About This Policy
This policy describes our intended privacy practices. The information actually collected, stored, shared, and retained depends on the tools and third-party services enabled on the website. Privacy disclosures do not replace any consent controls required by law.
We encourage you to read this policy before using our services. Visiting the website or continuing to use a tool does not replace consent where applicable law requires an affirmative choice before particular data processing or non-essential storage begins.
1. Information We Collect
Tool Square provides free online tools and converters, including image conversion, image compression, image resizing, Base64 encoding and decoding, text analysis, developer utilities, and unit conversions. The information collected depends on the features you use and the services enabled on our website.
Information you voluntarily provide may include your name, email address, and message when you contact us, submit feedback, report an issue, or suggest a feature.
When you visit the website, our hosting provider, security services, or other configured services may process technical information such as your IP address, browser type, device and operating system information, requested URLs, referring pages, timestamps, and error or server logs.
If analytics or advertising services are enabled, those services may collect information about page views, interactions, approximate location derived from an IP address, advertising identifiers, cookie identifiers, and other usage information, subject to the applicable service configuration and your privacy choices.
Please do not submit confidential, sensitive, or personally identifiable information unless it is necessary for your request and you understand how the relevant feature handles that information.
2. How We Use Information
We may use information to operate the website, provide requested tools and conversions, respond to inquiries, maintain security, detect misuse, diagnose errors, improve performance, and develop new features.
Contact details and messages may be used to respond to your inquiry or follow up on an issue you reported.
Technical and usage information may be used to understand website performance, identify broken features, measure usage, prevent abuse, and improve the visitor experience.
Where enabled and permitted, analytics services may help us understand how visitors use Tool Square, while advertising services may use relevant information to deliver, limit, personalize, or measure advertisements.
We do not intentionally use information submitted to a tool for unrelated purposes. Any additional processing, storage, or sharing depends on the specific feature, the services involved, and applicable law.
3. Tools, Converters, and File Processing
Tool Square offers or may introduce image tools, Base64 tools, text tools, developer tools, and converters covering categories such as length, weight, area, volume, temperature, speed, data, pressure, energy, power, frequency, and angle.
Processing methods can differ between tools. Some operations may run entirely in your browser, while others may send input or files to our servers or a third-party service. Please check the relevant tool's instructions and actual processing behavior before using it.
For browser-based processing, the input may remain on your device for the operation itself, although your browser, hosting environment, analytics services, or other integrations may still process separate technical information. We do not claim that every operation is exclusively local unless the relevant implementation confirms this.
For server-based or third-party processing, the submitted content may be transmitted to and processed by the relevant systems to provide the requested functionality. Any storage, logging, backup, or deletion depends on the implementation and the service provider's practices.
Do not upload confidential business documents, credentials, private photographs, personal records, or other sensitive content unless you have assessed the relevant tool's data-handling practices and are comfortable proceeding.
Unless a particular tool explicitly explains its retention and deletion behavior, do not assume that uploaded content is automatically deleted, never logged, or never stored.
We aim to process tool inputs only as necessary to provide the requested operation and maintain the service. Actual data flows and retention practices must be assessed for each relevant tool and its underlying implementation.
5. Google AdSense and Third-Party Advertising
Tool Square may display advertisements through Google AdSense or other advertising providers to support the operation, maintenance, and development of our free tools and converters. Advertising services are used only when enabled on the website.
Google and other advertising providers may use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, device identifiers, or similar technologies to serve advertisements, limit the frequency of advertisements, detect invalid traffic, measure advertising performance, and support other advertising functions.
Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies to serve advertisements based on a visitor's previous visits to this website or other websites. Depending on the visitor's location, consent choices, advertising settings, and available ad-serving options, advertisements may be personalized, non-personalized, or limited.
Personalized advertising may involve the use of information about a visitor's interests, browsing activity, or interactions with advertising. The availability and use of such information depend on the advertising provider, applicable consent, and the settings configured for the service.
Third-party advertising providers may collect or receive information directly through their technologies when advertisements are displayed or interacted with. Their processing is governed by their own policies and applicable privacy requirements.
Where required by applicable law or Google's publisher policies, we will provide appropriate disclosures and obtain valid consent for relevant cookies, local storage, and the collection, sharing, or use of personal information for advertising purposes before the affected processing takes place.
For visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, Google publisher products have specific consent requirements. Where applicable, we will use a Google-certified consent management platform that meets the relevant integration requirements when serving personalized advertisements.
We do not promise that refusing advertising consent will eliminate every advertisement. Depending on the applicable rules and available ad-serving options, non-personalized or limited advertisements may still be possible.
You can learn more about Google's advertising and privacy practices using the following resources.
6. Hosting, Analytics, and Other Third-Party Services
To operate Tool Square, we may use hosting providers, content delivery networks, security services, monitoring tools, analytics providers, email services, and advertising partners.
These providers may process technical information or other data as needed to perform their services. The specific providers and information involved depend on the services actually integrated into our website.
For example, if our hosting provider processes server logs, those logs may contain IP addresses, request details, timestamps, or error information. If an analytics service is enabled, it may process website usage and interaction information.
Third-party services may process information in different countries, subject to their service terms, privacy policies, contractual arrangements, and applicable law.
Our website may also link to external websites. Visiting an external website is subject to that website's own terms and privacy practices. We do not control how external websites collect or use information.
8. Data Retention and Security
We retain personal information and technical records only for as long as reasonably necessary for the relevant purpose, subject to applicable legal, security, operational, and recordkeeping requirements.
Retention periods may differ for contact messages, hosting and security logs, analytics information, consent records, and content submitted to individual tools.
Files and other tool inputs may be handled differently depending on whether processing takes place in your browser, on our servers, or through a third-party service. We will not claim a universal retention period unless it has been established for the relevant processing flow.
We use reasonable measures intended to protect information against unauthorized access, alteration, loss, misuse, or disclosure. However, no method of transmission, storage, or electronic processing can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
If you have a question about the retention or deletion of information associated with a particular tool or inquiry, please contact us using the details provided below.
9. Your Privacy Rights and Choices
Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have the right to request access to, correction of, or deletion of certain personal information, restrict or object to certain processing, receive information about how your data is used, or withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
Some laws also provide rights relating to targeted advertising, the sale or sharing of personal information, or the use of certain profiling technologies. These rights and their exceptions vary by jurisdiction.
You may manage available cookie and advertising preferences through the consent controls provided on our website, your browser settings, or the relevant advertising provider's privacy controls.
If you previously gave consent and wish to withdraw it, use the website's privacy or cookie settings where available. We will make reasonable efforts to ensure that applicable consent changes are communicated to the relevant services.
To submit a privacy request, contact us at the email address below. Please describe your request and provide enough information for us to identify the relevant information without sending unnecessary sensitive data. We may need to verify your identity where legally permitted or required.
We will review and respond to privacy requests in accordance with applicable law. Certain information may need to be retained where a legal obligation, legitimate security need, or other lawful exception applies.
10. International Visitors and Applicable Laws
Tool Square may be accessible to visitors from different countries. Depending on your location and the services used, information may be processed in a country other than the one in which you live.
Privacy, data protection, and cookie requirements vary by jurisdiction. We aim to apply the disclosures, consent controls, and privacy choices required for the visitors and processing activities covered by applicable law.
Where required, we will obtain consent before relevant non-essential storage or advertising-related processing begins. We will also respect applicable withdrawal, objection, access, deletion, and other privacy rights, subject to lawful exceptions.
Nothing in this policy is intended to remove or limit a right that cannot lawfully be excluded under the laws applicable to you.
11. Children's Privacy
Tool Square provides general-purpose tools and converters and is not specifically directed at children.
We do not knowingly seek to collect personal information from children in violation of applicable law. If you believe a child has provided personal information to us inappropriately, please contact us so that we can investigate and take appropriate action where required.
12. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy when our tools, data practices, third-party integrations, advertising arrangements, or legal obligations change.
The revised policy will be published on this page, and the Last Updated date will be changed when appropriate.
If a change requires additional notice or consent under applicable law, we will take the required steps rather than relying solely on publication of the revised policy.
We encourage you to review this page periodically to stay informed about our privacy practices.
13. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, want to request access to or deletion of personal information, need clarification about file processing, or want to exercise an applicable privacy right, please contact us.
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