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Privacy policy
How Biberks handles information, on the new version of the site and on the older pages still in use while it moves over.
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This policy explains what information biberks.com handles, where it goes and what is saved on your device. It covers the website, its tools and blog, and the contact form. It is a plain description of how the site works, not legal advice.
The site is moving to a new version
Biberks is being rebuilt. Most pages now run on the new version of the site (V2). Some older pages from the previous version (V1) stay live at their usual addresses until their V2 replacements are ready, and they work differently: they use outside services that V2 pages don’t. Both are described below. This policy is updated as pages move to V2.
Summary
- V2 pages show ads from Google AdSense, except the Contact pages, the 404 page and removed-tool notices. Google may use cookies to show and measure ads, with your consent where the law requires it. V2 pages run no analytics or marketing tracking, and Biberks sets no cookies on them. Most V2 tools work in your browser, and what you enter isn’t sent to us.
- Some V2 tools save settings, history or favourites in your browser’s local storage. No V2 tool contacts another company’s service.
- Older V1 pages show Google AdSense ads, and some send what you enter to another service.
- Our web server, like any website’s, records your IP address and the pages and files your browser requests.
Pages and tools on the new version (V2)
Advertising: Google AdSense
V2 pages show ads from Google AdSense, except the Contact pages, the 404 page and removed-tool notices. Google’s ad code runs in the page and decides where ads appear. Google and its partners may use cookies or similar technologies to show ads, including personalised ads, and to measure them, and receive information such as your IP address, browser details and the address of the page you’re viewing. The ad code also loads the other Google services described for V1 pages below (a consent-message service, invalid-traffic checks and a reCAPTCHA frame). Google explains this in How Google uses information from sites that use its services, and you can manage personalised ads in My Ad Center.
Where the law requires it, Google shows a consent message before using cookies for ads, and a “Privacy and cookie settings” link that Google adds to the page lets you change your choice later. This message is run by Google, not by Biberks, and we haven’t independently checked which countries it appears in. The Privacy choices button at the bottom of V2 pages explains this; it can’t change Google’s settings.
No analytics or other tracking
V2 pages run no analytics and no marketing tracking: no Google Analytics, no Google Tag Manager and no Meta Pixel. Apart from Google’s ad code, V2 pages load their code, styles and fonts only from biberks.com, and Biberks sets no cookies on V2 pages.
Tools that work in your browser
Most V2 tools do their work on your device. What you type, paste or open stays in the page and isn’t sent to us. Closing the tab clears it, unless the tool saves something on your device as described below.
Files your browser downloads from us
Every page, its code and its styles come from our server. Some tools also download files when they need them: helper code (such as a PDF reader, a ZIP maker and a QR code library), data files (such as the Baby Name Generator’s name list, the Resume Score Checker’s keyword lists and the Text to Emoji list) and, for the Internet Speed Test, test files used to measure your connection. These files are the same for everyone, and nothing you entered is added to the request.
No outside services in V2 tools
V2 tools don’t contact other companies’ services. We removed the two that had to: What Is My IP, which sent your IP address to ipify (and to ipwho.is for a location), and the YouTube Thumbnail Downloader, which sent the video you asked about to YouTube’s image server. Their old addresses now only explain that the tools are gone.
Website checkers
The AdSense Readiness Checker, SEO Meta Title & Description Checker, Website URL Extractor and HTTP Headers Checker were built to send the web address you entered to our server, which would fetch that page and return the result. In V2 that server part was never switched on, so these pages sent nothing. We removed the AdSense Readiness Checker, the Website URL Extractor and the HTTP Headers Checker; their old addresses now only explain that the tools are gone. The SEO Meta Title & Description Checker now works only in your browser: it measures and previews the title and description you type, and sends nothing.
Contact form
The form on the Contact page is sent to our own server at biberks.com, not to an outside form service. The server emails your name, email address, subject and message to our private mailbox. We use what you send only to reply to you. The email doesn’t include your IP address or browser details, and the server doesn’t keep a copy of your message. To limit automated messages, the server keeps, for each sender, a code made from the IP address with a secret key (never the address itself) and the times the form was sent. It counts only the last 24 hours, and older records are deleted in routine clean-ups. We can’t yet say how long our mailbox provider keeps messages.
Removed: AI Image Detector
We removed the AI Image Detector. It sent the image you checked to an outside detection service, and we couldn’t verify who runs that service, whether it keeps images or how reliable it is. Its old address now only explains that the tool is gone: nothing can be checked or uploaded there.
