Cookie Policy
Short version: the site itself does not set cookies. Google’s analytics and advertising scripts do, and only after you say yes.
What counts as a cookie here
A cookie is a small file a website asks your browser to hold onto, usually to remember who you are or what you have chosen between visits. Hot Web Tools does not set any cookies of its own: the site has no accounts, no sessions, and no server-side reason to track a visit.
The only cookies that can end up in your browser here come from Google, and only if you accept them — see "Cookies set with your consent" below.
What we store instead
Rather than cookies, the site keeps a handful of preferences in your browser’s own local storage: your light/dark theme, your favourite tools, your recently used tools, and your cookie choice itself. Local storage never leaves your device and is never sent to us or to anyone else.
You can clear any of it at any time by clearing site data for hotwebtools.cc in your browser’s settings.
Cookies set with your consent
If you accept analytics, we load Google Analytics 4, which sets cookies to measure how the site is used. If you accept advertising, we load Google AdSense, which sets cookies to serve and measure ads. Each choice is independent, and neither script loads until you choose it.
On every page load, whether you have answered yet or have declined, we tell Google’s tags to run in a consent-denied state (Google Consent Mode v2), so no advertising or analytics cookie is set unless you have actively agreed to it.
Changing your mind
Your choice is saved in your browser and used on every later visit, so you are not asked again unless you clear it yourself.
Use the button below to withdraw your consent. Doing so clears your saved choice, so the cookie banner will ask again the next time you load a page, and no analytics or advertising script will run until you answer it.
What Google does with this data
Google Analytics and Google AdSense are operated by Google and governed by Google’s own terms and privacy practices, not ours. We do not control what Google does with the data its scripts collect beyond the consent settings we configure.
Updates and contact
We may update this policy if the cookies or scripts we use change. The date at the top of this page reflects the version in force.
Questions about this policy can be sent to [email protected].