Privacy Policy

We collect information in the following ways:

Information You Provide

When you use our tools, any data you input is processed to provide the requested functionality. In most cases, this data is processed entirely in your browser and is not sent to our servers. For tools that require server-side processing, data is transmitted securely and is not stored permanently unless explicitly noted.

Automatically Collected Information

When you access our Services, we automatically collect certain information, including:

• Usage Information: We collect information about how you interact with our Services, such as the tools you use, the features you access, and the time spent on our website.
• Device Information: We collect information about the device you use to access our Services, including the hardware model, operating system, browser type, and IP address.
• Analytics Data: We use analytics services to help us understand how users engage with our Services. These services may use cookies and similar technologies to collect information about your use of our website.

We use cookies and similar technologies to enhance your experience on our website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device when you visit a website. We use cookies for the following purposes:

• Essential Cookies: These cookies are necessary for the basic functionality of our website. They enable you to navigate our site and use its features.
• Analytical/Performance Cookies: These cookies allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and see how visitors move around our website. This helps us improve the way our website works.
• Functionality Cookies: These cookies are used to recognize you when you return to our website. They allow us to remember your preferences and provide enhanced features.

You can control and manage cookies in various ways. Most web browsers allow you to manage your cookie preferences. You can set your browser to refuse cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. However, if you disable cookies, some of the features of our Services may not function properly.

We fund 1tool.dev by displaying advertising alongside our tools and articles. Advertising on this site is served by Google AdSense, a service operated by Google LLC, under our publisher account ca-pub-3876439942738268. This section explains what that means for your data.

Google AdSense and the DoubleClick Cookie

Google is a third-party vendor and uses cookies to serve ads on this site. Google may use the DoubleClick DART cookie, which enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to 1tool.dev and other sites on the Internet. Google's use of advertising cookies is governed by its own policies, not ours.

Third-Party Vendors and Ad Networks

Google and its certified advertising partners may use cookies, web beacons and similar technologies to collect information such as your IP address, browser and device type, the pages you view on this site, and how you interact with the ads shown to you. This information is used to select, deliver and measure the advertising you see.

We do not control, and have no access to, the cookies set by these third parties. Their collection and use of your information is governed by their own privacy policies, which we encourage you to read.

Personalized and Non-Personalized Ads

Personalized ads are selected using information collected about your browsing over time. Non-personalized ads are based only on the content of the page you are reading and your approximate location. In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, personalized advertising is served only where you have given consent, and you may choose non-personalized advertising instead.

How to Opt Out of Personalized Advertising

You can limit or disable personalized advertising through the following controls:

• Google Ads Settings — review and turn off ad personalization on services operated by Google.
• Google Advertising Technologies — read how Google uses cookies and data in advertising across the web.
• Digital Advertising Alliance Consumer Choice — opt out of interest-based advertising from many participating vendors at once.

Opting out does not remove advertising from this site; it only makes the ads you see less relevant to you. Opt-out preferences are themselves stored in a cookie, so clearing your browser data or switching to a different browser or device will reset them.

Managing Your Consent Choices

Where consent is required, we collect it through a Google-certified consent management platform before any advertising or analytics cookies are set. You can change or withdraw your consent at any time through the privacy settings control that platform provides.

If you are browsing from a region where consent is not legally required, you will not see a consent banner, but the opt-out controls listed above remain available to you.

We use Google Analytics 4, provided by Google LLC, to understand how our tools are used. Our measurement ID is G-WSMPVMG3QW. Analytics helps us see which tools are worth improving and which pages are failing our visitors.

What Google Analytics Collects

• The pages you visit on this site and how long you spend on them
• Your device type, operating system, browser and screen size
• Your approximate location, derived from a truncated IP address — we do not receive your full IP address
• The site or search engine that referred you to us

We do not use analytics data to identify you personally, and we do not combine it with advertising profiles. Analytics reports are aggregated.

• Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on — prevents Google Analytics from collecting data about your visits to any website.

In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, analytics cookies are set only after you consent to them. Until you do, analytics storage stays disabled.

We use the information we collect for various purposes, including:

• To provide, maintain, and improve our Services
• To develop new tools and features
• To understand and analyze how you use our Services
• To communicate with you about updates, security alerts, and support
• To detect, prevent, and address technical issues
• To comply with legal obligations

We do not sell your personal information to third parties.

We take the security of your data seriously and implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your information. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

We keep information only for as long as it serves the purpose it was collected for. In practice that means:

• Tool input: text, files and values you enter into our tools are processed in your browser and are never stored by us
• Analytics: event data is retained for the period configured in our Google Analytics property, after which Google deletes it
• Server logs: access logs are kept briefly for security and abuse prevention, then discarded
• Correspondence: emails you send us are kept for as long as needed to resolve your request

Where a legal obligation requires a longer period, we keep the information for that period and no longer.

If you are located in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, the GDPR and equivalent legislation give you the following rights over your personal data:

• Right of access: you can ask us to confirm whether we process your personal data and to provide a copy of it
• Right to rectification: you can ask us to correct personal data that is inaccurate or incomplete
• Right to erasure: you can ask us to delete your personal data where there is no overriding reason for us to keep it
• Right to restriction: you can ask us to limit how we use your personal data while a dispute about it is resolved
• Right to data portability: you can ask to receive your personal data in a structured, machine-readable format
• Right to object: you can object to processing based on our legitimate interests, and to processing for direct marketing purposes at any time
• Right to withdraw consent: where we rely on your consent, you can withdraw it at any time without affecting the lawfulness of processing carried out before you did so

Legal Bases for Processing

We rely on your consent (Article 6(1)(a)) for advertising and analytics cookies, and on our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f)) for keeping the site secure, preventing abuse and maintaining the availability of our Services. Our tools themselves require no account and no personal data.

To exercise any of these rights, email [email protected]. We will respond within one month, and there is no charge for making a request.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your national data protection supervisory authority.

If you are a California resident, the California Consumer Privacy Act as amended by the CPRA gives you the following rights:

• Right to know: you can request the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you, and the purposes for collecting it
• Right to delete: you can request that we delete personal information we have collected from you
• Right to correct: you can request that we correct inaccurate personal information
• Right to opt out: you can opt out of the "sale" or "sharing" of your personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising
• Right to limit: you can limit our use and disclosure of sensitive personal information
• Right to non-discrimination: we will not deny you service, charge you a different price or provide a lower quality of service because you exercised any of these rights

We do not sell your personal information for money. However, serving personalized advertising may constitute "sharing" for cross-context behavioral advertising under the CPRA. You can opt out using the consent controls on this site or the Google Ads Settings link above.

To exercise any of these rights, email [email protected].

Our Services are not directed to children under 13 years of age, as defined by the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), or under 16 in the European Economic Area. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

This site is not designated as child-directed and our advertising tags are not configured for child-directed treatment. We do not target advertising to children.

If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with personal information, email [email protected] and we will delete it within 30 days.