Your data stays in your browser, unless a tool says otherwise.
The short version: most tools run entirely in your browser and send nothing. A few need the network, and this page says exactly what they do.
what we never collect
- Input from the in-browser tools. Those run locally, with no server involved.
- Personal information. There are no accounts, forms, or sign ups.
- Behavioral tracking. There are no advertising pixels, no fingerprinting, and no cross-site tracking.
- Tracking cookies. The browser storage we use stays on your device for your own preferences, never to follow you.
tools that use the network
Three tools cannot work without the network. Each one says so on its own page, and none of this data is logged, sold, or kept beyond what the tool needs to function.
Sends requests directly from your browser to the URL you enter. Nothing routes through us.
Queries public resolver and IP information services to answer your lookup.
Receives requests on our server and stores them in a temporary store for up to 24 hours so you can read them, then deletes them.
Hosting
The site is served as static files. Like any web host, the hosting provider may keep standard server logs (IP address, requested page, user agent) for security and operations. These logs are not used to identify or profile you and contain none of your tool data.
Browser storage
toolhq keeps a few things in your browser's local storage, on your device, to make the site nicer to use: your light or dark theme, your chosen language, and a short list of tools you recently opened so you can find them again. This list holds only tool names and dates, never anything you typed into a tool. The recently used list is optional and asks for your consent the first time; you can decline, and declining clears it. None of this storage is sent to us or to anyone else, and there are no tracking cookies.
Page counts
The site counts page views using the host's cookieless analytics. The count is anonymous and aggregate: which pages were visited and roughly from which country. There are no tracking cookies, no persistent identifiers, no fingerprinting, and no way to follow a visitor across sites or sessions. Nothing you type into a tool is ever part of it. It exists so we know which tools are useful and which need work.
Live chat
The site includes a live chat widget provided by Tawk.to, a third-party service. When a page loads, the widget loads a script from Tawk.to and sets its own cookies so it can run. If you open a chat, the messages you send and basic technical details about your visit are processed by Tawk.to under their own privacy policy. This is the one part of the site that involves a third party by default; nothing you type into a tool is ever passed to it, and you are never required to use the chat.
Advertising and changes
There are no ads today. If ads are added later they will sit in clearly separated slots, never inside a tool, and this policy will be updated first. Any change to this policy is visible in the site's public source history.