Last updated: October 2026
The short version
Everything you type into our calculators (incomes, invoices, passwords, text) is processed inside your browser and never sent to our servers. Advertising cookies are described below and you can decline non-essential cookies. Our own analytics uses no cookies at all and never stores your IP address.
Information we do not collect
Calculator inputs are not transmitted, logged or stored by us. The GST invoice generator, salary calculator, password generator and word counter run entirely on your device. Some tools save your preferences (such as your time zone list) in your browser’s local storage, which stays on your device and can be cleared through your browser settings.
Information collected automatically
Like most websites, our web server records standard access logs (IP address, browser type, pages requested, timestamps) for security and troubleshooting. Live market and currency tools request data from our server-side proxies; those requests contain the symbols or currency pair requested but none of your other inputs.
Advertising
We display advertising served by Google AdSense. Google and its partners use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this and other websites. You can opt out of personalised advertising at Google Ads Settings, and you can read how Google uses information from sites that use its services at Google’s partner-sites page. Users in the EEA and UK are shown a consent message before personalised ads are served.
Analytics
We run our own analytics on our own server. There is no third-party analytics service, no Google Analytics, and no advertising or tracking cookie is set by us for this purpose.
When a page loads, your browser sends us a single small message recording the page address you opened, the website you arrived from (its domain name only, never the full link or anything you searched for), your screen and window width, your browser, your operating system and your language setting. That is the whole list.
We do not store your IP address. To count how many people visited rather than how many times a page was loaded, your IP address and browser description are combined with a secret value and converted into a short code that cannot be reversed. That secret value is replaced every day and the previous one is destroyed, so the same visitor on two different days cannot be recognised as the same person, and the stored code can never be traced back to you.
We do not use cookies or browser storage for analytics, we never record anything you type into a calculator, and we do not build a profile of you or share this data with anyone. If your browser sends a “Do Not Track” signal, we record nothing at all.
The information is kept on our own server, outside the public website, and is used only to see which tools people find useful and how the site performs.
Our Android apps
We publish three Android apps under the Global Time Tools name: World Clock, Photo Tools and Salary, EMI & SIP Calculator, which also holds the loan and GST calculators. This section covers those apps. Everything above describes the website.
There is no account and no sign in. You cannot create a profile in any of them, so there is no account for us to hold, sync or delete. Google Play asks for an account deletion path only where a person can sign in, and here nobody can.
Your content stays on your phone. World Clock keeps your chosen cities in the app’s own storage on the device. The calculators keep the figures you type on the phone, and the GST invoice keeps your own business name and GSTIN there so you need not type them again. Photo Tools opens the picture you choose through your phone’s own photo picker and resizes, crops, compresses, converts or adjusts it entirely on the phone. No picture and no figure you type is ever uploaded to us, and the tools work with no signal at all. A picture or an invoice leaves your phone only when you save it or share it yourself.
Settings we can change without a new version. Each app asks our own server, at console.globaltimetools.com, whether any of its settings have been changed since it was built: things like the default rate a calculator starts on, or whether ads are shown at all. The app sends only its own name, version and build number and the list of settings it understands. It sends nothing about you, it sets no cookie, and no advertising ID is involved. Every value already ships inside the app, so if that request fails, or you are offline, or we switch the service off, the app works exactly as well.
The note an app keeps about itself. Each app writes a short trail of what it was doing, such as which screen was open, which buttons were pressed, and whether something failed or the app closed while it was open, so that a report of “it just closed” can be answered rather than guessed at. The app sends that trail to our own server, at console.globaltimetools.com, when it next starts and when it goes to the background. It is anonymous: it carries the app’s version and your phone’s Android version, and no name, no account, no advertising ID and nothing you typed. Our server does not store your IP address with it, and removes anything that looks like an amount, a phone number, an email address, a PAN, an Aadhaar number or a GSTIN before it is saved. We use it only to find and fix faults, never for advertising, and each trail is deleted after 90 days. You can also send the trail yourself from the app’s settings, through your phone’s share sheet.
Advertising. All three apps show ads supplied by Google AdMob. To show them, AdMob reads your device’s advertising ID and technical information about the device, and shares it with Google and its advertising partners. That is a genuine sharing with a third party, not processing on our behalf, and it is declared that way on the store listing. Where the law requires it, including the EEA and the UK, a consent form is shown before any personalised ad is served, and you can change that choice later. You can reset or delete the advertising ID at any time in Android under Settings, Google, Ads.
Payments. None of the apps sells anything at present. If that changes, purchases will go through Google Play Billing, we will never see your card details, and this section will say exactly what we receive.
None of the apps asks for your location, your contacts, your microphone or your files. Photo Tools opens only the picture you pick, and asks for the camera only when you choose to take a photo.
Third-party services
Currency rates are fetched from the Frankfurter API (European Central Bank data); market quotes from public market data feeds; fonts from Google Fonts. These providers receive standard technical request data (such as your IP address) when your browser loads those resources.
Your rights
Depending on your jurisdiction (including under the GDPR and India’s DPDP Act 2023), you may have rights to access, correct or erase personal data. Since we hold essentially no personal data about visitors, most requests concern advertising cookies, which you can clear in your browser at any time. For anything else, contact us at contact@globaltimetools.com.
US state privacy rights
If you live in California, the CCPA as amended by the CPRA gives you the right to know what personal information is collected, to ask for it to be deleted, and to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information. We do not sell personal information and we do not build profiles ourselves. Our advertising partner may use cookies for personalised advertising, which some US state laws treat as sharing. You can turn that off for your browser at Google Ads Settings, and you can block or delete cookies in your browser at any time. Residents of other US states with similar laws, such as Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut and Texas, have comparable rights and can use the same routes, or contact us through the contact page.
Children
The site is a general-audience utility site and does not knowingly collect personal information from children.
Changes
We will update this page when our practices change, with the date above revised accordingly.