What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and provide information to website owners.

How We Use Cookies

Toolit uses cookies only for essential functionality:

Essential Cookies

• Session Storage: Temporary storage for your tool preferences and settings during your visit
• Local Storage: Saving your preferred tool settings (like compression quality) between visits
• Theme Preferences: Remembering your dark/light mode preference

Analytics Cookies

• Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to understand general website usage patterns (which tools are popular, page views). These cookies track website navigation only — never your file processing activity.
• What we don't track: Your actual files, file names, file content, or any file processing activity
• No social media cookies: We don't use social media tracking pixels

Advertising Cookies

• Google AdSense: We use Google AdSense to display relevant, non-intrusive advertisements that help keep our tools free
• Personalization: With your consent, ads may be personalized based on your interests and browsing patterns
• Performance measurement: We measure ad performance to ensure quality and relevance
• Cross-site optimization: Google may use data across sites to improve ad targeting and user experience
• Your control: You can opt out of personalized advertising at any time through our cookie preferences or Google's Ad Settings

Privacy by Design

All file processing happens in your browser and we never see your files. While we use Google Analytics to understand website usage and Google AdSense for advertising, these only track page navigation and ad interactions — your actual files and file processing activities are never tracked or uploaded. Your file data never leaves your device.

GDPR & CCPA Compliance

• Consent-based: Non-essential cookies require your explicit consent
• Granular control: Choose which cookie types to accept
• Easy withdrawal: Change preferences anytime through our cookie banner
• Regional compliance: Additional protections for EU (GDPR) and California (CCPA) users
• Data minimization: We only collect what's necessary for functionality

Managing Cookies

You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed.

However, if you disable essential cookies, some features of Toolit may not function properly, such as:

• Remembering your tool preferences
• Saving your theme choice
• Maintaining settings between visits

Browser Settings

Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings preferences. To find out more about cookies, including how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy, please contact us at support@toolit.org.

Changes to This Policy

We may update our Cookie Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Cookie Policy on this page and updating the "Last updated" date.