Privacy.

The tools run in your browser. The text, numbers and files you type, paste or drop into a tool are processed on your device and are not uploaded to our servers. PDF and image tools, for example, read and write your files in the browser tab; close the tab and they are gone.

A few conveniences are kept in your browser's localStorage and are never sent to our servers:

• your favorite tools and recently used tools,
• your recent tool searches,
• the salary figures you enter in the HR and payroll tools, so the other HR tools can pre-fill them,
• which "how this works" tips you have dismissed.

Clearing your browser's site data for ToolDai removes all of them.

We count tool events (a tool was viewed, run, copied from, downloaded from, or hit an error) so we can see which tools are useful and which ones are broken. Each event stores only the tool's name, the kind of event and the time. We do not record the values you enter into tools, and these events are not linked to your account.

When you search, we log the search text (up to 120 characters), whether you searched news or tools, and how many results came back, so we can improve search. Search logs are not linked to your account either.

An account is optional; you only need one to vote, bookmark, comment or post. If you sign up with a username and password, we store your username, display name and a bcrypt hash of your password, never the password itself.

If you sign in with GitHub or Google, we store the provider's account ID, your name, your profile picture, and your email address if the provider confirms it is verified. We ask GitHub only for your public profile and email, and Google only for your basic profile and email.

You can also add a short bio. Your username, name, picture, bio and reputation are shown on your public profile.

Signing in sets one cookie, kd_session: a random session ID that keeps you logged in for up to 30 days. It is HTTP-only (scripts on the page cannot read it) and is deleted when you log out. While you sign in with GitHub or Google, a second short-lived cookie holds a security token for about 10 minutes. We use no advertising cookies. The only third-party cookies are Google Analytics, and only if you allow them (below).

When you are signed in, we store:

• your upvotes and downvotes on posts and comments,
• your bookmarks,
• the comments and posts you write, which other readers can see,
• your reading history (which posts you opened, and when), used for your history page and your reading streak,
• your feed preferences: the tags you follow or block and the sources you hide,
• the squads you join, and the notifications we send you,
• feedback you send about a tool, together with your account if you were signed in.

You can change your feed preferences in settings. Moderators can hide posts and suspend accounts that break the rules; those actions are logged.

When AI features are switched on, ToolDai uses Anthropic's API (Claude) to write short summaries of posts and a daily briefing. For a summary we send the post's title, its link and its text: for news articles, the text published on the outlet's own page; for long posts written on ToolDai, the post itself. The daily briefing is built from the titles and summaries of recent posts in public sources.

We never send your account details, votes, bookmarks, comments, reading history or anything you enter into a tool to Anthropic. AI summaries can be wrong, so always check the original story.