Privacy Policy

Overview

Last updated: January 2026

TeckForge ("we", "our", "the site") provides free browser-based document, developer, file, image, audio and PDF tools. This policy explains what happens to your data when you use the site.

How the tools work

Nearly every tool on TeckForge runs entirely inside your own browser tab using JavaScript and WebAssembly. When you choose a file, type text, or upload a document into one of these tools, that data is processed locally on your device and is never transmitted to TeckForge's servers or anywhere else. Closing or refreshing the tab clears everything you were working on. A small number of clearly-labeled developer tools work differently — see "Tools that call an external service" below.

Information we do not collect

• We do not require accounts, sign-ups or logins.
• We do not store the files, text or documents you process with any tool.
• We do not sell or share your content with third parties, because we never receive it.

Information that may be collected automatically

Like most websites, our hosting provider and any analytics we enable may automatically log standard technical information such as your IP address, browser type, device type, referring page, and pages visited, for the purposes of security, performance monitoring and understanding aggregate usage. This is separate from — and unrelated to — the content you process inside the tools themselves.

Cookies and local storage

TeckForge itself does not use cookies to track you across other sites. Some tools may use your browser's temporary in-memory state to keep a working session (for example, remembering your last input while you adjust an option) — this data lives only in that browser tab and is discarded when you leave or refresh the page. If advertising is enabled on TeckForge (see "Advertising" below), the ad provider sets its own cookies as described in that section.

Tools that call an external service

Almost every tool on TeckForge processes everything locally in your browser and never sends your input anywhere. The exceptions, each disclosed on its own page, are:

• A handful of tools built for testing your own APIs — the API Tester, GraphQL Playground, SOAP Tester and the cURL converter — send a request to whatever URL you type in, because that is the point of the tool. We do not see, log, or store those requests or responses.
• The Text to Speech tool sends your text to a free public translation API (MyMemory) only if you choose a "speak in" language different from your text's original language, in order to translate it before reading it aloud. If you don't choose a translation language, your text is never sent anywhere.

Outside of these disclosed cases, and unless you enter a third-party address yourself, nothing you type or upload leaves your device.

Advertising

TeckForge may show ads served by Google AdSense to help keep every tool free to use. Google and its advertising partners use cookies and similar technologies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this or other websites, and to measure ad performance. You can learn more about how Google uses this data, and adjust your ad personalization settings, at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites and adssettings.google.com.

Visitors in the UK, European Economic Area, and Switzerland are shown a cookie-consent notice before any ad-related cookies are set, and can choose to see non-personalized ads instead. You can also opt out of personalized advertising more broadly through optout.aboutads.info or your browser's cookie settings, though doing so does not stop ads from being shown — only their personalization.

Third-party libraries

Tool functionality is powered by open-source JavaScript libraries loaded from a public content delivery network (CDN) at fixed versions. These libraries run locally in your browser once loaded; the CDN provider may log basic request metadata (such as your IP address) as part of normal web infrastructure operation, in the same way any website asset request works.

Children's privacy

TeckForge is a general-purpose utility site not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time to reflect changes to the site. The "Last updated" date above will reflect the most recent revision.

Contact

Questions about this policy can be sent to info@teckforge.com.