Privacy policy

Taper Trends (https://www.tapertrends.com) is an independent editorial site publishing guides to taper fade haircuts and men's hairstyles. For anything in this policy, reach us at hello@tapertrends.com.

Nothing, in the ordinary course of reading. The site is served as static files. There is no registration, no comment system, and no newsletter sign-up, so we hold no reader list.

The one exception is email. The contact form and the write-for-us form do not transmit anything to us on their own — they open a draft in your own email client with the details you typed, and nothing reaches us until you press send. If you do email us, we keep that message and your address for as long as it takes to deal with it, and we do not add you to any list or pass it to anyone else.

The haircut tools run entirely in your browser. What you type into the tip calculator or the barber brief generator stays on your device. A barber brief share link carries only your haircut choices, in the part of the address after the # sign, which browsers never send to a server. It never includes your notes or a reference photo, so nothing you type freely ends up in a link.

The face shape detector measures your face from a photo or camera image. That processing happens on your device, using a model downloaded from our own site. The image is not uploaded to us or to any third party, it is not stored, and it is discarded when you leave the page. The camera is only switched on after you allow it in your browser and is switched off as soon as the photo is taken. Because we never receive the image or any measurement of your face, we hold no biometric data about you.

The virtual haircut try-on works the same way: the camera feed or photo is processed on your device to place a hairstyle over it, nothing is uploaded or stored, and the camera turns off when you stop it or leave the page. A snapshot is only created if you tap the button, and it is saved or shared only where you choose.

Some tools remember a result for the others in your browser's local storage, so you aren't asked twice: your face shape, hair type, taper quiz result, and the tip percentage you last used. This is functional storage on your device, not a tracking cookie. It is never sent to us, it expires after 90 days, and every tool shows where it used a saved value so you can change it. You can delete it at any time with the “Clear my saved tool results” link under each tool, or by clearing your browser's site data.

The site is hosted on Vercel, which records standard request logs — IP address, user agent, the page requested and the time — for security and to keep the service running. Those logs belong to the hosting layer; we do not build reader profiles from them.

We use Google AdSense to show ads. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to Taper Trends and other sites on the internet.

You can opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. You can also opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalised advertising at aboutads.info. Google's own practices are described in its policy for partner sites.

Ads on this site are labelled and kept clear of the menus, buttons and links used to move around the site. An ad will never be placed where a navigation control belongs.

If you are in the UK, EU or a jurisdiction with comparable law, you may ask what personal data we hold about you, ask for it to be corrected, or ask for it to be deleted. Since the only personal data we hold is email you chose to send us, that usually means deleting a message thread. Write to hello@tapertrends.com and we will act within 30 days.

Some of our guides cover children's haircuts and are written for the parent or guardian doing the booking. The site is not directed at children and we do not knowingly collect personal data from anyone under 13.

Our guides cite outside sources — dermatology associations, clipper manufacturers, trade bodies — so you can check a claim yourself. Those links are marked as external and lead to the page described. Once you leave Taper Trends, the privacy policy of the site you land on applies, not this one.

If this policy changes in substance, the effective date at the top of the page changes with it. Continued use of the site after that date means the revised policy applies.