The short version
Every tool on this site — the password checker, passphrase generator, phishing email checker, QR code checker, and quizzes — runs entirely in your browser. Whatever you type or upload into those tools is never sent to us, never stored, and never leaves your device. You can disconnect from the internet after any tool page loads and it will keep working, which proves nothing is being transmitted.
The site does use a small number of third-party services (listed in full below) for advertising, basic visitor statistics, and an optional kids' game leaderboard. None of them are given your name, email address, or any personally identifying information by us.
What we never collect
- Passwords or passphrases you test or generate
- Email text you paste into the Phishing Email Checker
- QR code images or links you check
- Your answers on the Digital Footprint or Safe Browsing quizzes
- Your name, email address, or any account details — we don't have accounts
Third-party services we use
These are the only outside services connected to this site. Each one is standard, widely used, and limited to the purpose described.
Kids' game leaderboards
The Kids Zone games (Scam or Safe?, Whack-a-Scam, Safety Runner) include an optional leaderboard. To appear on it, a player types a nickname of their choosing — never a real name or any personal detail — which is stored along with their score. Nicknames are automatically checked against a filter to block inappropriate entries. No other information is collected from children, and the leaderboard is entirely optional — the games work fully without ever entering a name.
How advertising on this site works
This site is free because it carries advertising served by Google. Google and its partners act as third-party vendors on this site, and you should know the following:
- Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites.
- Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the internet.
- Third parties may place and read cookies on your browser, or use web beacons, device identifiers or IP addresses, to collect information as a result of ad serving on this website.
- You can opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings, or opt out of third-party vendor use of cookies for personalised advertising at aboutads.info and Your Online Choices.
- For full detail on how Google handles data when you use our partners' sites, see How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.
In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, advertising and analytics cookies are not set until you choose Accept on the consent banner. Choosing Decline leaves them off, and every tool on this site continues to work exactly the same way.
Children's privacy and advertising
The Kids Zone, Whack-a-Scam and Safety Runner pages are treated as child-directed. On those pages we request non-personalised ads only and tag ad requests for child-directed treatment, so no interest-based or remarketing advertising is used there, and no advertising profile is built from a child's visit.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. The games need no sign-up, no email address and no real name. The optional leaderboard stores a self-chosen nickname and a score, filtered for inappropriate entries, and nothing else. A child can play every game fully without entering anything at all. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, contact us and we will delete it.
Your choices and rights
- Cookies: change your choice at any time by clearing this site's data in your browser, which brings the consent banner back.
- Analytics: you can opt out of Google Analytics across all sites using Google's opt-out browser add-on.
- Access, correction and deletion: we hold no account data, so in most cases there is nothing to retrieve or delete. If you have emailed us, you can ask us to delete that correspondence at any time.
- Complaints: in New Zealand you may contact the Office of the Privacy Commissioner. If you are in the EEA or UK, you may contact your national data protection authority.
Cookies
This site uses cookies only for the purposes described above: displaying ads (Google AdSense), anonymous visitor statistics (Google Analytics), and remembering your selected country/language (stored locally in your browser, not sent to us). You can clear cookies at any time through your browser settings without affecting your ability to use any tool on this site.
Children's privacy
Parts of this site are designed for children, and we take that seriously. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. The Kids Zone requires no sign-up, no email, and no real name — only an optional, self-chosen nickname for the leaderboard, as described above.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted on this page with a new "last updated" date. We won't make changes that reduce your privacy without making that clear here.
Questions about this policy
Reach out any time via our Contact Us page.