tools.gripe

Terms & privacy · last updated November 11, 2026

These terms cover every site in the tools.gripe network, meaning the tools listed on tools.gripe (calendar.gripe, calc.gripe, pdf.gripe and the rest), plus their alternate domains. They explain the conditions on which the tools are offered, and what happens to your data. In these terms, "we" and "us" mean the people who run the network.

One exception: short.gripe short.gripe is listed in the network, but it is not covered by these terms. It is a front end for the u4.nz link shortener, and the links it makes are public redirects that u4.nz creates, stores and moderates. Using short.gripe, or any link made with it, is governed by u4.nz's terms and privacy policy, and reports about a short link go to u4.nz.

short.gripe passes what you submit to u4.nz, along with your IP address, browser identification and language. When someone opens a short.gripe link, the requested path and any referring page are passed along too. QR images load from u4.nz. The page keeps your last 30 links in your browser.

The short version

The tools are free. There are no accounts, no ads, no analytics and no tracking cookies.
Most tools process what you give them on your device. A few need our server, or another provider, to do their job. They're listed below.
We don't sell personal data, and our code doesn't keep logs of what you do.
The tools are provided as they are. Check anything important before you rely on it.

Your data

On your device. Most tools process the text, files, images, audio, PDFs, passwords, keys and tokens you give them inside your browser, and don't upload them to us. Some download code or data from their own domain to do this, such as the speech models on asr.gripe and tts.gripe and the word list on pw.gripe.

Tools that use our server. Our code doesn't write logs or keep what these tools see:

ipaddress.gripe shows your IP address, plus the approximate location (coordinates, city, region, country, time zone) and network (provider, ASN) that our host reports for it. It also contacts ip.tools.gripe to find your other address (IPv4 or IPv6). Its map comes from maps.gripe, so the area around your approximate location is only requested from our own server.
browser.gripe / useragent.gripe show the headers your browser sends. On Chromium browsers they ask for extra "client hints" (such as platform version and device model), which your browser may then send.
maps.gripe serves its own map tiles, styles, fonts and place list, so viewing the map sends nothing to anyone else. The map tiles your browser asks our server for show which area you're looking at. Searching for towns and cities, and pasted coordinates, are handled on your device. "◎ Me" uses your browser's location on your device; it isn't sent to us or anyone else.
fast.gripe sends test data to and from our server. It shows the IP address, approximate location and network provider that our host reports for you. To stop one visitor overloading the test, it keeps a rate-limit counter keyed to your IP address in our host's rate limiter, which counts requests over one-minute windows.

Other providers some tools contact. When these load, the provider receives your IP address and normal request details:

asr.gripe and tts.gripe download their speech engine code from jsDelivr (cdn.jsdelivr.net). Your audio and text are still processed on your device.
maps.gripe: only if you click "Search OpenStreetMap for addresses", your search text and the visible map area are sent to OpenStreetMap's Nominatim service (nominatim.openstreetmap.org), once per click. The "Directions" link in a pin opens OpenStreetMap with that pin's coordinates.
html.gripe and markdown.gripe: previews can load images or other resources that your content points to. HTML previews run the code you paste, and that code can contact other sites or send them the preview's content.

exif.gripe: clicking "Show on map" opens maps.gripe, our own map, with the photo's coordinates in the address.

Share links. Some tools can make a link that contains your inputs. Anyone who has the link can read them. The inputs sit after the "#" in the address, which browsers don't send when they request the page.

Saved on your device. Depending on the tool, your browser keeps settings, entered text, notes and their earlier versions, weight entries, scores, results and downloaded speech models. These use local storage, IndexedDB or the browser cache. To remove them, clear the site data for that tool's domain. Files you export and links you share are yours to manage.

calc.gripe keeps its history in a cookie instead. Your browser sends that cookie with requests to calc.gripe, and it expires a year after your last calculation. Our code doesn't read or keep it. We don't back up anything stored in your browser, so we can't recover it.

Our host. The sites run on Cloudflare. Cloudflare processes requests, including your IP address, to deliver and protect the sites, under its own privacy policy. We don't add logging or tracking on top of that.

We don't sell personal data. We and the providers above process request details only to run and protect the tools.

Using the tools

You can use the tools for anything lawful, personal or commercial. Please don't:

use them to break the law or to harm, harass or deceive anyone;
attack, overload or scrape the sites, or get around rate limits (for example by hammering fast.gripe's test endpoints);
interfere with the sites or with other people's use of them.

We may block traffic that does these things.

The tools are made for a general audience and are not directed to children under 13. Minors should use them with a parent's or guardian's permission.

Results are estimates, not advice

Calculators and converters (loans, mortgages, car costs, tips, weight, units, time zones and the like), speed tests, typing ranks, transcriptions and other results are best-effort and may be wrong. They are not financial, legal, medical, tax or other professional advice. Check anything important with a qualified source.

Security tools (passwords, hashes, JWTs, encoding) use standard methods. Keeping your secrets safe is up to you.

No warranty

To the extent the law allows, the tools are provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, availability and non-infringement. We don't promise that any tool will stay available, keep working the same way, or keep data stored in your browser.

Limitation of liability

To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost data, profits or revenue, arising from your use of the tools or your inability to use them.

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability for fraud, or for death or personal injury caused by negligence. Nothing in them excludes any other liability, or any consumer right, that the law doesn't allow to be excluded or limited.

Other sites and software

Some pages link to other websites or credit open-source libraries. We don't control those sites, and their own terms apply. The open-source libraries bundled with the tools keep their own licenses.

Changes

We may change, add or remove tools, and update these terms. Changes apply from the date shown at the top, not to earlier use. Important changes will be noted on this page when they take effect.

If part of this doesn't hold up

If a court decides any part of these terms can't be enforced, that part drops out and the rest still applies.