Privacy policy
Last updated 2026-06-30
The short version
SnapTools is built to need as little of your data as possible. The content you paste into a tool is processed in your browser or discarded immediately after processing — we never store it. We measure how often tools are used with an anonymous identifier that cannot be linked back to you or tracked across days. We don't use tracking cookies and we don't sell data to anyone.
What we do not collect
- Your tool input or output. Text, files, JSON, keys — whatever you put into a tool — is never stored. Some tools run entirely in your browser, so the input never leaves your device; others process it on our server only to compute the result, which is returned to you and then discarded. Either way, we never keep it.
- Your name, email, or account — unless you choose to create an account for the API, in which case we store only what's needed to operate it (see below).
Anonymous usage measurement
To understand which tools are useful (and to show a public "used N times" count), we record a single event when a tool page opens. Each event contains only:
- the tool's name (e.g.
json-formatter), - the time it happened, and
- an anonymous visitor hash.
The visitor hash is computed as SHA-256(daily secret + IP address +
browser user agent). We never store your IP address or user agent
— only the resulting hash. The daily secret rotates every 24 hours, so the same visitor produces
a different hash each day and cannot be followed across days. This lets us count roughly how many
distinct people used a tool without identifying anyone. Because this method does not store
personal data or set an identifying cookie, no cookie-consent banner is required.
Local storage on your device
We use your browser's local storage for functional preferences only — your theme (light/dark), whether the sidebar is collapsed, and a short list of recently used tools shown on the home page. This data stays on your device, is never sent to us, and is not used to identify you.
Third parties
These are only present when we explicitly turn them on:
- Advertising. If ads are enabled, Google AdSense may set its own cookies and process data under Google's privacy policy.
- Affiliate links. Some pages may link to partner products through our
/goredirect. We log only that a labelled link was clicked (the partner and the originating tool) — never who clicked it. - API accounts & payments. If you create an API account, we store your email and a one-way hash of your API key. Payment processing, when available, is handled by our payment provider; we do not store card details.
Your rights
Because the usage data we hold is anonymous, we generally cannot connect it to an individual to action a request against it. If you hold an API account, you can access, correct, or delete it by contacting us. The data controller for SnapTools is [[FILL IN: registered company legal name]].
Contact
Questions about this policy? Get in touch.