Last updated: 1 November 2026 · tooldu.com
What your browser remembers
tooldu.com uses cookies and browser storage to keep accounts signed in, apply access windows, remember your choices and help tools work. File processing stays local, but account and access checks contact the server. Essential storage is used for those functions. Optional analytics and advertising are off until you choose them, subject to the Tag Manager explanation below.
Trials and signed-in sessions
You get 30 minutes to try the tools that need access, without creating an account. Once that window ends, wait at least one hour before starting another. Opening an eligible trial tool starts the next window. Time keeps running while you are away. The nine free tools have no session timer. Clearing cookies or browser data does not restart the timer on the same public IP. People on the same Wi-Fi or shared network may therefore share a window and its waiting period. We cannot reliably recognise an unregistered visitor who changes both cookies and public IP. Signed-in accounts use their own access rules. The trial cookie is an opaque identifier, not a document or a payment record. Member sessions and administrator sessions use separate cookies. On HTTPS these session cookies are Secure and HttpOnly; member/trial cookies use SameSite=Lax and administrator cookies use SameSite=Strict. A short-lived HttpOnly credentials cookie delivers a new Google-created account’s site password and recovery code to its own session. It expires after ten minutes and is cleared after collection. Signing out revokes the relevant session. Password reset revokes member sessions and does not restart an account’s trial clock.
Local work, preferences and cached files
Previews and work in progress use browser memory. Continuing into another tool may make a local IndexedDB copy that expires after ten minutes and is deleted when consumed. Expiry is checked on use, and old handoffs are cleaned during later handoffs. Recent tools, favourites, cookie choices and cached public assets have separate storage. The recent list shows the last 30 days; its stored record remains until updated or cleared. Closing a tab does not necessarily clear all browser storage.
Optional analytics
With analytics consent, first-party reports use random visitor and session identifiers. Google Analytics may also use cookies such as _ga when configured and allowed. Exact Google cookie names and lifetimes depend on its settings. The site’s optional measurement respects detected Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control. Withdrawing analytics consent removes the local first-party visitor and session identifiers and stops future collection by that feature.
Tag Manager and advertising
A configured standard Google Tag Manager container may load before you choose, with analytics and advertising storage denied. Loading the container can still contact Google. Its tags must respect consent, and its noscript iframe may contact Google when JavaScript is disabled. Built-in AdSense ads require advertising consent and an allowed country; they are suppressed in the EEA, UK, Switzerland and unknown regions without a certified CMP. The choice panel below is not a Google-certified CMP. Advertising cookies and settings, where used, are also governed by Google and other participating vendors.
Changing your choices
Use the controls below to change optional choices for this browser. Essential storage cannot be switched off here because it supports the service. Already loaded tags cannot always be unloaded, and third-party cookies may remain until you remove them in browser settings. Reload after changing choices if you want a fresh page session. Another browser or device has its own preferences. Blocking or clearing essential storage can sign you out or remove locally saved work; it does not cancel a server-held cooldown or reset a member trial.
Storage used by the site
| Storage | Identifier | Purpose | Usual lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trial cookie | __Host-appsfry_trial | Essential access identifier | Up to 180 days; window and cooldown timing is separate |
| Member session | __Host-appsfry_member | Keeps a member signed in | Up to 7 days, or earlier revocation |
| Administrator session | __Host-appsfry_session | Restricted administrator login | Up to 12 hours, or earlier revocation |
| Cookie choices | appsfry-optional-cookies | Remembers optional categories | Until changed or browser data is cleared |
| Tool shortcuts | appsfry-tool-shortcuts-v1 | Recent tools and chosen favourites | Recent list: 30 days; stored record until updated or cleared |
| Local file handoff | IndexedDB | Passes a file to another tool on this device | 10-minute expiry; deleted when consumed |
| Public asset cache | Cache Storage / service worker | Stores public code and assets | Until updated, evicted or cleared |
| Optional traffic identifiers | appsfry-traffic-visitor / appsfry-traffic-session | Consented first-party traffic reports | Visitor: 30 days; a new session after 30 minutes of inactivity |
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