Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how Tinker Tools handles information when you use the service. The short version is that most tools process data locally in your browser and do not send your files or text to our servers.

1. Local Processing

Most of our 70+ tools run entirely on the client side. When you format text, merge PDFs, resize images, or use a calculator, the work is typically performed by JavaScript running in your browser. We do not receive or store the underlying tool inputs on an application server.

2. Features That Call Third Parties

A small number of tools need external services to function. The URL Shortener sends the URL you enter to TinyURL to create a short link. The Currency Converter requests exchange-rate data from a public API. Those requests are limited to the data needed for the feature itself.

3. Advertising and Consent

We use Google AdSense to show advertising. When ad serving is enabled, visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland are shown a consent message provided by Google's certified consent management platform (Google Privacy & messaging) before personalized ads are served. Your choices in that message control how Google and its ad partners may use cookies and ad identifiers on this site, and you can change your choice at any time through the ad privacy controls Google provides.

4. Analytics

We do not currently run first-party analytics tags in this deployment. If that changes later, this page will be updated before the change is treated as part of the normal site behavior.

5. Cookies, Local Storage, and Fonts

We do not set first-party tracking cookies for normal tool usage. When advertising is enabled, Google and its partners may set third-party ad cookies subject to the consent configuration described above, and Google's consent message stores your consent choice. We also load Material Symbols from Google Fonts, which means your browser requests font assets directly from Google's servers.

6. Data Retention and Security

Because most tool inputs never reach our servers, there is usually no server-side copy for us to retain. We still take reasonable steps to protect the site itself, including HTTPS delivery and dependency updates, but browser-local processing is the main privacy control for user content.

7. International Use

The site is delivered through globally distributed infrastructure and some third-party services we rely on may process requests in multiple countries. If we enable advertising or additional integrations later, the relevant providers may process data outside your home country.

8. Your Rights

If you have a privacy question, correction request, or deletion request related to data that may have been processed through one of our third-party integrations, contact us through the contact page. We will respond based on the information available to us and the applicable law.

9. Changes to This Policy

We may revise this page as the product changes. When we do, we update the date at the top of the page.