Privacy

Draft notice: this page describes Packetory's actual current behavior and is published in good faith, but it has not yet received a final human legal/privacy review. It is not launch-final. The final Belgian/EU analytics and disclosure configuration will be confirmed before public launch.

Packetory is built to be used without giving up anything about yourself. This page describes exactly what the site does and does not do with your data — no legal boilerplate, no vague reassurances.

No accounts, no personal data

Packetory has no user accounts, no login, and no sign-up. We do not ask for your name, email address, or any other personally identifiable information (PII), and we do not collect any in v1. Every tool runs entirely in your browser unless a result inherently requires an external lookup (for example, a DNS query or a MAC vendor lookup) — those requests go directly from your browser to the relevant service, not through Packetory's own servers where avoidable.

For example, the DNS Lookup tool sends the domain you enter directly from your browser to Cloudflare (the primary DNS-over-HTTPS resolver) and, only if Cloudflare is unavailable, to Google (an explicit fallback) — the domain is never stored or sent anywhere else.

No tracking cookies

Packetory does not set any tracking cookie, and no consent banner is shown because none is required for how the site operates:

Your light/dark theme preference is saved only in your browser's localStorage, never in a cookie, and is never sent to any server.
Page-view analytics (see below) run without cookies or any cross-visit identifier.

Analytics: cookie-free, and redacted by default

Packetory uses Vercel Analytics, which is cookie-free by design, to understand aggregate traffic (for example, which tool pages are visited). Before any page URL is reported, its query parameters are passed through a central, safe-by-default allow-list: a query parameter is only ever reported if it has been explicitly and deliberately added to that allow-list. Every other parameter — including any future tool input such as a MAC address, an internal hostname, a private IP address, or a secret/token typed into a URL — is stripped before the page view leaves your browser. As of today, that allow-list is empty, so no query parameters are reported at all.

What we don't do

No device fingerprinting or cross-visit identifiers.
No sale or sharing of data with third parties.
No advertising trackers.
No claim of GDPR, CCPA, or any other formal compliance certification — Packetory is a small, privacy-minded side project, and this notice describes its actual behavior rather than asserting a legal status it hasn't formally verified.

Language

Packetory is currently available in English only.

Changes to this notice

As Packetory adds new tools, this notice will be updated to stay accurate — for example, if a future tool ever needs a new analytics query parameter, that parameter will be reviewed and added to the allow-list deliberately, and this page will reflect that.