Privacy Policy
We built this site for a category where trust and privacy are the whole point: you're pasting scam messages and reading about your parents' vulnerabilities. So the policy is short: today the site collects almost nothing, sends nothing you type anywhere, and stores nothing about you except anonymous aggregate page counts and a few anonymous counters in your own browser that you can delete with one click. If we ever add something that collects more, this page will say so plainly, before it happens.
The short version
- No account needed today. You never have to sign up to use anything on this site. If we ever add optional accounts (for example, to save a checklist or join a mailing list), they'll be optional, and this page will say what they store.
- No advertising or fingerprinting today. No advertising cookies, no cross-site tracking, no fingerprinting, no remarketing. The one analytics tool we use right now (Google Analytics 4) is configured with IP anonymization, and we use it only for anonymous aggregate page counts. If we ever add advertising or remarketing, it will be announced here first, with a clear choice where consent is required.
- No ads today. Nothing on this site is currently ad-supported.
- Tools run in your browser. The Scam Risk Check analyzes text locally with a fixed set of rules. Nothing you paste into it is transmitted or stored, not by us, not by anyone. (Please still don't paste passwords, codes, or account numbers: you don't need them to check a message.)
- What little we do record stays on your device. See below.
Site-wide analytics (anonymous aggregate only)
To know which pages are genuinely useful, the site uses Google Analytics 4 with IP anonymization enabled and Google Consent Mode set so advertising cookies, ad personalization, and ad user data are denied sitewide (this site currently has no ads and never uses those features). We collect only anonymous, aggregate counts: page views, which pages are useful, roughly how far people scroll, which tools people complete, and how often visitors click links to outside resources (including our product links). It does not tell us who you are, we never see anything you paste into a tool, and no remarketing or ad personalization is possible. Google's use of this data is covered by their privacy policy. You can opt out of Google Analytics broadly with Google's official opt-out browser add-on, and the one-click local toggle below also stops site-wide analytics for this browser.
This is our current setup. As the site grows, we may add or switch analytics tools. Our standing rules either way: aggregate and anonymized by default, never tied to your name or contact details, never including anything you paste into a tool, and always with an easy opt-out. Any change gets announced on this page with a new effective date.
Local aggregate events (optional, stays on your device)
To understand whether the tools help people, without ever seeing what people type, the site keeps a small, anonymous event log in your browser's local storage (a file that never leaves your device). Each event contains only:
- a page identifier (e.g., "scam-risk-check") and an event type (e.g., "tool_complete");
- a coarse date (day only, not time);
- for the Scam Risk Check only: the risk band that matched: never the message text;
- a count for Explain It generations and the platform/task used: never anything you typed (there's nothing to type).
The log is capped at the most recent 200 events, is never sent anywhere (it is separate from the site-wide aggregate analytics above), and can be viewed or wiped below. Turning it off is a one-click choice that we respect:
Your local activity on this browser
These are aggregate counts stored in this browser only. Nothing here is sent to any server.
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Forms and contact
Our contact page is deliberately email-based: we don't run a contact form, so there's nothing to collect server-side. If you email us, we keep your email only as long as needed to respond and resolve the matter, and we don't add it to any marketing list. If we ever start an optional newsletter, it will be opt-in with a one-click unsubscribe, and this page will say so.
External links
Pages link to government and manufacturer sites (FTC, IC3, Apple, Google, and others). Once you leave this site, their privacy policies apply: we don't control them, and we recommend them only because they're the right places to verify things.
What we will never do
- Store, transmit, or log raw scam-checker input, passwords, codes, or account numbers.
- Host private family documents. (A printable blank checklist is the furthest we go: see the documents checklist.)
- Sell or share your personal information. We don't collect any today, and we will never sell it, now or in the future.
- Route anything through third-party services that would see what you type on this site.
What we may add later, and how you'd know
We'd rather be honest about the future than promise it can't change. As the site grows, we may add things like:
- Optional accounts, for features that genuinely need one (saving a checklist, bookmarking a guide). Reading and the tools stay free and account-free.
- An email newsletter, always opt-in, with one-click unsubscribe and no selling or renting of the list.
- Paid features or a membership, clearly labeled, with the free core intact.
- Additional analytics or advertising, announced on this page first, with a clear choice where consent is required.
Anything we add will be described on this page with a new effective date and a plain "what changed" note, and it will be scoped to the minimum needed. The promises above: no selling your information, no storing what you paste into a tool, no hosting your family's private documents: those do not change.
If we ever change this
Any change that starts collecting more data or adds advertising, accounts, or paid features will be announced on this page with a clear "what changed" note and a new effective date, and it will be scoped to the minimum needed. We won't quietly add trackers: that would be the opposite of the whole project.
Questions
Email us via the contact page. We answer privacy questions the same way we answer errors: promptly and plainly.