Privacy
What Gear Muster keeps
The carriage check keeps nothing: your answers travel in the page address and are not stored.
A muster board keeps what you type into it (board name, boat names, the check answers and the two dates) under its private code, until you delete it or nobody opens it for 400 days. Database backups taken nightly and when the site is updated hold copies for a limited time.
No name, email, phone or location is asked for. To limit abuse, the number of new boards per day is counted against a salted hash of your network address, deleted after two days. The site uses a session cookie and a security token cookie for its forms. It sets no tracking or advertising cookies and uses no analytics services. The only outside script any page loads is the adengine.us banner on the public pages, described under Advertising; it also counts one page view per page as a daily total.
Advertising
The home page, the carriage check, the rules and sources page and the pricing page show one banner ad from AdEngine (adengine.us), the small ad network run by WeldonPC, the company behind this site. For now the ads are for WeldonPC's own services. Muster boards, boats, trip musters and Muster Cards, the page that opens a board, this page and the terms show no ad.
To show an ad, your browser loads a script from adengine.us, asks it for one banner, loads the banner image, and reports once that the page was viewed and once that the banner was shown. Like any website, adengine.us receives your IP address, your browser type and the address of this site with those requests. It is told the site, not the page: the answers in a carriage-check address stay here.
- No cookies, no profile. AdEngine sets no cookies, gives you no ID and does not track you from site to site.
- How your IP address is used. adengine.us looks up the approximate city for your IP address in a location database kept on its own server (nothing is sent to anyone else), so that ads meant for one area are shown only there. It also uses the address to count each ad view or click only once and to leave out robots and WeldonPC's own office traffic. The address is not stored with the counts; the temporary entries made from it expire within six hours and are cleared from the server within two days.
- What is kept. Daily totals only: page views for this site, and views and clicks for each ad. The adengine.us web server also keeps a standard access log (IP address, time, address requested, referring site, browser) for security; it is deleted on a rolling schedule.
- Clicking an ad passes through adengine.us, which counts the click, and then opens the advertiser's site, which has its own privacy policy.
- Nothing about you is sold or shared.
Questions
Questions about this page or what Gear Muster keeps: Contact WeldonPC (weldonpc.com/contact), the company behind this site.
Last updated 31 October 2026 (a Questions section was added; the Advertising section was added 17 October 2026).