Privacy

What the tools do with your input

Every tool on this site runs in your browser, in the page itself or in a Web Worker served from this site. Text, files and images you paste or drop in are processed on your device and are not uploaded. The site has no backend: it is a set of static files. The tools' own code never sends your input anywhere, and the analytics code never receives it either. The ad scripts described under Advertising below are third-party code that runs in the same page, so the page's Content Security Policy has to allow them to load from, and connect to, other sites. If you paste something sensitive, use a browser with the ads blocked or the Chrome extension, which has no ads.

Input is kept in memory while the tab is open and is gone when you close or reload it. Nothing you type is written to cookies, local storage or any other storage.

What is stored in your browser

• Your theme choice (System, Light or Dark), under the key devkit-theme in local storage.
• Google Analytics cookies named _ga and _ga_MB05P51MGV on this site's domain, holding a random visitor id and session details (see Analytics below).
• If you opt out: devkit-analytics-optout in local storage, so the opt-out is remembered.

The ad network may also store cookies or local storage of its own in your browser (see Advertising below). Clear your site data to remove them.

Analytics

This site counts visits with Google Analytics 4. It is on by default and loads on every page, unless your browser sends Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control or you have opted out; then the analytics code is not loaded at all.

What is collected

• Pages viewed: the page address without anything after the path (no query or fragment) and the page title.
• Which tool page was opened and its category, and that Copy output was pressed (not what was copied).
• Clicks on Add to Chrome buttons and on links to other sites (the other site's domain only).
• Whether a search in the tools directory found anything (not what you searched for).
• What Google Analytics records with any visit: approximate location (country and city, worked out from your IP address, which Google Analytics 4 does not store), device type, browser, operating system, screen size, language and the referring site.
• A random visitor id in the first-party _ga cookie and session details in _ga_MB05P51MGV, so returning visits can be counted.

What is never collected

• Anything you type or paste into a tool, and any tool output.
• Files you open or drop in, and their names.
• Search text from the tools directory.
• Advertising data: Google signals, ad storage and ad personalisation are turned off.

Retention and processor

Google Analytics keeps event data for the retention period set in its admin settings (2 months by default and at most 14 months). Google processes the data on behalf of this site; see how Google uses information from sites that use its services.

How to opt out

• Use “Opt out of analytics” in the footer of any page. It stops tracking at once, deletes the _ga cookies for this site and is remembered on later visits in this browser.
• Turn on Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control in your browser: this site then never loads Google Analytics.
• Block cookies for this site, or use a content blocker.
• Install Google's Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, which works on every site.

Advertising

This site shows ads from Monetag (an ad network) through its Multitag script, which can show several formats: banners, pop-ups or pop-unders that open another tab, and requests to allow push notifications. The ad script loads from Monetag's servers when a page opens, so Monetag and the advertisers it works with receive your IP address, browser and device details, and the address of the page you are on, and may set cookies or other identifiers to choose and measure ads. Their data practices are set by Monetag's privacy policy, not by this page. This site does not send Monetag anything you type or paste, but because the ad scripts run in the page, treat the site as you would any ad-supported page.

To avoid ads, use a content blocker, block third-party cookies, or use the Chrome extension, which has no ads. Ads are not shown in the extension.

What we do not do

• No accounts, sign-in or payments.
• No analytics other than Google Analytics as described above, and no tracking pixels or fingerprinting by this site.
• No cookies set by this site other than the Google Analytics ones.
• No scripts, fonts or images loaded from other sites, except Google Analytics and the ads described above.

Things to know

• Whoever hosts the files may keep ordinary server logs, such as the address you requested and your IP address. This site does not receive or read them.
• Some tools can show an image or link you choose to open. The Markdown preview blocks remote images for this reason, because loading an image from another server tells that server your IP address.
• Copying a result puts it on your clipboard. Other programs on your device can read the clipboard, so be careful with secrets.
• The DevKit Forge browser extension is a separate product with its own permissions and its own privacy policy. This page is about the website only.

Changes

If this page changes, the date at the top changes with it.