Cookie and Browser Storage Policy

Your choice comes first

Optional Analytics and Advertising are off until you give permission. Ignore keeps them off, Customize lets you choose each one, and Accept cookies enables both. Advertising here means measuring our own Google Ads campaigns; no ads are shown on this site.

Cookies and browser storage are different

A cookie is a small value attached to web requests for a domain. Local storage and session storage stay in a browser profile and are accessed by page scripts. Words Calculator currently relies on local and session storage for product behavior rather than deliberately setting its own cookies. Google Analytics can set first-party cookies only after Analytics permission, and Google Ads only after Advertising permission. Hosting and security infrastructure may still use strictly necessary delivery mechanisms outside the application code.

Storage currently used by the application

Theme preference: Remembers light or dark appearance in local storage.
Session recovery: Keeps the current draft in session storage so a refresh in the same tab is less likely to lose work.
Remembered drafts: Uses local storage only after you enable a visible remember option.
Tool preferences: May remember settings such as an editor target or selected preferences on the same device.
Consent choice: Stores whether Analytics was accepted or declined, the policy version, and the time of the choice so the site can respect it on later visits.
Google Analytics cookies: After Analytics permission, Google Analytics can set identifiers such as _ga and _ga_DBNM9QBBP3 to distinguish browsers and sessions. They are not created by our integration before permission.

How long storage lasts

Session storage normally ends when the tab or browser session closes. Local storage remains until a tool removes it, you clear site data, the browser evicts it, or the browser profile is deleted. Google documents a default expiration of up to two years for its principal GA4 identifier cookies, with renewal when data is sent. Browser settings and Google configuration can shorten that period. Words Calculator does not synchronize local preferences to an account.

How to control or remove it

Open Cookie settings in the footer to change Analytics permission at any time. Withdrawing permission sends a denied consent update, stops full Analytics measurement, and attempts to remove the known first-party Analytics cookies. Limited cookieless consent signals can continue. You can also turn off remembered drafts, use a tool's Clear command, or remove all Words Calculator data through browser privacy settings. Blocking storage can prevent preference persistence and recovery, but core local calculations should continue to work.

Google Fonts and network requests

A Google Font preview can load a stylesheet or font file from Google when you open the font browser, select a family, or restore formatted content that already uses one. A formatted export can ask our font endpoint for the chosen family, weight, and style so the font can be embedded. These requests do not contain your document wording. Google's delivery service receives ordinary network data as described in its Google Fonts privacy FAQ.

Google Analytics

The global integration uses Google Analytics 4 measurement ID G-DBNM9QBBP3. The Google tag loads on each page after Consent Mode v2 defaults are set. Before permission, Analytics storage is denied and Google can receive limited cookieless signals such as the consent state and ordinary technical request information. After permission, Analytics cookies and full measurement can cover page URLs, referrer, approximate location, browser and device information, sessions, and interactions needed to understand site use. Draft text, uploaded documents, cleaned output, comparison text, and converter input are not sent as Analytics event content by our integration.

The integration queues denied defaults before the Google configuration command and updates all four Consent Mode v2 signals after your choice. Ignoring optional cookies does not reduce access to the tools.

Google Ads conversion measurement

We run Google Ads campaigns to promote Words Calculator. The Google tag includes Google Ads account AW-18306675968 and records a page-view conversion when a page loads, so we can see whether our ads bring visitors. No ads are displayed on this site and we do not build advertising profiles.

Without Advertising permission, ad_storage, ad_user_data and ad_personalization stay denied: Google receives only a cookieless ping with the consent state and ordinary request information, and no advertising cookies are set. With permission, Google Ads can use cookies such as _gcl_au and Google's own advertising cookies to link a visit to an ad click. You can withdraw permission anytime from Cookie settings in the footer.

We do not use Google AdSense. If we ever show ads in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, or Switzerland, we will use a Google-certified consent management platform where Google requires one.

Contact

Questions about current storage behavior can be sent to wordscalculator@gmail.com. Include the browser and tool name, but do not include the private draft itself.