Privacy policy

Last updated September 10, 2026

This describes what ColorScreens actually does today rather than what a policy template assumes. Where something is planned but not yet running, it says so.

The short version

There are no accounts, no sign-ups and no forms today, and no color you pick is ever sent to a server. Every calculation happens in your browser. Since August 3, 2026 the site does run Google Analytics, which sets cookies and is described in full below.

One thing is planned rather than running: an optional account for extras that genuinely need one, such as keeping your saved colors in sync between devices. If it arrives, this policy will be updated before it does, signing up will always be a choice rather than a requirement, and everything the site does today will keep working without one.

What is stored on your device

A few items in your browser's local storage: whether you chose light or dark mode, any palettes you have saved, your projects (the colors and results you save, each with a note of the page or file it came from), a short history of colors you have recently picked or generated, and your settings for checks, exports and reports. None of it ever leaves your device, none of it is a cookie, and clearing your browser data removes all of it. If you never touch any of those, nothing is stored at all.

Separately, Google Analytics sets its own cookies. Those do leave your device, and they are described under Analytics below.

Colors you choose

Colors, palettes and settings live in the part of the address after the hash symbol. That part of a URL is never sent to a server by design, which is why a link can carry your exact color without anyone else seeing it. Sharing a link shares the color with whoever you send it to, and with nobody else.

Server logs

The site is served as static files by a hosting provider, which keeps standard access logs containing IP address, browser user agent, the page requested and the time. These are generated by the host rather than by this site, are used to keep the service running and to detect abuse, and are not combined with anything else or used to build a profile.

Advertising and affiliate links

None of this is running yet. Space is reserved for advertising in the layout, but no advertising code is loaded, no affiliate link exists on the site, and no advertising network receives anything about your visit. What follows describes what will happen when that changes, so that it is written down before it is true rather than after.

Google AdSense is the intended network. It serves ads from Google's own servers, which means Google receives your IP address and the page you are on, and it uses cookies to limit how often you see the same ad and to measure whether an ad was clicked. Where you have not consented to personalised advertising, or where local law requires it, Google serves non-personalised ads instead, which still use a cookie for frequency capping and fraud prevention. You can review and turn off ad personalisation for your Google account at My Ad Center.

Affiliate links may appear in guides, where a product is worth naming. An affiliate link carries a code identifying this site, so the retailer knows the visit came from here and pays a commission on a purchase. It costs you nothing and it does not change the price. Any such link will be marked as affiliate where it appears, and no guide will recommend something because it pays rather than because it is right.

Advertising or conversion pixels - a Meta pixel, or the equivalent from another platform - may be added if this site ever advertises itself. A pixel reports back to that platform that you visited a particular page, which is how an advertiser learns whether an ad worked. This is the most invasive thing on this page and it is listed here so that adding one is a decision rather than a detail.

Two things will hold whatever else changes. This page is updated before any of it goes live, not after. And ads never appear inside the fullscreen color view, because a screen filled edge to edge with one color is the entire point of the site and an ad on top of it would break the thing you came for.

Analytics

Google Analytics 4 has been running since August 3, 2026. It loads gtag.js from googletagmanager.com and reports to Google. It sets cookies, named _ga and _ga_<id>, which record a randomly generated visitor identifier so that two visits from the same browser can be counted as one returning visitor rather than two new ones. They expire after two years unless you clear them sooner.

What it collects is the ordinary set: pages viewed, how long the visit lasted, the referring site, approximate location derived from your IP address, and the device, browser and screen size. Google is the processor for that data and can use it across the services it operates. Nothing about the colors you pick is included, because none of that reaches a server in the first place.

An earlier version of this page said that if analytics were ever added it would be a cookieless product that does not track across sites. That is not what was chosen, and pretending otherwise would be worse than saying so. If you would rather not be counted, the Google Analytics opt-out add-on blocks it everywhere, and any content blocker or a browser set to reject cookies will do the same here.

Analytics runs on the live site only. Preview builds of the site report nothing.

Children

The site is a general-audience utility and is not directed at children. It asks for no name, age, email address or any other detail about who you are, from anyone. The analytics described above measure visits rather than people, and no attempt is made to work out who a visitor is or how old they are.

Your rights

This site holds no account, no email address and no record of anything you did with the color tools, so there is nothing here to request, correct or delete. The analytics identifier and the approximate location derived from your IP address are held by Google rather than by us, and are covered by Google's privacy policy. Deleting the _ga cookies from your browser detaches you from the existing identifier; the opt-out above stops the collection instead.

If you are in a jurisdiction with a statutory right of access or erasure over that data, Google is the party that holds it, and [email protected] will point you at the right request form.

Changes to this policy

The date at the top reflects the last substantive change. Any change that affects what is collected will be made here before the change takes effect, not after.