Privacy policy

EasyToolbox is run by Muhammad Abdullah Awais, who is the controller for any personal data processed through this site under the UK GDPR and the EU GDPR. Questions about privacy can be sent to [email protected].

This site does not collect anything that identifies you. There are no accounts, no contact forms, no newsletter, no analytics and no advertising.

If you write to the contact address, your email address and your message are used only to answer you. They are not added to any list and are not shared with anyone.

Every tool runs entirely in your browser: the calculators, the word tools and the daily word game. The amounts, letters, guesses and anything else you type are processed on your own device and are never sent to our servers.

The noise meter uses the microphone only after you allow it in the browser. The sound is analysed in your browser to show a level; it is never recorded, stored or sent, and turning the meter off releases the microphone.

The word tools download word list files from this site, just as a page loads its fonts and scripts. Which file is fetched depends only on the word length; the letters you type stay on your device.

The online compass reads the motion sensors of a phone or tablet only after you start it, and asks for the device's position only if you choose your own position. Both are used on the device to show the direction and work out the magnetic declination. They are not stored, not sent to our servers and not added to the page's address. To find a position, your browser or operating system may use its own location service.

The site is served by Vercel Inc., a hosting provider. To deliver a page, its servers receive the technical data every browser sends with a request: the IP address, the address of the page requested, the date and time, and the browser's user agent. Vercel uses this data to deliver the site and to protect it against abuse, and keeps it for a limited period under its own policies.

The legal basis is Article 6(1)(f) GDPR, the legitimate interest in running a secure and working website. Vercel may process this data in the United States; such transfers are covered by the safeguards in Vercel's data processing terms, including the European Commission's standard contractual clauses.

Twenty-seven small entries may be kept in your browser's local storage, each one for a single setting or game.

• "theme" remembers whether you chose the light or dark theme.
• "language-suggestion-dismissed" remembers that you closed the suggestion to read a page in another language.
• "word-scramble-stats" holds your statistics for the daily word game: games played, streak, best time and the days you finished.
• "word-grid-stats" does the same for the word grid game, with its best score and daily grids.
• "click-speed-test-results" keeps your click speed test results: the best run for each input and length and your last ten runs.
• "padel-scoreboard-match" keeps the padel scoreboard's match: the format, any names you type, the points played and your display options.
• "spot-the-different-colour-results" keeps your spot the different colour results: the best game for each mode and option, your daily bests and your last ten games.
• "flag-quiz-results" keeps your flag quiz results: the best round for each set, mode, level and length, your daily bests and your last ten rounds.
• "who-is-most-likely-to-game" keeps the who is most likely to game you are playing: the names you type, the settings, the questions dealt and the answers, until you start a new game.
• "colour-memory-game-results" keeps your colour memory game results: the best game for each mode and viewing time, your daily bests and your last ten games.
• "dots-and-boxes-results" keeps your dots and boxes record against the computer: games won, drawn and lost for each level and board size, your widest win and your last ten games.
• "word-groups-game-results" keeps your word groups game results: each daily puzzle and practice board you finished, with its mistakes and hints, and the boards you are part way through.
• "stroop-test-results" keeps your Stroop test results: the best run for each set of settings and your last ten runs.
• "emoji-riddle-quiz-results" keeps your emoji riddle results per language: the first game of each day's ten and your last ten games, never the riddles of a quiz you make.
• "online-ruler-calibration" keeps the on-screen ruler's calibration for this screen: the size of a millimetre in page pixels, the zoom, the method and the date. Nothing you measure is kept.
• "word-score-counter-sheet" keeps the word score counter's score sheet: the edition, any names you type, the rules, every turn and the tiles left at the end, until you clear the sheet.
• "region-map-quiz-results" keeps your region map quiz results: the best round for each map and set of settings and your last ten rounds.
• "classroom-noise-meter-calibration" keeps the noise meter's calibration for this device: the sound level that the microphone's full scale stands for, the date and how it was set. Nothing the microphone hears is kept.
• "vocabulary-size-test-results" keeps your last ten vocabulary size test results: the test language and length, the estimate and its range and how many made-up words you ticked. No word of a test is kept.
• "tower-of-hanoi-results" keeps your Tower of Hanoi best results: for each number of discs and pegs, how often you solved the tower, your fewest moves and your fastest time.
• "riddles-with-answers-results" keeps your riddle of the day results per language: for each day, whether you solved it, the hints used and the wrong tries, which make your streak. Nothing you type is kept.
• "would-you-rather-game" keeps the would you rather game you are playing: the names you type, the settings, the dilemmas dealt and every pick, until you start a new game. Your own dilemmas are kept only as part of a game you start.
• "spirit-level-calibration" keeps the spirit level's calibration for this phone: what it reads on a truly level surface or edge, for each way of lying or standing, and the date. No reading is kept.
• "category-letter-game" keeps the category letter game in progress, for each language: the letters already drawn, your own columns, the score sheet with the names you typed, the scoring chosen and the sound switch.
• "proverb-quiz-results" keeps your proverb quiz results per language: the first game of each day's ten proverbs and your last ten games. Nothing you type is kept.
• "binary-puzzle" keeps your binary puzzle results: the best time for each size and level, the puzzles of the day you solved and the puzzle in progress with its time and the help used. A grid typed into the solver is not kept.
• "reaction-time-test-results" keeps your reaction time test results: the best average for each mode and your last ten runs.

None is a cookie, none is ever sent to us, and none identifies you. The game statistics stay in that browser only, until you clear them. The cookie policy lists all twenty-seven in detail.

Fonts are served from this site's own domain, so loading a page makes no request to Google or any other font service. Source links on the tool pages lead to the websites they cite, whose own privacy policies apply once you follow them.

Other websites may show a tool from this site in a frame. It then works exactly as it does here: what you type stays in your browser, the site that shows it receives none of it, and our host receives the same technical request data as for any page. That site's own privacy policy covers the rest of its page.

You have the right to access your personal data, to have it corrected or erased, to restrict or object to its processing, and to receive it in a portable format (Articles 15 to 21 GDPR). Because this site stores nothing about you, most requests will find no data to act on; server logs held by the hosting provider are the exception.

You may also complain to a data protection authority: in the United Kingdom the Information Commissioner's Office, and in the European Union the authority of the country where you live or work.

If analytics, advertising or any other processing is ever added, this policy will be updated before it goes live, and anything that needs your consent will ask for it first.