Cookies Policy
1. What Are Cookies?
This Cookie Policy applies across all 20+ tools currently published on TheToolsBank.
Cookies are small text files that a website stores on your device — computer, tablet, or phone — when you visit it. They let the site remember information about your visit, such as your preferences, login state, or how you interact with different pages, so your next visit (or even the rest of your current session) can be faster and more useful. Most web browsers accept cookies automatically, but you can change your browser settings to decline them or to alert you when a site tries to set one. Some sites also use similar technologies alongside cookies, such as local storage and pixels, which serve related purposes like remembering settings or measuring how a page was viewed.
2. Types of Cookies We Use
- Strictly Necessary: Required for the site's core functions to work at all — things like remembering your theme (light/dark mode), keeping you signed in between pages, and maintaining basic security protections. These cannot be switched off without breaking core functionality.
- Performance / Analytics: Help us understand how visitors use the site — which tools are popular, how people navigate between pages, and where errors or slow-downs occur — so we can prioritize fixes and improvements. This data is generally aggregated and doesn't identify you personally.
- Functional: Remember choices you've made, such as your preferred unit system in a calculator, your last-used settings in a tool, or your cookie consent decision itself, so you don't have to re-enter them on every visit.
- Targeting / Advertising: Used, where applicable, to make any advertising you see more relevant to your interests and to measure the effectiveness of ad campaigns. We only use these where explicitly enabled, and you can opt out through your cookie preferences or your browser settings.
3. Third-Party Cookies
Some cookies on our site are set by third-party service providers we work with rather than by us directly — for example, analytics providers that help us understand site traffic, or hosting and content-delivery services that help pages load reliably. These third parties may collect information about your browsing across different sites according to their own privacy policies, which we encourage you to review separately. We select these providers carefully and only use services that are appropriate for a tool site that processes data locally in your browser wherever possible.
4. Your Choices
You're in control of cookies on your device. Most browsers let you view, delete, and block cookies through their settings menu — the exact steps vary by browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge each handle this slightly differently), but searching "manage cookies" in your browser's help menu will get you there quickly. Keep in mind that blocking strictly necessary cookies may prevent parts of the site — like theme preferences or saved tool settings — from working as expected. You can also typically manage cookie preferences through any consent banner shown when you first visit the site.
5. How Long Cookies Last
Cookies fall into two general categories based on how long they stick around. Session cookies are temporary and are deleted automatically when you close your browser — they're typically used for things like keeping you logged in during a single visit. Persistent cookies remain on your device for a set period (which varies by cookie, often ranging from a few days to a couple of years) or until you delete them manually, and are typically used to remember preferences across visits, such as your cookie consent choice or display settings.
6. Updates to This Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in the cookies we use, legal requirements, or how our site operates. Any changes will be posted on this page, and we encourage you to review it periodically. If you have questions about this policy or how we use cookies, you're welcome to reach out through our contact page.