Effective Date: August 15, 2025
1. Our Privacy Policy
Welcome to Privacy Policy of Tool Tested.
Tool Tested is a site where we share our knowledge on so many tools and products. We promise to provide honest and useful reviews. We want you to feel safe and comfortable while on our site. This page explains how we operate regarding your privacy especially with third party services that are necessary for our site to function.
Our website address is: https://tooltested.com.
2. We Don’t Collect Personal Info
As the owners of this website we don’t collect any of your personal information. We don’t ask for your name, email or any other identifying details, we don’t have a database of our users. We are here to create content not to collect data.
3.Direct Data Collection & Our Comment Section
We don’t collect or store any of your personal data for our own use. However we do have a comment section on our articles where you can comment.
When you comment you may provide your name and email address. This is just to identify you as the author of the comment and to prevent spam. We don’t use this information for marketing or share it with anyone. Your name (or the username you provide) will be visible to other visitors but your email address will be private.
4. Third Party Data Handling
We don’t collect your data but our website uses services from other companies. These services help us run and grow our site and might collect data on their own terms. Below is a list of these services and how they affect your browsing experience.
- Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics on Tool tested to see how our website is used. This gives us anonymous statistics, like which articles are popular, how long people stay on our site, and what devices they use. This is important for us to improve the content and design of our website. Google Analytics may uses cookies to collect this data, but it doesn’t know who you are. The data is aggregated and helps us see overall trends, not individual behavior. You can read more about Google’s data practices on their privacy page.
- Amazon Affiliate Program: We are part of the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program. This means if you click on a product link on our site and buy it from Amazon, we might earn a small commission. When you click these links, Amazon drops a cookie in your browser. This cookie tracks that you came from our website. Amazon manages your shopping data and personal information, not us. We only get reports that show us what products were purchased and how much commission we earned, without any of your personal details. Check Amazon’s privacy policy for more info.
- Future Advertising (Google AdSense): We might add ads to our site in the future, probably through Google AdSense. This will show you ads that are relevant to your interests. It does this by using cookies to track your browsing habits across different websites. This is standard practice in online advertising. You can opt out yourself from this personalized advertising through your Google account settings.
5. Spam Detection
To keep our comment section helpful and spam free we use an automated spam detection service. This service analyzes comments to filter out spam. It may use your IP address and browser user agent string to check for spam. We don’t have access to this information in a personally identifiable format.
6. Cookies
Cookies are small files that most of the websites store on your device to remember stuff about you. Our website uses them for: Analytics: To track traffic and usage anonymously. Affiliate Tracking: To link sales to our affiliate account. Advertising (Future): To show you relevant ads.
You can manage them or delete them from your browser settings at any time. But disabling cookies might break some of our website’s functionality and the services of third parties.
7. Data Security
We don’t store or collect your personal data ourselves so we don’t have any of your personal info to protect. The data security for the info collected by third parties is their responsibility. They have their own protocols to keep your data safe.
8. Children’s Privacy
Our content is for a general audience and not for children under 13. We don’t intentionally collect any info from children. If you’re a parent or guardian and think we’ve collected info from a child, please contact us right away so we can sort it out.
9. Policy Updates
We may update this policy as our website changes. We’ll post any changes here. Please check back from time to time to stay in the know. Any changes are effective as soon as they’re posted here.
10. Get in Touch
If you have any questions or concerns about this policy, email us at [smartaigears@gmail.com]