Privacy: your files stay on your device
Short version: Tooloat does not receive, store or look at your files or the text you work on. This page says exactly what runs where, what is saved in your browser and how you can check it yourself.
What happens to your files
Files you add are read into your browser memory and processed there. Results are created in memory and saved with your browser download. Nothing is sent to Tooloat or to any other server.
Ads
Tooloat is free because it shows ads from Google AdSense. Google and its partners may use cookies and similar technologies to show and measure ads, and to personalize them where the law and your choices allow it. Visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland are asked for their consent first.
Tooloat itself has no analytics and sets no cookies of its own. Your files are never passed to the ad code: they stay in this tab and are never uploaded.
To see how Google uses information from sites that show its ads, visit policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. To turn off personalized ads, visit myadcenter.google.com.
What is saved in your browser
This data never leaves your device, and clearing site data in your browser removes it.
- Your theme choice, sidebar state, favorite tools and recently used tools, in local storage.
- Cached copies of the app and its engines in Cache Storage, so tools keep working offline.
- AI model files, saved the first time you use the upscaler or the background remover.
Network use
The AI upscaler and the background remover download a neural network model from this site the first time you use them, and the model is cached afterwards. Only when the copy on this site cannot be reached is the same file fetched from Hugging Face, where it is published. Either way it is a plain download request that carries no file data. The ads load from the servers of Google. Like any download, these requests reveal your IP address to the servers that answer them. The tools need no network access after they have loaded.
Feedback you send
The feedback form is the one place where Tooloat receives something from you, and only when you press Send. It stores what you typed, the tool you picked and the language of the page; a bug report also includes your browser name and version. No IP address is kept with it.
If you add your email address, it is used only to answer you and is erased after a year at the latest. Messages are kept in Tooloat's database. To have yours deleted, write to hello@tooloat.com.
How to check for yourself
- Open your browser developer tools, go to the Network tab and run a conversion. You will see requests from the ads, but none that carries your file.
- Watch the counter in the top bar. It counts what the tools send, which stays at zero while you use them, and shows what the ads send separately. Only sending the feedback form adds to the tools count.
- Switch off your internet connection after a tool has loaded and keep using it.
- The published site sends a strict Content Security Policy, so the only scripts that can run are the ones this site loads itself, including the ad code from Google.
Hosting logs
Like any website, the server that delivers these pages may keep standard access logs, such as your IP address, the page requested and the time. Those logs cannot contain your files, because your files never reach the server.