Privacy

LabGopher is run by Gopher Labs, LLC. This page says what we keep, why, and for how long. Questions go to [email protected].

When you visit

• Our pages set no cookies and run no advertising scripts. To count visits they load Cloudflare Web Analytics (not for visitors in the EU), which sets no cookies and keeps nothing in your browser: it reports the page viewed, the page that linked to it, the browser, device type and country, and how fast the page loaded. Cloudflare says it doesn't fingerprint visitors or follow them across sites.
• Your browser keeps your light or dark theme choice, your ship-to and ships-from choices, and the table's page length and order for this site. Until you close the tab, it also remembers which listings you opened, so their rows stay marked. None of this is sent to us.
• When you create a share link, we store the page address it points to, with your filters. To limit how many links one visitor can make, we count share-link requests by the address they came from for up to a day.
• Our server logs each page request, with the address it came from, to keep the site running. The logs are kept for up to a year.
• If a page fails on our server, the error report goes to our own error tracker, on our own server, without your address, cookies or anything you sent. Reports are kept 90 days.
• Cloudflare delivers our pages and may set a security cookie if it needs to check that your browser isn't a bot.
• When you follow a link to eBay, eBay's privacy policy and cookies apply. The link tells eBay that it came from LabGopher, so the eBay Partner Network can pay us a commission on a purchase; it carries nothing about you.

When you follow a link to LabGopher from one of our other sites, its address carries a short code that names the link, such as ?via=ngnv. We add one to that day's count for the code, pass the code to eBay with that page's links to listings, so eBay's reports to us say which link led to a sale, and remove it from the address bar. Nothing else is kept with the count.

Listings from eBay

• We copy listings of servers and workstations from eBay's search, through eBay's API: the title, price, shipping, condition, format and where the item ships from, and then the whole listing: its item specifics, description and the addresses of its photos.
• While a listing is live we keep the copy eBay's API gave us, which names the seller. Once the listing has ended we delete that copy and keep only what we read from it, such as the CPU, memory, storage, price and dates, as history. A listing that isn't confirmed on eBay for 26 hours leaves the site.
• When eBay tells us that a seller has deleted their eBay account, we end that seller's listings here at once and delete our copies of them. We keep only a one-way keyed code of the seller's name and ID, so that their listings are never copied again.
• To read the specifications in a listing, we send its title, item specifics and description to an AI model through OpenRouter, with data collection by the model's provider turned off. We send no seller name or ID from eBay's data, no price and no link.
• To grade prices we keep records of completed sales, from eBay's API and from Trawl, an archive of eBay sales: the item, its price and dates. We keep a seller only as a one-way keyed code, and nothing that identifies a buyer.

Who handles data for us

Cloudflare delivers the site and counts visits, as above. DigitalOcean hosts our server and its database. OpenRouter passes listing text to the AI model, as above. We sell no data and share none with anyone else.

Changes

We change this page when what we keep changes. It was last changed on 9 November 2026.