Privacy — the plain-language promise
The GG Network is free for a reason: it exists to help, not to harvest. Here is exactly what that means — in plain words, no legal fog.
What we never do
- No account, no sign-up, no name and no email required to use any tool.
- No ads, no ad-targeting, no third-party trackers, no analytics that follow you around.
- We never sell or share your data — because we don't collect it in the first place.
- Everything you type into a tool — numbers, text, files — runs on your device and never leaves it. The tools are Rust compiled to WebAssembly and executed right in your browser.
The only things we ever receive
…and only because you chose to send them:
- Suggestions. If you use the suggestion box, we get the text you typed (and your email only if you add one). That's how we learn what to build next.
- Favorites. The tools you star are saved in your browser's local storage — on your device only. We can't see them.
- Search. Searching filters the tools right in your browser. Nothing is sent anywhere unless you choose to turn an empty search into a suggestion.
If enough people ask for the same thing, that's our signal to build it. That's the only "data" we care about — the kind you choose to tell us.
One exception: attacks
Being straight with you, because the promise above is absolute and this is the single thing that sits outside it.
- This site is scanned constantly by automated tools looking for software we do not run — probing for
/wp-admin,.envfiles, database backups and the like. Thousands of such requests a day. - Those requests are logged, including the address they came from, what they asked for and what we returned. It is how we can tell whether anything is getting through.
- A request is only logged if it matches one of those attack patterns. Reading a page, using a tool or browsing the blog is never logged — not the page, not your address, not anything.
- Nothing logged is ever sold, shared or used for advertising. It exists to keep the site standing up.
If you are here to use a tool, none of this touches you. If you are here to probe the site, it does.
Partner links, in full
If a creator sent you here, their link carries a tag like ?via=theirname so they get credit if you buy. Here is exactly what that does, because "affiliate link" usually means something worse:
- The tag is kept in your browser's session storage — it is erased the moment you close the tab. It is not a cookie and it does not follow you to any other site.
- It is used in one place: if you click Buy, the creator's name is added to that checkout link so they earn their commission.
- If you never buy, nothing about your visit is recorded or sent anywhere — not to us, not to the creator, not to anyone.
- The creator is told how many sales they made. They are never told who you are.
One exception, stated plainly: on the GG Pro store page only, we load a script from our affiliate platform (Endorsely) so creators get paid automatically. That script sets its own cookie. It runs only on the store page — never on the home page, never on any of the free tools, never on the blog. If you never open the store page, it never loads at all. We could have put it on every page to track more; we didn't, and that's the point.
Why it works this way
Knowledge shouldn't sit behind a paywall or a data-grab. The 200-plus everyday tools are genuinely free; a small set of professional tools (GG Pro) pays the bills so the free ones can stay open, private and ad-free. That's the whole model.