Privacy
The short version: 243 of our 245 live tools never send your file anywhere. They read it with your browser’s own File API, process it on your device, and hand the result back. Closing the tab erases everything.
Your files
Tools marked “Runs in your browser” do all their work locally. Your file is never uploaded, never stored, and never seen by us. You can confirm this yourself: open your browser’s network inspector and watch — nothing leaves.
A small number of tools genuinely need a server, and each one says so on its own page. Those endpoints are stateless: the file is processed in memory and streamed straight back. Nothing is written to disk and nothing is retained once the response is sent.
What we collect
- No accounts. There is no sign-up, so there is no name, email or password to store.
- No file contents. Neither the files you process nor the text you paste is logged.
- Nothing we set ourselves. Your theme preference and anything a tool saves — a to-do list, a habit grid, a vault — are kept in your browser’s local storage and never sent to us. We set no cookies of our own. Google does set cookies, for the analytics and advertising described below.
Analytics
PocketToolz uses Google Analytics to count visits and see which tools get used. It records the page you are on, roughly where in the world you are, and what kind of device and browser you have. It sets a cookie to tell a returning visitor from a new one.
It does not see anything you put into a tool. The files you process, the text you paste, the passwords you generate and the notes you save never leave your browser, so there is nothing there for analytics to collect even in principle. Your IP address is truncated before it is stored.
In the UK, the EEA and Switzerland nothing is stored until you agree to it — the default is off, and you are asked first. Everywhere else it is on by default. You can opt out in any browser with Google’s opt-out add-on.
Why have it at all, on a site that makes a point of not tracking you: without some measure of which tools are used, the ones nobody opens get maintained forever and the ones people rely on get no attention. That is the trade, and it seemed more honest to name it than to pretend the site runs on instinct.
Advertising
PocketToolz uses Google AdSense for advertising. Google is a third-party vendor and uses cookies and similar identifiers to serve ads and to measure whether they were seen. Depending on your settings and where you are, those ads may be personalised using data Google has already collected about you elsewhere.
You can review and change what Google uses at My Ad Center, and opt out of personalised advertising from participating vendors at aboutads.info. In the UK and EEA you are asked for consent before any of this happens, and you can change that answer at any time from the link in the footer.
This is worth being blunt about, because it is the one exception to everything else on this page. The tools themselves still upload nothing — your files are read and processed by your own browser. The advertising is a separate matter, and it does involve a third party watching which pages you visit on this site.
Third parties
The site is served as static files and loads no tag managers, no external fonts and no session recording. The only third party involved is Google, for the analytics and advertising described above. Every tool page otherwise talks to our origin and nothing else.
Three tools are the exception and say so on their own pages: the currency converter fetches exchange rates, and the two thumbnail grabbers ask a video host for a public image. Those requests carry the address you typed and nothing about you.
Changes
Material changes to this policy will be reflected here. Because there are no accounts, we have no way to notify you individually — checking this page is the reliable route.
Questions about any of this can go to Umer Labs.