Privacy Policy
We Do Not Store Any User Data on Our Servers
Your searches, queries, IP addresses, and inputs are never written to any database, log file, or persistent storage on our servers. Every request is processed ephemerally in server memory and discarded the moment the response is returned to your browser. No user profile is created, no history is retained, and no data is shared with third parties.
Overview & Privacy by Design Commitment
At Global Network Tools, we respect your right to privacy. Privacy is not an afterthought—it is the foundational architectural pillar of our platform. We recognize that our users—ranging from network engineers, developers, and DevOps teams to everyday privacy-conscious individuals—rely on our services to diagnose sensitive infrastructure, test VPN connectivity, audit domain records, and inspect network telemetry.
🚫 We do not store any user data on our servers. All tool inputs—including IP addresses, domain names, URLs, and query parameters—are processed transiently in server memory and immediately discarded after the response is delivered. No user account, history, or identifier is ever persisted to a database.
This Privacy Policy outlines how Global Network Tools handles, processes, and protects information when you access our website, use our network tools, or interface with our endpoints. We operate under strict principles of data minimization and ephemeral in-memory processing: we do not build behavioral user profiles, and we do not sell your personal data or query inputs.
Information We Process & Product-Specific Disclosures
Depending on which tools and features you utilize, the nature of data handled varies as detailed below. We do not store web server access logs or record user sessions on our servers:
A. Data Processed Across Our Diagnostic Suites
B. 100% Client-Side Utilities (Zero Server Transmission)
Our developer utilities—including the CIDR Subnet Calculator, JSON Formatter & Validator, Base64 & URL Encoder, and Hash & UUID Generator—execute 100% locally inside your web browser using client-side JavaScript and the native Web Cryptography API.
Zero payload data, confidential JSON objects, private tokens, or cryptographic hashes ever leave your device's memory. You can safely format proprietary payloads or compute SHA-256 hashes knowing they are never transmitted across the network.
How We Use Information & Legal Basis
We process information strictly on the following legal bases:
- Fulfilling Diagnostic Requests (Performance of Contract / Consent): Delivering live IP lookups, DNS record resolution, speed tests, and HTTP status codes in real time.
- Infrastructure Security & Abuse Prevention (Legitimate Interests): Protecting server resources against malicious automated attacks, volumetric DDoS, and automated scraping.
- System Reliability (Legitimate Interests): Debugging internal network errors, monitoring server uptime, and improving tool responsiveness.
We do NOT use automated profiling, machine learning behavioral tracking, or cross-site tracking to monetize your browsing activity.
Cookies, Web Storage & Advertising Disclosures
localStorage
strictly on your local device to preserve user interface preferences (such as dark mode vs.
light mode theme) and your local search history or starred queries. This information remains
solely on your machine and is never transmitted or synchronized to our servers.
- Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this website or other websites across the Internet.
- Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve personalized or contextual advertisements to users based on their navigation and interaction patterns.
- Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. Alternatively, you can opt out of third-party vendor cookies across participating ad networks by visiting AboutAds.info or the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI).
- To learn more about how Google processes information when you visit partner sites, review How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.
Data Retention & Ephemeral Lifecycle Matrix
We maintain transparent, rigorous data retention schedules:
| Data Category | Purpose | Storage Location | Retention Period |
|---|---|---|---|
| IP / DNS Tool Queries | Generating real-time diagnostic output | Volatile RAM only | 0 ms (Discarded immediately) |
| Speed Test Payloads | Measuring bandwidth throughput & jitter | In-memory socket buffers | 0 ms (Terminated on socket close) |
| Client-Side Utilities (JSON, Hash, CIDR) | Client formatting, calculation & encoding | Browser sandbox only | Never transmitted to servers |
| UI Preferences (Dark/Light mode) | Remembering user visual theme | Browser LocalStorage | Persistent locally until cleared by user |
| 🚫 User Personal Data | Not applicable — never collected | Not stored on any server | Never — Zero Retention |
Your Global Privacy Rights
Regardless of your geographical location, we extend comprehensive privacy rights to all users. Because we do not store user data, most data subject requests are satisfied by design — there is simply no personal data held to access, correct, or delete.
Under Regulation (EU) 2016/679, you have the right to access, rectify, or erase personal data, restrict or object to processing, and request data portability. Because diagnostic queries are ephemeral and we do not maintain user accounts, we do not hold identifiable personal databases. Our lawful basis for the minimal transient processing we perform is legitimate interest (infrastructure security).
The UK GDPR (retained by the Data Protection Act 2018) mirrors EU GDPR rights for UK residents. You retain all rights under Article 15–22, including the right of erasure and data portability. As no personal data is persistently stored, these rights are effectively pre-satisfied.
Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA/CPRA), California residents have the Right to Know, the Right to Delete, and the Right to Non-Discrimination. We do not sell or share your personal information as defined by the CCPA. We do not engage in cross-context behavioral advertising.
Under Brazil's Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados (LGPD — Law No. 13,709/2018), Brazilian users have rights of access, correction, anonymization, and deletion. Since we do not collect or store personal data on our servers, LGPD obligations relating to data subject requests are inherently satisfied.
India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 (DPDPA) and Thailand's Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) grant residents rights over personal data collection and processing. As Global Network Tools does not store personal data or maintain server access logs on any server, no consent-based data processing subject to these frameworks occurs.
Children's Online Privacy Protection (COPPA)
Global Network Tools does not knowingly solicit or collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. Our network diagnostics are general-audience technical tools. If you believe that a child under 13 has provided personal data, please contact us so we can immediately purge such data.
Security Safeguards & Infrastructure Protections
We take the security of our infrastructure and your connection seriously. The following technical and organizational safeguards are in place:
Third-Party Services, APIs & External Links
To deliver real-time diagnostics, our tools interface with public third-party APIs and data sources. Your query inputs may be forwarded to these services as part of the diagnostic lookup — the same inputs you would manually enter into those services directly:
Our website may contain links to external websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those sites and encourage you to review their privacy policies independently.
Policy Updates, Versioning & Contact
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our tools, features, legal obligations, or applicable regulations. All updates are effective immediately upon publication on this page.
- The "Last updated" date and version number at the top of this page are updated with every revision.
- Material changes that significantly affect how we handle data will be highlighted in a notice banner on this page for 30 days following the revision.
- Continued use of Global Network Tools after a policy update constitutes acceptance of the revised terms.
If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy — including exercising your data subject rights — please reach out via our dedicated Contact Us Page or email us directly. We aim to respond to all legitimate privacy inquiries within 30 business days.