Legal
Privacy policy
Who is responsible
The controller of personal data is the operator of ToolScope. Formal legal entity details will be published here once finalized.
Privacy enquiries: use the contact form and select “Legal notice”.
What we collect
- Account data — email address, hashed password credentials via our authentication provider, and profile settings you choose to save.
- Submissions and reviews — text you post publicly, including tool submissions, reviews, corrections and contest requests.
- Domain verification records — challenge tokens you place at your domain to prove ownership of a listing.
- Analytics — aggregate usage information used to improve the service.
- Crawler activity — public web pages we retrieve to build listings; identified as ToolScopeBot/1.0 (+https://toolscope.biz/bot).
- Newsletter opt-ins — email addresses of subscribers who confirmed their subscription.
Cookies and consent
Strictly necessary cookies for authentication, security and session continuity load without consent. Analytics (Google Analytics) and advertising measurement (Google Ads) load only after you accept those categories in our cookie banner, and you can change or withdraw that choice at any time from “Cookie settings” in the footer. PayPal sets its own cookies only when you start a payment. See our cookie policy for details.
Your rights
You can request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal data by contacting us. Deletion of an account removes account data and unpublishes reviews attributed to it.
Changes to this policy
We update this policy as the product changes. Material changes will be reflected on this page with a revised effective date.