Privacy

You do not need an account to search, compare or read anything here. The only things the site saves on your device are your choice of light or dark mode and, if ads are switched on, whether you accepted them.

If you use the submission form, we store what you type (the tool's details and your email address) so it can be checked automatically and so we can contact you if needed. Your email is never shown on the site or shared.

To limit spam we also keep a salted, one-way hash of your IP address, which cannot be turned back into the address and is used only to count submissions per hour. Submissions you ask us to delete, or that were rejected, can be removed on request: write to the address below.

When you follow a link from agathox to another tool, we add one to a counter for that tool, task and day. We do not store who you are, your address, a cookie or anything that could identify you with that count. To stop one connection from inflating a number, a salted hash of your IP address is kept for up to a day, and then deleted.

If your browser sends Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control, we do not count the click at all. Makers see only the totals for their own tool.

If you create a maker account, we store your email address, a one-way hash of your password (we cannot read your password), and what you do with the account: tools you claim, changes you propose and tests you request. Approved changes to a listing become public, without your email address.

If you switch between light and dark mode, the choice is saved in a small cookie shared by agathox.com and our tool sites, so the same theme follows you from site to site. It holds only the word light or dark.

Logging in sets one cookie that keeps you signed in for up to 30 days. It is used for nothing else. To slow down password guessing and sign-up floods, we also keep a salted hash of your IP address and the attempt count for up to a day.

If you ask to reset your password, we send an email to the address you give, through our email provider, Resend, which handles the message for us. The link works once and for 60 minutes. We also email you when a password is changed. We store only a hash of the link's code, and attempts are counted by hashed IP address and hashed email for up to a day to limit abuse.

You can delete your account from the dashboard at any time. That removes your login, claims, pending changes and test requests. Tools stay listed, and changes we already published stay published.

To score tools, a robot visits each listed tool's public home page about once a week and records technical facts such as speed, security headers and which tracking services load. It reads the site's robots.txt first and stops if asked. It identifies itself as agathox-bot (see Our crawler). We also read public Hacker News threads and public GitHub repository information. None of this involves personal data about you. Comments we quote are public and link back to their thread.

On a tool page you can ask to be emailed when that tool's official pages change. We store your email address, the tool, a random code that lets you confirm or cancel, and the dates of the confirmation and of the last alert. Nothing is sent until you open the link in the confirmation email (if you did not ask, do nothing and it is forgotten). The only emails are those alerts, each with a link that stops it in one click, or all alerts for your address. We never use the address for anything else, never share it, and never show it. Our email provider, Resend, delivers the messages for us. You can ask us to delete an address at any time by writing to the address below.

On the Find my tool page you can type what you need. Matching it against the tools we list happens in your browser and nothing is sent. Only if you press Search the web is the text you typed sent to our server, which passes it to a web search service and to Google's Gemini to write an answer. Do not type personal details. We keep the words searched (lower-cased, with a count of how many times they were searched, never who searched) so we can add missing tools, and the answer for 14 days so the same question is not searched twice. To limit abuse we use a salted hash of your IP address for up to a day. The answers are written by an AI from search results and are not tested by us.

Each collection has its own privacy page that lists exactly what its tools do:

• PDF tools
• Image tools
• Text tools
• Calculators
• Video & audio
• Timers & games

The one exception is HTML to PDF: when you give it a web address, our server fetches that page for you, because browsers cannot read other websites directly. The page is not stored.

agathox uses Google Tag Manager on every visit to measure how the site is used, so Google receives usage data such as the pages you open and your browser details, and may set cookies. Visitors in the EU, EEA, UK and Switzerland (and anyone whose country we cannot tell) are asked first and measured only if they choose Accept. Everywhere else measurement starts when the page opens and is not switched off by Do Not Track. agathox may also show ads from Google AdSense. Ads load only if you choose Accept in the banner, and you can decline and still use everything. Google may use cookies to measure use and to show and measure ads; see Google's own policy for how. You can block measurement with your browser's tracking protection or a content blocker.

Some links to other tools are referral links, so agathox may earn a commission if you sign up. They are marked, and sponsored boxes are labelled. Neither changes a ranking.

For privacy questions, write to hello@agathox.com. For a bug or wrong information, use the report form.