What we use
- Necessary storage: locally saves your privacy choice, consent version, and expiry for 180 days.
- Analytics: after permission, Google Analytics may measure pages, search terms you actively submit, outbound and affiliate links, comparison selections, and tool actions to show which content is useful.
- Local tool storage: only after you choose Save, scorecard candidate names and ratings remain in this browser and are not uploaded.
- Advertising storage: after separate permission, Google AdSense may use cookies, local storage, device, and network information for ad delivery, frequency controls, and measurement.
- The site does not use cookies for accounts, payments, or calculator inputs.
Default behavior
Analytics and advertising are both off by default and can be chosen separately. Rejecting optional storage does not prevent you from browsing the directory, comparing tools, using the calculator, or reading deal guides. Privacy, Cookie, and Terms pages do not load the advertising script.
Third-party services
Google provides the advertising technology. Third-party vendors, including Google, may use advertising cookies based on a visitor's prior visits to this website or other websites; visitors can opt out of personalized advertising. Identifiers and retention periods may vary by region, configuration, and policy.
When you follow a software brand, Secret, or other affiliate link, you leave this site and the destination handles the visit under its own policy. Before personalized ads are served in the EEA, UK, or Switzerland, ToolPickly must also enable a Google-certified CMP integrated with the IAB TCF in AdSense.
Manage and withdraw
Use Privacy settings at the bottom of the page to separately accept, reject, or withdraw analytics and advertising permission. Withdrawing stops this site from loading the relevant script in future visits. Use your browser's cookie and site-data controls to remove identifiers already stored by third parties.
Policy changes
Before enabling new analytics functions, accounts, subscriptions, synced saved items, or new advertising providers, we will update this policy and ask again when the processing purpose materially changes.