Privacy policy

Last updated: 10 August 2026

The Tools Whale is built so that we cannot see your files. Every tool on this site runs entirely in your browser, on your own device. This page explains exactly what that means, what little data exists at all, and what happens to it.

Your files never leave your device

When you process an image, video, PDF or audio file here, the file is opened and processed locally by your browser. The AI models are downloaded to your browser and run on your hardware. There is no upload step and no server of ours that could receive your files.

You do not have to take our word for it: open your browser’s DevTools, watch the Network tab, and process a file: there are no uploads. After the first visit, most tools also work fully offline.

• We never receive, store, view or analyse the files you process.
• We never receive the results either. Downloads are generated on your device.
• No account is needed, so there is no profile of you to keep.

What is stored on your device

The site stores a few things in your own browser, purely to make the tools work well. None of it identifies you, and none of it is transmitted to us:

• Preferences: your theme choice (light/dark) and a graphics setting, kept in your browser’s local storage.
• Model files: the open-source AI models are cached by your browser after the first download, so tools load fast and work offline.
• Offline cache: a service worker caches the site’s own pages and scripts so it keeps working without a connection.

You can remove all of it at any time by clearing this site’s data in your browser settings.

Analytics and tracking

This site uses two tools to count page views. They differ in a way worth spelling out, because one of them sets cookies and the other does not.

Vercel Web Analytics is cookieless. It sets no cookies, builds no profile of you and does not follow you to other sites. Visitors are counted using a hash derived from the incoming request, and that hash is discarded after 24 hours — so it cannot recognise someone who visits tomorrow as someone who visited today.

Google Analytics does set cookies: first-party cookies named _ga and _ga_<id>, which persist for up to two years and let Google recognise a returning browser. This is real tracking in a way the tool above is not, which is why it is named here rather than folded into a general sentence about analytics. You can opt out of Google Analytics on every site you visit with Google’s opt-out browser add-on.

Between them, a page view records the page address and the referring link, an approximate location worked out from your IP address (country, region and city), and your device type, operating system and browser. That is the entire list.

Both measure pages, never files. What you open in a tool is not tracked, and could not be even if we wanted it to be, because it never reaches us.

The contact form

The one place we collect personal data is the contact form, and only when you choose to use it. If you send us a message we receive the email address you enter and the text of your message, and we store them in a private message log so we can read and respond.

• We use this information only to handle your message.
• We do not sell it, share it or add it to any mailing list.
• Messages are kept only as long as needed to deal with them, and are deleted afterwards.

Hosting and server logs

The site’s pages and model files are served by a hosting provider. Like almost all web hosting, the provider may keep standard, short-lived access logs (such as IP address and requested page) for security and reliability. These logs relate to page requests only. Your files are never part of any request.

Advertising

To keep the tools free, this site may show ads served by Google AdSense. When ads are shown, the following applies:

• Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this and other websites.
• Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on your visits to this site and other sites on the internet.
• You can opt out of personalised advertising in Google Ads Settings, and read how Google uses data from partner sites at google.com/policies/technologies/partner-sites.
• Visitors in the EEA, UK and Switzerland are shown a consent prompt before any advertising cookies are set, and can decline them.

Ads never affect how the tools work: your files are processed on your device regardless, and are never shared with any advertising partner.

Your choices

• Use every tool without creating an account or providing any personal data.
• Clear this site’s data in your browser to remove all stored preferences and caches.
• Opt out of personalised ads via the links above, or decline consent where prompted.
• Ask us to delete any message you sent through the contact form.

Children

This site is a general-audience tool site. It does not knowingly collect personal data from anyone, including children. The contact form is the only collection point, and it is optional.

Changes to this policy

If we change how the site handles data, we will update this page and its “last updated” date. Because the architecture is local-first, the core promise (your files never leave your device) is not something we plan to change.

Contact

Questions about this policy? Reach us through the contact page.