Privacy Policy

ScreenTail is run by Vivek Kumar, personally, from New Delhi, India. There is no company behind it. He decides what the site collects and why, and he is the person responsible for any personal data it handles.

Questions, requests and complaints about privacy go to contact@screentail.com. The same person reads all of it.

The tools collect nothing. The colors, patterns, timers, sounds, screensavers, prank screens and wallpapers all work on your own device. A wallpaper you make is drawn in your browser and saved straight to your device; nothing is uploaded, and no copy is kept.

There are no accounts, no sign-up, no forms and no newsletter. The site never asks for your name or email address, and there is no server-side code that could store them: every page is a static file.

Page views. When a page first appears on your screen, it sends one short message to ScreenTail's own page counter at count.bedrockproject.app, which runs on Cloudflare and is run by the same person as this site. The message holds the address of the page (without anything after a ? or #), the name of the website that linked you to it, if any, and whether your browser reports that it is being controlled by software. The counter adds one to that page's count for the day. It does not store your IP address or browser details, sets no cookie, gives you no ID and stores nothing in your browser.

So that one visitor counts once a day for each page, the counter turns the date, the page, your IP address and your browser details into a one-way code made with a secret key, and keeps only that code. The code cannot be turned back into your IP address, and it is deleted within three days. The daily counts are deleted after 400 days. Known bots and automated browsers are not counted.

If you choose to email, your message sits in the inbox it arrives at, like any other email, and is used only to answer you.

ScreenTail sets no cookies. The Cookie Policy describes the site's browser storage.

One item of local storage, kept in your own browser:

• screentail-theme: your light or dark theme, stored only when you press the theme button, so the next page opens the way you left it.

This setting is never sent anywhere, and clearing your browser's site data removes it. Settings inside a tool, such as a gray level or a pattern size, last only while the page is open and are not stored.

The site is hosted by Cloudflare, Inc., on its Workers platform. The pages are built from the site's code, which is kept on GitLab; visitors never connect to GitLab.

Like any web host, Cloudflare necessarily receives each request in order to deliver the page: your IP address, your browser and device details, and the address of the page you asked for. It processes that information to deliver the site and to protect it from abuse, under its own privacy policy. ScreenTail does not use it to identify you or to build a profile of you.

Any request records Cloudflare keeps are kept under Cloudflare's own rules and retention periods. If ScreenTail turns on any other Cloudflare feature that records visits for its own use, this policy will be updated first.

Apart from the host, no page loads anything from another company: no advertising, no affiliate links, no embedded videos, no external images, no social buttons and no third-party scripts. The fonts and sounds are part of the site itself.

Some guides link to other websites, such as a manufacturer's own documentation. Following a link takes you to a site with its own privacy practices, which this policy does not cover.

Three tools use a camera or a microphone: the Webcam Test and the Screen Mirror use the camera, and the Microphone Test uses the microphone. They all work the same way:

• Nothing is asked for until you press the button. Then the page asks your browser for the camera only, or the microphone only, never both, and your browser asks you. If you say no, the page explains how to change that and does not ask again by itself.
• The picture and sound stay on your device. The camera picture is shown on the page, and the sound is turned into a level meter and a waveform, in your browser. Nothing is recorded, no snapshot is taken, nothing is stored, and nothing is sent to ScreenTail, its host or anyone else.
• It stops when you do. Pressing Stop, hiding the tab or leaving the page turns the camera or microphone off.
• Device names stay on the page. The tools can show the name your browser gives your camera or microphone, and the Webcam Test shows the size and frame rate the camera reports. That text is shown to you and not sent anywhere.

Your browser may remember your answer to its permission question for this site; you can change it at any time in your browser's site settings.

You can write to contact@screentail.com to ask what information relating to you the site holds, to have it corrected or deleted, or to complain about how it has been handled. No particular form of words is needed.

Bear in mind what is realistically possible: the site holds no account and nothing that identifies you by name, so apart from an email you have sent, it generally holds nothing to find.

The site is not aimed at children, and it asks no one for a name, an age or an email address. If you believe a child's information has reached the site anyway, for example by email, write to the address above and it will be deleted.

This page describes the site as it is, so it changes when the site does. It is updated before any other analytics or any cookies are added, before any tool's use of a camera or microphone changes, and before any advertising or affiliate links appear. Each version carries its effective date at the top.

The Terms of Use cover using the site itself, and the contact page explains how to reach us.