Privacy
The short version. What you write in Hutchpad stays in your browser. This site does carry ads, though, and ads use Google's cookies. Those are two different things, so they are written up separately below.
1. What you type never reaches us
Notes, images, calculations — anything you put in a box goes into storage inside your own browser (IndexedDB). It is not sent to our server, and we cannot see it. There are no accounts and no sign-in, so there is no way to connect anything you wrote to a person in the first place.
Clear your browsing data or close a private window and it goes with it. We do not hold a backup. Keep a copy of anything that matters.
There are exceptions. These four do send a request out.
- Exchange rates — asks frankfurter.dev, which publishes the European Central Bank's reference rates, once a day. All that goes out is which base currency you need.
- Dictionary — only when you press Look up, and it goes to two places. First, the single word you typed goes to Wiktionary (en.wiktionary.org). Second, to show the meaning in Korean, the English definition that came back is sent to a translation service (api.mymemory.translated.net) — this second request only happens while the app is set to Korean. That word and that definition are all that leave; nothing you wrote in any other box goes with them, and neither does anything about who you are (there are no accounts and no cookies). Don't press the button and there is no request.
- Radio — fetches the station list from Radio Browser (all.api.radio-browser.info), and when you press play, streams from that station's own server. The station list is fetched as soon as the page opens if this box is on your board, whether or not you press anything. The other server sees the connection and your IP address — the same trace you leave opening any site on the internet. To stop the request entirely, put the radio box away with the ×.
- Links — the addresses you save open only when you click them. Icons are not fetched in advance, so if you don't click, nothing goes to those sites.
One thing worth being clear about, because it is easy to assume otherwise. The QR code box does not send anything out. The code is generated inside your browser, which is what makes it different from a website that builds one for you — so an internal address or a password is safe to put in it. Korean word of the day makes no request either; the words ship inside the app.
Alerts and sound — the schedule and timer boxes ask for browser notification permission so they can tell you when the time comes. Say no and they still make a sound. The alert is created on your own computer and never passes through our server, which is also why it will not ring if you close the tab.
Recording your screen — press Record screen in the video box and the browser opens its own picker for a screen, window or tab. That picker appears every time you press the button, never when the page loads. The sound of what you picked can be captured with it (the same browser window asks whether to share audio). Tick Microphone too and the browser asks for the microphone as well. The recording is put together inside your own browser, and so is the file you export — nothing is uploaded.
Renaming a folder of files — press Choose a folder in the rename box and the browser asks whether this site may make changes to the files in it. Only the names of files inside that one folder change; the files themselves are untouched, and no other folder becomes visible. Nothing leaves your computer, and Undo puts back only the last batch you renamed.
Installing it (Add to Home Screen) — put Hutchpad on a phone home screen or a desktop taskbar and the browser stores the files that draw the screen (HTML, CSS, fonts) on your device so it opens without a connection. Those are program files, identical for everyone, and nothing you wrote is included — that stays in the browser storage described above. To remove it, clear the site data or uninstall the app.
2. Ads — Google uses cookies
This site shows ads through Google AdSense.
- Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this website or other websites.
- Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to users based on their visit to this site and/or other sites on the internet.
- You can opt out of personalized advertising in Google Ads Settings. To manage third-party vendor cookies in one place, use aboutads.info.
- Visitors from the European Economic Area, the UK and Switzerland are shown a consent notice first.
3. Visit statistics — a headcount, nothing more
Separately, we count how many people visit each day, and we do that ourselves. Opening a page adds 1 to today's number. All our database (Google Firebase) keeps is three numbers per day: how many times pages were opened, how many people came, and how many came back after visiting on an earlier day. To tell a return visit apart, your browser keeps the date of your last visit, on your device only (it is never sent to us). Nothing that could identify you, such as a name or device details, is sent, and no cookies are used.
This site uses Web Analytics from Vercel, which hosts it. Knowing which guides actually get read is how we decide what to write next.
- What is collected: which page was viewed, which country, device and browser, and which site you came from.
- No cookies are used, visitors are not identified as individuals, and nobody is followed across other sites.
- What you type into the boxes — notes, schedules, saved addresses — is not part of this. As section 1 says, that never leaves your browser.
- The details are in Vercel's privacy notice.
4. Cookies — what sets them, and how to refuse
A cookie is a small record a site leaves in your browser. On this site the only thing that uses cookies is advertising. The tools and the visit statistics do not — the tools use browser storage instead.
If you would rather not store cookies, your browser can refuse them.
- Chrome — Settings › Privacy and security › Third-party cookies
- Edge — Settings › Cookies and site permissions › Manage cookies and site data
- Safari — Settings › Privacy › Cookies and website data
- Firefox — Settings › Privacy & Security › Cookies and Site Data
Refuse every cookie and Hutchpad's tools still work exactly the same. The ads you see will just be less related to you.
5. Children
Hutchpad is not built for children and does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 14.
6. Changes
If this policy changes, the change and the date it takes effect are posted on this page.
7. Contact
Privacy inquiries: darock.market@gmail.com
Effective: August 12, 2026 · Revised September 21, 2026 (removed the "To a Reel" paragraph; that button is gone)
8. Font license
The Korean typeface in the Newsprint theme is NanumMyeongjo, made by NAVER. (© NAVER Corporation · SIL Open Font License 1.1 — full text here)