Cookie Policy
This page lists every cookie and storage entry Vectorize.tools uses, what each one is for, and how long it lasts.
What we use
Vectorize.tools sets a few small cookies and a few entries in your browser's storage. None of them identify you, and we use no advertising or cross-site tracking cookies. Plausible sets no cookies; Google Analytics sets the two cookies marked Analytics below, only while Analytics is on.
| Name | Category | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| vt_consent (cookie) and vt-consent (local storage) | Essential | Records the choice you make in the cookie notice, so we do not ask again. | 180 days |
| sk_nl (cookie) | Essential | Set after you sign up for updates: a scrambled fingerprint of the address (never the address), so the form does not ask again and abuse can be limited. | 180 days |
| sk-nl:done, sk-nl:tries (local storage) | Essential | Remembers that this browser signed up, and slows down repeated signup attempts. | 180 days, or a day for an unconfirmed signup |
| vt-ai-dismissed (session storage) | Essential | Remembers that you closed the note about the upcoming AI cleanup, in this tab only. | Until the tab closes |
| Service worker cache | Essential | Keeps the page and the tracing engine on your device for fast and offline use. | Until you clear site data |
| vt-theme (local storage) | Functional | Remembers whether you picked the light or the dark theme. | Until you change it |
| vt-lang, vt-lang-dismissed (local storage) | Functional | Remembers the language you picked, and a language suggestion you dismissed. | Until you change it |
| vt-upscale-prompt-v1 (local storage) | Functional | Remembers that the optional Upscale invitation was shown, dismissed, or opened, so it does not keep appearing. It contains no image data or identifier. | Until you clear site data |
| _ga (cookie) | Analytics | Google Analytics: a random identifier that lets us tell a returning browser from a new one when counting visits. | 2 years |
| _ga_P5MYT3S0XR (cookie) | Analytics | Google Analytics: keeps the state of the current visit. | 2 years |
| plausible_ignore (local storage) | Analytics | Set when you turn Analytics off, so your visits are not counted. | Until you turn Analytics back on |
Analytics
We use two analytics services to learn which pages and features help. Plausible Analytics counts page views and a few coarse tool events without cookies. Google Analytics 4 measures the same page views and events and sets the two cookies listed above. We run Google Analytics with Google signals and ad personalization turned off and do not use it for advertising. In the EEA, the United Kingdom and Switzerland it runs without cookies until you accept Analytics. Turn Analytics off in the cookie preferences and neither service counts your visits, and the Google Analytics cookies are removed.
How to control cookies
The cookie notice shown on your first visit lets you accept or decline the non-essential categories. If you leave the notice unanswered it closes itself after about twenty seconds and records what is already running: Essential on, Functional on, Analytics on. In the EEA, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, Google Analytics stays cookieless until you accept Analytics. Nothing new starts at that moment, and Your privacy choices in the footer of every page reopens your preferences at any time. You can also clear this site's data in your browser settings; the tool keeps working, it just downloads the engine again.
Contact
Vectorize.tools is operated by Elowin Labs LLC. Questions: hello@vectorize.tools. See also the Privacy Policy.