Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains what information GenZCoders collects when you use genzcoders.com — including our free online tools, digital products and contact forms — how we use it, which third parties are involved (including Google for analytics and advertising), and the choices you have.

1. Information You Give Us

We collect the information you choose to submit, including:

• Contact form enquiries (name, email, and optional company, phone/WhatsApp number, budget, service and message)
• Job applications (name, email, phone, position, portfolio link and your message)
• Tool requests (the tool you would like, a description, and optionally your name, email and WhatsApp number)
• Newsletter sign-ups (email address and the page you signed up on)
• License purchases (name and email, collected and processed by Paddle.com as our payment processor)

When you submit a form we also record your approximate country, derived from your IP address, and a one-way hashed version of the IP address used to prevent spam and abuse. We do not store the IP address itself with your submission.

2. Our Free Online Tools

Most of our tools — including the PDF, image, text, QR code, calculator, security, resume and business document tools — run entirely in your web browser. Files you open and text you type in these tools are processed on your device and are not uploaded to our servers.

Some tools need a server to work:

• AI writing tools send the text you enter to our AI providers (Google Gemini and Groq) to generate the result. We do not save that text. We keep only a daily usage count linked to a hashed IP address to apply the free daily limit.
• SEO tools that analyze a web page fetch the public URL you enter from our server. Results are cached for a few minutes so repeat checks are fast, then discarded; we do not keep a history of the pages you analyze.
• The currency converter downloads exchange rates directly from ExchangeRate-API (open.er-api.com); the amount you convert stays in your browser.

Please avoid entering passwords, payment card numbers or other highly sensitive information into AI tools.

3. Information Collected Automatically

When you visit the website we collect standard technical information to understand how the site is used and to keep it secure, such as the pages you view, the tools you use, the referring website, your browser and device type, screen size, approximate location (country, region and city) and internet provider — looked up from your IP address at the time of the visit — and time spent on a page.

We store a random identifier in your browser’s local storage so we can count visits and tool usage without identifying you personally. IP addresses used for analytics are stored only in a one-way hashed form.

We also use Google Analytics (see section 5), which collects similar information using cookies.

4. Advertising (Google AdSense)

We use Google AdSense to show advertisements on some pages. This helps us keep our online tools free.

• 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 visits to our site and/or other sites on the internet.
• You can opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings at https://adssettings.google.com. You can also opt out of some third-party vendors’ use of cookies for personalized advertising at https://www.aboutads.info/choices or https://www.youronlinechoices.eu.
• If you opt out, you may still see ads, but they will not be personalized.

Learn how Google uses information from sites that use its services at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

Visitors from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland are asked for consent through a Google-certified consent message before personalized ads or advertising cookies are used, and can change their choice at any time using the privacy and cookie settings link on the page.

5. Cookies and Similar Technologies

We and our partners use the following types of cookies and browser storage:

• Essential: remembering your light/dark theme preference and keeping you signed in to areas that require a login.
• Analytics: Google Analytics cookies and our own anonymous visitor identifier, used to measure traffic and improve the website.
• Advertising: Google AdSense and its partners’ cookies, used to show and measure ads and, where you have agreed, to personalize them.

You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings. Blocking cookies may affect how some features work. To opt out of Google Analytics on all websites, you can install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on from https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

6. How We Use Your Information

• To respond to your enquiries, applications and tool requests, by email or WhatsApp
• To send automatic confirmation emails when you submit a form
• To process purchases and deliver license keys
• To send the newsletter you subscribed to — every email includes an unsubscribe link
• To understand how the website and tools are used so we can improve them
• To show advertising that keeps our tools free
• To prevent spam, abuse and fraud, and to keep the website secure

7. Third-Party Service Providers

We share information with these providers only as needed to operate our services:

• Google (Google Analytics, Google AdSense and Google Gemini AI)
• Groq — AI text generation for our AI writing tools
• Paddle.com — payment processing and Merchant of Record for digital product purchases
• Brevo — email delivery (notifications, confirmations and newsletters)
• Vercel and Render — website and server hosting
• GitHub — hosting of downloadable plugin releases

Each provider processes data under its own privacy policy. We do not sell your personal information.

8. Data Retention

We keep form submissions for as long as needed to handle your request and for reasonable record-keeping, and newsletter subscriptions until you unsubscribe. Analytics records are kept in aggregated or anonymised form. Transaction records are kept as long as required by law, for example for tax purposes.

9. Your Rights and Choices

Depending on where you live (for example under the GDPR in Europe or the CCPA in California), you may have the right to access, correct or delete your personal information, to object to or restrict certain processing, and to withdraw consent.

• Unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time using the link in any newsletter email.
• Change your advertising consent using the privacy and cookie settings link on the page, or opt out of personalized ads at https://adssettings.google.com.
• To request access to or deletion of your data, send us a message through our contact page at https://www.genzcoders.com/contact.

10. Data Security

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures — including encrypted connections (HTTPS), hashed IP addresses and restricted admin access — to protect your information. No method of transmission or storage is 100% secure.

11. Children’s Privacy

Our website is not directed to children under 13 (or under 16 in the European Economic Area), and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us and we will delete it.

12. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, for example when we add new features or services. The effective date at the top shows when it was last revised.

13. Contact Us

Questions about this Privacy Policy can be sent through our contact page at https://www.genzcoders.com/contact.