Share links
Some V2 tools can create a share link that recreates your result. It puts values, such as an amount, a date or a choice, in the part of the page address after the # sign. Names you type are never put in a link or the page address. Browsers don’t send that part of an address to our server or to other sites, but anyone with the link can read the values: they aren’t encrypted. When the page opens, it reads the values and removes them from the address bar before Google’s ad code loads. The Countdown Timer keeps its target time there while a countdown runs, so a refresh brings it back; code running in the page, including Google’s ad code, can read that time. A link in the older format, with the values after a question mark, still works, but opening it sends the whole address, values included, to our server like any page request. A link is only created if you ask for one.
What is saved on your device
Some V2 tools use your browser’s local storage so a choice is still there next time. Local storage is not a cookie: it stays in this browser on this device, isn’t sent to us with your requests, and other websites can’t read it.
- Settings: the Password Generator’s options (never a password), the QR Code Generator’s type and style (never its content), the Pomodoro Timer’s timings and alerts, the World Clock’s cities and 12 or 24-hour choice, the Loan Calculator’s and Pay Calculator’s currency, and the Hijri Date adjustment.
- Saved only if you choose: the Receipt & Invoice Generator saves your business name, phone, email and address only if you tick its Remember box; the Carrier Packet Checklist keeps a draft only if you switch that on.
- History and favourites: the Typing Speed Test keeps your last 10 results, including any name you typed for a test, and the Baby Name Generator keeps up to 50 favourite names.
To remove this information, use the tool’s own control (such as Clear history or Clear draft), or clear the site data for biberks.com in your browser’s settings.
Older pages still in use (V1)
Until their V2 versions are ready, these tools are still served by V1: Currency Converter and Salary Converter. Some older blog pages are also V1 pages.
On every V1 page
- Google AdSense. V1 pages show ads served by Google. Google and its partners may use cookies or similar technologies to show ads, including personalised ads, and to measure them, and receive information such as your IP address, browser details and the page you’re viewing. Google explains this in How Google uses information from sites that use its services, and you can manage personalised ads in My Ad Center.
- Other Google services loaded with the ads. Google’s ad code also loads its consent-message service (fundingchoicesmessages.google.com), which receives the page address; checks for invalid ad traffic (adtrafficquality.google); and loads a reCAPTCHA frame from www.google.com. Each of these receives your IP address and browser details.
- Fonts from Google. V1 pages load fonts from Google Fonts (fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com), which receives your IP address and browser details with that request.
- A script from Tailwind. V1 pages load a script from Tailwind (cdn.tailwindcss.com) that runs inside the page to style it. Like any script running in the page, it can read the page, including what you type. Tailwind’s server receives your IP address and browser details with that request; the site’s referrer policy normally tells it only that the request came from biberks.com, not which page.
- Cookie notice. V1 pages show a cookie notice with an Accept button. Accepting saves that choice in your browser’s local storage. The notice doesn’t switch ads on or off: they load either way.
V1 tools that send information elsewhere
- Currency Converter asks open.er-api.com for exchange rates. The request includes the currency you convert from and your IP address, but not the amount.
Server logs
Like any website, our web server, run by our hosting provider, records each request it receives: your IP address, the page or file requested (including anything after a question mark in the address), the time, and browser details such as the User-Agent and, depending on the server’s settings, the referring page. These logs are used to deliver the site, keep it secure and fix problems.
Cookies, local storage and other storage
- Cookies set by Biberks: none on V2 pages.
- Third-party cookies: on pages with ads (V2 and V1), Google (for AdSense) may set or read its own cookies or similar identifiers, with your consent where the law requires it.
- Local storage: used by the V2 tools listed above, and by the V1 cookie notice to remember that you accepted it.
- Server logs: kept by our web server, as described above. They are not stored on your device.
You can delete cookies and site data, or block third-party cookies, in your browser’s settings. Blocking cookies doesn’t affect how V2 tools work.
How we use information
We use the information described here to run and secure the site, fix problems, and reply to messages you send us. We don’t sell or rent the information you send us through the contact form, and we don’t receive what you enter into tools that work in your browser.
Your rights and choices
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to:
- ask what personal information we hold about you;
- ask us to correct or delete it;
- object to or ask us to restrict how we use it;
- limit advertising and tracking cookies, using your browser settings, the ad settings above and, where Google shows it, its “Privacy and cookie settings” link;
- delete cookies and site data stored in your browser.
To make a request, contact us using the details below.
Children
Biberks is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.
Links to other websites
Pages and tools link to other websites. We are not responsible for their content or how they handle information; please read their own privacy policies.
Changes to this policy
We update this policy when the site changes, including as pages move from V1 to V2, and change the Last updated date at the top. For a tool-by-tool explanation of what each tool sends and saves, see What runs in your browser.
Contact
For privacy questions or requests, use the contact page.