Terms of use

Last updated 30 August 2026.

Running Shoe Tracker compares running-shoe prices across retailers. Using the site means accepting what is below. It is free, it is run by one person, and it comes with no promises about the prices it shows.

What this site is

We collect publicly listed prices and stock from retailers' own websites and put them side by side. We do not sell shoes. Every purchase is a transaction between you and that retailer, on their site, under their terms and their returns policy. We are not a party to it and cannot help with an order, a refund, or a delivery.

Prices are a snapshot, not a quote

We also get things wrong in the ordinary way software does: a shoe matched to the wrong model, a size read incorrectly, a store missed entirely. We fix what we find, but the site is offered as-is, with no warranty of accuracy, availability or fitness for any purpose, to the fullest extent the law allows. Nothing here is advice about what to buy.

Your account

You do not need an account to read this site. Use this site for its purpose. No scraping or bulk downloading our pages. No attempt to break, overload, or probe the service. Nothing illegal. We suspend or delete an account that does these things, and you can delete yours at any time by asking.

Privacy

There is no advertising, no third-party analytics and no tracking pixels on this site, and nothing it stores is sold or shared for marketing.

If you never sign in

We keep nothing about you on the server. Your fit — gender, shoe size and width — is remembered in cookies in your own browser so prices stay quoted for your feet between visits. Clearing your cookies erases them; they go nowhere but to this site.

If you sign in

• Your email address. The one thing an account requires, because a price alert is an email. You give it either by signing in with Google — from which we receive your email address and display name, and store only the email — or by asking for a sign-in link sent to an address you type.
• Your fit profile: gender, size and width, if you fill them in.
• The shoes you follow and any price alert you set on one, including the price you asked to be told about.
• Which alerts we have already sent you, so the same news is never mailed twice.
• Any store request you submit, and which requests you upvote.

Asking for a sign-in link also stores the address, a one-way hash of the link's secret (never the link itself), its expiry, and the IP address the request came from. The IP is what stops one person using the form to mail sign-in links at strangers; it is the only place this site records an IP address, and those rows are deleted automatically after 30 days.

An outbound click through to a retailer is recorded: which offer, which store, the price shown at that moment, the time, and — only if you are signed in — that it was you. No IP address is stored with a click. Clicking out while signed out records no name and no address: the row carries the random cookie number described below, so we can tell one shopper's ten clicks from ten shoppers' one.

We keep our own count of how many times each kind of page was served on each day, plus a second one for the search engines and monitors that request it. Each count also carries one word for the kind of place the visit came from — a search engine's name, our own site, a link we published, or “other” for everything we do not recognise. The word is all we keep: the address you came from is not stored. We store no address and no name with either count.

To tell how many people that was — rather than how many requests — we set one small cookie of our own, named st_v. It holds a random number and nothing else: not your name, not your address, and nothing worked out from either, so it cannot tell us who you are. It lets us count a person who reads three pages as one visitor instead of three, and see whether anyone comes back. It lasts 13 months, it is sent to nobody outside this site, and no script on any page can read it. When you sign in we join it to your account, so we can tell what share of the people who arrive go on to make one; until then it is joined to nothing, and if you never sign in it stays that way. Deleting your account unjoins it again. Clearing your cookies clears it, and you arrive as a stranger again.

Beside that number we keep a few plain facts about the browser, so we can tell a reader from a robot without running any script at all: whether it came back, whether it loaded our stylesheet, whether it ever sent us a form, and whether the User-Agent it announced looks like a crawler. That is the whole list. We do not record which pages you personally read — page counts are per kind of page, for everybody together, as above.

Who else sees it

• Google — if you choose to sign in with Google.
• Resend — delivers our email, so it handles the address we send to and the contents of the message.
• netcup, in Germany, where the server and its database live, and Cloudflare, which fronts the domain's DNS and forwards mail sent to it. Like any web server, ours writes ordinary access logs.

Nobody else. We do not sell, rent or trade personal data, and there are no advertising or analytics trackers on any page — nothing from another company measures what you do here. The st_v cookie above is ours alone and is never sent anywhere.

How long we keep it, and what you can ask for

Your account and everything attached to it stays until you ask us to delete it; sign-in link rows go after 30 days automatically. The day-by-day detail behind the st_v cookie is kept for 90 days. Price history is about shoes, not people, and is kept indefinitely. Write to us and we will send you what we hold, correct it, export it, or delete your account outright — in the UK or EU those are your rights of access, correction, portability, erasure and objection, and you exercise all of them the same way. Removing a price alert stops the alerts. If what we store changes materially we update the date at the top and email the address on your account.

The site is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly keep data about them.

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