Privacy & Cookies

Your inputs stay on your device

Every calculator and file tool on ToolsNow runs as JavaScript inside your own browser. The numbers you type, the PDFs you merge and the images you resize are processed in the page and are not uploaded to ToolsNow. There is no upload step, so there is no copy of your inputs for us to store, log, share or lose.

To be precise about what that does and does not cover: files and text entered into local-processing tools stay in your browser. Some pages still make separate network requests for website assets, advertising and analytics, described below. Those requests do not include files or text entered into local tools. The one tool that does send something is the currency converter, covered next.

The one exception: the currency converter

Every tool on this site processes your input locally, with a single exception. Live exchange rates cannot be calculated on your device, so the currency converter requests them from ExchangeRate-API (exchangerate-api.com). Loading that tool means your IP address reaches that service, in the same way it would if you visited any website.

The amounts you type are still never transmitted. Only a request for the current rate table is made; the conversion itself happens in your browser once the rates arrive. Rates are cached in your browser for 12 hours so repeat visits usually make no request at all.

This exception is stated on the currency converter itself as well as here, rather than only in this policy. It is the only tool that sends anything derived from your use of it to a third party; every other tool processes your input in the page. Separately from the tools, as noted above, the pages themselves load advertising and analytics — those requests never carry your files or the text you enter.

What is stored in your browser

We store your light/dark theme choice in your browser’s local storage under the key “toolsnow-theme”, and a cached copy of the currency exchange-rate table under keys beginning “toolsnow-rates”. Neither leaves your device, and clearing your browser data removes both.

Tool inputs are not saved. Reloading a page clears everything you entered.

Analytics

Two analytics services are used, and they behave differently, so it is worth separating them.

Cloudflare Web Analytics counts page views without cookies. It does not fingerprint visitors or track them across sites — it records aggregate information such as which pages were viewed and roughly where traffic came from.

Google Analytics 4 is also loaded on every page. Unlike the Cloudflare beacon, it can set cookies (names beginning with _ga) and assign a randomly generated client identifier so that repeat visits from the same browser can be recognised. It records page views, referrers, approximate location derived from IP address, and device and browser characteristics. IP addresses are used to derive that approximate location and, per Google’s documentation, are not stored or logged by Google Analytics 4.

Whether those cookies are set at all depends on where you are, and that decision is made before any Google script runs — see “Consent” below.

What it does not receive is anything you put into a tool. No file, no file name, no pasted text, no extracted colour, no calculation input and no result is ever sent to analytics. Analytics sees which page was opened, not what you did on it.

You can opt out of Google Analytics across all sites with Google’s browser add-on at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout, or by blocking the cookies in your browser settings.

Advertising & cookies

ToolsNow is funded by Google AdSense. The AdSense script is loaded by Google from pagead2.googlesyndication.com on every page. Google and its partners may set cookies and read device identifiers to select, serve, cap and measure ads. How Google uses information from sites that use its services is described at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

You can control ad personalization at any time — independently of this site — through Google’s own settings at myadcenter.google.com, and through your browser’s cookie controls.

Consent

In the EEA, the UK and Switzerland, cookies and similar storage that are not strictly necessary require your consent before they are set. ToolsNow handles this with Google Consent Mode v2, which runs before any Google script on the page and tells those scripts what they are allowed to do.

For visitors in those regions, advertising storage, advertising personalisation, use of data for advertising and analytics storage all start as denied. That is the state before anything loads, not a preference applied afterwards — so no advertising or analytics cookie is set unless and until you agree to it.

The choice itself is collected by Google’s own Consent Management Platform, which is certified under the IAB Transparency and Consent Framework and appears as a message the first time you visit. Declining is a supported outcome, not a dead end: the tools all work either way, because none of them ever needed the cookies. While that message is still being rolled out, the default simply remains denied for those regions, which is the more restrictive of the two states.

Outside those regions the defaults start as granted, which is why visitors elsewhere are not shown a message. If you would rather not be measured regardless of where you are, the Google Analytics opt-out add-on and your browser’s cookie settings both apply everywhere.

Who receives data, and where

Three third parties are involved in running this site. Cloudflare hosts it and provides the cookie-free analytics described above; as the host, it processes the technical request data (such as IP address) that any web server necessarily receives. Google provides both advertising and Google Analytics. ExchangeRate-API provides exchange rates, and only for visitors who open the currency converter.

These providers operate globally, so serving a page may involve processing outside your own country, including in the United States. We do not sell your data, and we do not share tool inputs with anyone, because we never receive them.

ToolsNow itself keeps no user accounts, no databases and no server-side logs of tool activity, so there is nothing on our side with a retention period. Retention of advertising and hosting data is governed by Google’s and Cloudflare’s own policies.

Your choices and rights

Because ToolsNow holds no personal data of its own, there is no account to access, correct or delete. The controls that do apply are: clearing your browser storage removes the theme preference and the cached exchange rates; your browser’s cookie settings govern both the advertising and the Google Analytics cookies; Google’s ad settings govern personalization; and Google’s opt-out add-on disables Analytics entirely.

Depending on where you live, you may have rights under laws such as the UK GDPR, the EU GDPR or the CCPA to access, correct, delete or object to the processing of personal data held about you. For the data handled by Google and Cloudflare as part of advertising and hosting, those requests are best directed to them, since they hold it. You are welcome to contact us first and we will point you to the right place.

Changes & contact

ToolsNow is an independent, self-funded project rather than a registered company; there is no corporate entity, office address or data-protection officer to list. Questions about this policy can be sent through the contact page.

If this policy changes materially, the updated version will be published on this page with a new date below.