Privacy Policy

Information we collect

Newsletter: when you subscribe to our newsletter, we store your email address.

Tool submissions and sponsorships: when you fill in the form to feature a tool, we store the tool name, website, category, short description and your email address. Payments are processed by Stripe; your card details never reach us and are not stored by us.

Usage data: information such as the pages you visit, your device and browser type, your approximate location and how you arrived at the site is collected through Google Analytics. We also record the use of features such as "I'm feeling lucky" as anonymous events that contain no personal information.

Technical logs: our hosting and security providers may briefly log technical information such as your IP address to run the site and prevent abuse.

How we use information

We use it to send the newsletter, process sponsorship requests and contact you; to operate, protect and improve the site; to understand which content people find useful; and to show advertising on the site. We do not sell your personal data.

Google AdSense and advertising

Ads on this site are served by Google AdSense. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites.

Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.

You can opt out of personalized advertising in Google Ads Settings: https://adssettings.google.com. You can opt out of third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalized advertising at https://www.aboutads.info.

More on how Google uses data: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to understand site traffic. It collects aggregated, statistical usage information through cookies. If you don't want Google Analytics to collect data from you, you can use the browser add-on: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Cookies

We use cookies to remember your language preference, measure traffic and show advertising. Which cookies we use and how to control them is explained in our Cookie Policy.

Service providers

We rely on the following services to run the site; they process data only to provide their service: Vercel (hosting), Cloudflare (content delivery, security and image storage), Supabase (database), Stripe (payments), Google Analytics (analytics) and Google AdSense (advertising). Some of these services may process data outside Turkey.

Retention

We keep your newsletter email address for as long as you are subscribed or until you ask us to delete it. Sponsorship and payment records are kept for as long as legal obligations require.

Your rights

Under Turkey's Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 (KVKK) and, where applicable, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you have the right to learn whether data about you is processed, to access it, to ask for it to be corrected or deleted, and to object to its processing. You can send requests to info@toolshunters.com.

Children's privacy

Our site is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from them.

Changes and contact

We may update this policy from time to time; the current version is always on this page. For questions, reach us at info@toolshunters.com.