Cookie Policy
Which cookies this site can set, who sets them, what each one is for, and how to refuse them without breaking the tools.
What a cookie actually is
A cookie is a small text file a website asks your browser to keep, and which the browser sends back on later requests. Related technologies — local storage and session storage — work the same way from your point of view: they are small values kept by the browser, on your device. This page uses "cookie" to cover all of them, because the practical question is the same either way: what is stored, by whom, and for how long.
ToolQivo uses very few. Nothing you type into a tool is ever stored in one — that content never leaves your device at all, as explained in the privacy policy.
Cookies this site sets
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| toolqivo-session | Strictly necessary. Keeps a request valid across page loads and carries the token that protects forms from cross-site request forgery. | 2 hours |
| XSRF-TOKEN | Strictly necessary. The readable half of the same anti-forgery check, used by the contact form. | 2 hours |
| tq-favorites | Preference, stored in local storage rather than a cookie. Remembers which tools you starred so the Favourites page can rebuild the list. Never sent to us. | Until you clear it |
| tq-… | Preference, stored in local storage. A few tools remember what you last set up — the model list in the LLM cost calculator, for example — so you do not have to rebuild it on every visit. Never sent to us. | Until you clear it |
None of these identify you. There is no account system, no visitor ID and no cross-site identifier set by us. Deleting them costs you nothing but your starred tools and a few saved tool settings.
Cookies our partners set
Two third parties can set cookies on this site. Both are named here so you can make a decision about them individually.
Google AdSense
Advertising is what pays for the site. Where ads are enabled, Google and its certified partners act as
third-party vendors and may set cookies of their own — including the DoubleClick and
IDE cookies and, historically, the DART cookie — to:
- limit how many times you are shown the same advertisement;
- measure whether an ad was seen, and whether it was clicked;
- detect invalid traffic and click fraud;
- serve ads based on your previous visits to this and other websites, where you have permitted that.
You can turn off personalised advertising at any time in Google My Ad Center, or opt out of a large number of vendors at once at optout.aboutads.info and Your Online Choices in Europe. Turning personalisation off does not remove the ads; it makes them less relevant, and the site stays free either way. Google's own description of what it collects is in the Google Privacy & Terms partner-sites notice.
Analytics
We measure which tools get used so we know what to improve. That measurement is deliberately coarse: aggregate page views, approximate country, device type and referring site. Where a third-party analytics provider is enabled it may set its own cookie to tell a returning visit from a new one. It never receives anything you typed into a tool, because that content never leaves your browser.
Alongside it we keep a counter of our own — how many times each tool page was opened and used, totalled per day, with no identifier and no IP address attached. A daily total cannot be tied back to a person, so it does not require a cookie at all.
Consent, and what happens in the EEA and the UK
Strictly necessary cookies are set because the site cannot function securely without them; no law requires consent for those. Everything else — advertising and analytics cookies — is subject to consent where the law requires it.
If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, and advertising is enabled on the page you are reading, a consent message from our advertising partner's certified consent management platform is shown before any advertising or analytics cookie is set. That is required of us by the GDPR and by Google's EU User Consent Policy, and the choice you make there is recorded and honoured.
You may accept, refuse, or change your mind later — the consent message can be reopened from the link our advertising partner places with the ads. Refusing leaves every tool on this site fully working; you will simply see non-personalised advertising instead of personalised advertising.
How to control cookies yourself
Your browser is the final authority, and it can block or delete anything described above:
- Chrome — Settings › Privacy and security › Third-party cookies.
- Firefox — Settings › Privacy & Security › Cookies and Site Data.
- Safari — Settings › Privacy › Manage Website Data.
- Edge — Settings › Cookies and site permissions.
Blocking all cookies will log you out of most of the web, but it will not break this site: the tools themselves need no cookies to run. Blocking only third-party cookies stops the advertising ones while leaving the site's own session cookie in place.
Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control
We do not track you across other websites, so a Do Not Track header changes nothing about what we do. A Global Privacy Control signal, where your browser sends one, is treated as an opt-out of personalised advertising.
Changes to this policy
If we add a partner that sets a cookie, this page is updated before it goes live and the date at the top changes with it. Questions about anything on this page go to toolqivo@gmail.com.