Cookies & Tracking Technologies Policy for UtilityToolsBox.com
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This Cookies Policy explains what cookies and similar tracking technologies are, how UtilityToolsBox.com (“we,” “us,” or “our”) uses them, and your choices regarding their use. This policy is designed to be compliant with privacy laws like the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the ePrivacy Directive, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA/CPRA), and others globally.
1. What Are Cookies and Similar Technologies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device (computer, tablet, or mobile) when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and provide information to the site owners.
We also use similar tracking technologies, such as:
- Local Storage: A technology that allows a website to store information locally on your device. Like cookies, this data persists even after you close your browser. We use local storage to power our tools entirely within your browser.
- Web Beacons: Small graphic images (also known as “pixel tags” or “clear GIFs”) that are included in our web pages and emails to understand usage patterns.
2. How We Use These Technologies
Because all of our document conversion tools run locally within your web browser, we do not use cookies or local storage to track your files or document data. Your files never leave your computer and are not sent to our servers.
We use cookies and local storage for the following essential purposes:
| Category | Purpose | How We Use It (Client-Side Focus) |
|---|---|---|
| Strictly Necessary | Essential for the website to function and cannot be switched off. | We use local storage to temporarily hold your file data only on your device while you are using a tool. This allows the conversion process to happen without uploading anything to us. Without this, the tools cannot work. |
| Performance / Analytics | Helps us understand how visitors interact with our website. | We use cookies from third-party services (like Google Analytics) to collect anonymous data about page visits, traffic sources, and general user behavior. This helps us improve our site’s design and performance. This data is aggregated and does not identify you personally. |
| Functionality | Enables enhanced functionality and personalization. | These may remember your preferences (like language or tool settings) to make your future visits more convenient. |
| Targeting / Advertising | Used by third-party advertisers to build a profile of your interests. | We may use advertising cookies to show you relevant ads on other sites based on your visit to our website. |
3. Your Consent and Choices (Your Privacy Controls)
a) Consent Management:
When you first visit our website, you will see a cookie consent banner. You can accept all, reject all non-essential cookies, or customize your preferences. Essential cookies (those required for the tools to function) cannot be disabled.
b) Managing Cookies in Your Browser:
You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, please note that if you block or delete essential cookies and local storage data, our tools will not be able to function.
The steps to manage cookies are different for each browser. Here are links to popular browsers:
c) Global Opt-Outs:
- Advertising: You can opt out of personalized advertising from many major ad networks by visiting the YourAdChoices page (US) or Your Online Choices (EU).
- Analytics: You can install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on to prevent your data from being used by Google Analytics.
4. Data Security and Client-Side Processing
Your privacy and data security are our top priorities. Since our tools are designed to run 100% locally in your browser:
- Your Files Are Yours Alone: The document you select for conversion is processed entirely on your own device. It is never transmitted over the internet to our servers or any third-party servers.
- No File Tracking: We do not and cannot use cookies to track the contents, names, or metadata of the files you process with our tools.
5. Third-Party Cookies
We may allow third-party service providers to place cookies on your device for the performance and advertising purposes described above. These third parties (e.g., Google Analytics, ad networks) have their own privacy policies.
6. Changes to This Cookies Policy
We may update this Cookies Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new policy on this page and updating the “Last Updated” date.
7. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Cookies Policy, please contact us at:
Email: info@utilitytoolsbox.com