Privacy Policy

Effective date: October 17, 2026

This policy explains what information The Solo Toolbox (thesolotoolbox.com) collects when you visit the site, how it is used, and the choices you have. If you have a question about it, please use our contact page.

Information you give us

Contact form. If you send us a message, we receive your name, email address and message by email. We use them only to read and reply to your message.

Comments. If you leave a comment, we collect the name, email address and website you enter, your comment, your IP address and your browser’s user agent string to help detect spam. Your name, website and comment are shown publicly; your email address is not. An anonymized string created from your email address (a hash) may be sent to the Gravatar service to check whether you have a Gravatar profile picture. Gravatar’s privacy policy is available at automattic.com/privacy.

Information collected automatically

Analytics. We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use the site, such as which pages are read, how visitors arrive, and what kind of device and browser they use. Google Analytics uses cookies and similar technologies to collect this information. You can learn how Google uses this data at How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services, and you can opt out with the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.

Server logs. Like most websites, our hosting provider records technical information about each request, such as your IP address, browser type, the page requested and the time of the request. This is used to keep the site running and secure.

Cookies

Cookies are small files stored by your browser. This site uses:

  • Analytics cookies set by Google Analytics, as described above.
  • Comment cookies, only if you leave a comment and choose to have your details remembered for next time.
  • Login cookies for people who manage the site.

You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings. The site will still work, though some conveniences, such as remembered comment details, will not.

Advertising

The Solo Toolbox does not currently display advertising. We may use Google AdSense to show ads in the future. If we do, the following will apply, and we will update this policy before ads appear:

  • 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 this site and/or other sites on the internet.
  • You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings, or opt out of some third-party vendors’ use of cookies for personalized advertising at aboutads.info.
  • Where the law requires it, including for visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, we will ask for your consent before personalized ads are shown.

How we share information

We do not sell your personal information. We share it only with the service providers that run the site on our behalf (our web host and Google, as described above), or when the law requires it.

How long we keep information

We keep contact messages for as long as needed to deal with your request. Comments and their details are kept so the conversation stays readable, unless you ask us to remove them. Analytics data is kept according to our Google Analytics data-retention setting.

Your choices and rights

You can ask us to tell you what personal information we hold about you, or to correct or delete it, by using our contact page. Depending on where you live, you may have additional rights under laws such as the GDPR or California privacy law. We will respond to any request as those laws require.

Children

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

Changes to this policy

If we change how we handle information, such as adding advertising or a newsletter, we will update this page and its effective date.