Privacy

This page describes how website-checker.org handles information about its visitors, what happens to the values you enter into the website checker, and which outside services are involved. It covers the tool itself, the guides and every other page on website-checker.org.

In brief

• No registration, logins or passwords.
• Values you enter into the website checker are not uploaded to website-checker.org.
• Cookies come from our analytics services and from advertising networks.
• Privacy requests are answered by email at [email protected].

Who we are

The website website-checker.org is operated under the name Website Checker and offers a free website checker. Questions about personal data go to the site's operator, who reads the mailbox [email protected]. Where data protection law uses the term “controller”, it refers to this operator.

The data involved

Website Checker has no registration, no logins and no paid plans, so there is no account data to collect. The tool does its work locally, on your device, and its inputs and results are not uploaded to website-checker.org. Below we list the technical data that is collected through server logs, analytics and advertising, and why.

Data that stays on your device

The website checker remembers your recent inputs and settings using your browser's local storage. This data stays on your device; it is not sent to website-checker.org and we cannot see it. To erase it, clear the site data for website-checker.org in your browser. Private or incognito windows discard it automatically.

Cookies, pixels and browser storage

Cookies, and similar technologies such as pixels and local storage, let a site or the services it uses keep small pieces of data in your browser. Website Checker does not set cookies of its own for the website checker to work; the cookies you may see come from the analytics and advertising services described below. You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings; the website checker will keep working, although ads may become less relevant.

Server logs

Our web server automatically records each request in standard log files. An entry contains your IP address, your browser's user agent, the time of the request, the page requested and the referring page. We rely on them for security, troubleshooting and simple statistics.

How we measure use of the site

We use Yandex Metrica and Microsoft Clarity to understand how the site is used. Typical data points are the pages you open, the time spent on them, where you came from, your browser and device, and a rough location. We also use their session replay and heatmap features, which show clicks, scrolling and pointer movement, to see which parts of the website checker are hard to use.

The data is handled by Yandex and Microsoft in line with their own privacy terms, and both use cookies to tell visits apart. Our interest is in patterns across visits, not in identifying any particular person.

Advertising partners

We show advertising on website-checker.org to cover the cost of running the site. The networks that deliver ads may place cookies or use device information so that they can select ads, limit repeats and report on how ads perform.

Where permitted, networks may personalise ads using your browsing on other sites as well as this one. We do not give advertisers the values you enter into the website checker; ad networks handle the data they collect under their own policies. Industry opt-out pages such as optout.aboutads.info and youronlinechoices.eu let you turn off interest-based ads from participating networks.

Legal grounds under the GDPR

Where the GDPR or the UK GDPR applies, processing relies on these grounds:

• Consent where the law requires it for analytics and advertising technologies.
• Legitimate interests in running a secure, working, ad-funded website, weighed against your rights.
• Your request: local storage is used only to provide the feature you are using.
• Replying to you: if you write to us, we process your email to deal with it.

International transfers

Data collected through website-checker.org may be processed by service providers located in other countries. The level of legal protection there may differ from that of your home country.

Data retention

Data is kept no longer than necessary, and server logs are removed after a limited period unless an entry is needed to deal with a security incident. Emails you send us are kept as long as needed to deal with your message and any follow-up. Analytics and advertising providers keep data according to their own retention schedules. Entries in local storage remain until you clear them.

What you can ask us

If European or UK data protection law applies to you, you may access, rectify and erase your data, restrict or object to processing, and receive it in a portable form. Where we rely on consent, you can withdraw it at any time.

As there are no accounts, it helps if you tell us your IP address and roughly when you visited, so we can locate any relevant records. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority, in particular where you live or work. Requests can be sent to [email protected].

California (CCPA/CPRA)

Under California law (the CCPA as amended by the CPRA), you may request to know and to delete or correct personal information about you, and you may opt out of its sale or sharing. We do not sell personal information in the ordinary sense: we never hand over visitor data for money. Advertising cookies, though, can amount to “sharing” for cross-context behavioural advertising as California law defines it.

Opting out is possible through the Global Privacy Control setting in supporting browsers, through your browser's cookie settings, or by writing to us. Using these rights will not change how the site works for you.

Security

The site is served over HTTPS, so traffic between your browser and website-checker.org is encrypted. Only those who run the site can access the server and its logs. No system is perfectly secure; still, your tool inputs stay on your device.

Use by children

website-checker.org is not directed to children under 13, or under 16 where European rules apply. We do not knowingly collect data from children. Parents or guardians who think a child has contacted us can ask us to delete that information.

Changes

We update this page when our practices change, for example when we add or remove a service. The version published here is always the current one.

Questions

If you have a question about this policy or want to make a privacy request, email [email protected]. Please describe your request clearly, and we will reply within the time limits set by applicable law.