Privacy Policy — NS Ascertain

Introduction

NS Ascertain (nsascertain.com) is dedicated to building transparent, high-performance, and privacy-respecting browser-based utilities. This Privacy Policy outlines our data handling principles across all our web pages, technical publications, native tools, and subdomains, including toolkit.nsascertain.com.

Information we collect

We do not collect personal identification information, nor do we require user registration, logins, or profiling. All our utility tools are engineered to execute entirely inside your local web browser: text, images, and documents entered or uploaded are processed on your local device and are never transmitted to our servers for storage or server-side analysis.

Like virtually all internet services, our hosting infrastructure maintains standard server access logs for infrastructure security, network integrity, and traffic diagnosis. These logs may record technical parameters including your Internet Protocol (IP) address (which is anonymized where possible), browser user agent, requested URLs, referring pages, and access timestamps. This information is utilized strictly for service reliability and threat prevention—never to construct individual user profiles.

Cookies and local storage

NS Ascertain may store small amounts of data on your device in the following ways:

• Theme preference: May be stored in localStorage. This preference remains on your device and is not transmitted across the network.
• Tool feedback & preferences: May be stored in localStorage so the interface remembers your local choices (such as calculator units or formatting preferences). This data is never sent to our servers.
• Advertising cookies: Third-party advertising partners (such as Google AdSense) may set and read cookies on your browser, as detailed in the Advertising section below.

We do not set first-party tracking cookies for cross-site behavioral profiling.

Third-Party Advertising & Google AdSense

We display advertisements through Google AdSense and affiliated certified ad networks to support the free operation of our software tools. In accordance with Google AdSense Publisher Policies:

• Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve advertisements based on your prior visits to this website or other websites on the internet.
• Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its certified ad partners to serve personalized advertisements to you based on your visits to NS Ascertain and other sites across the web.
• You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings at https://adssettings.google.com.
• Alternatively, you can opt out of a broad range of third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance Consumer Choice page at https://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or Your Online Choices at https://www.youronlinechoices.com/.

To understand how Google manages data collected across partner sites, please review: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use this site. Google Analytics collects anonymised data about page visits and user behaviour. For more information, see: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Third-party links

Our tools and any blog or resource pages may link to external websites that we do not operate. If you follow a third-party link, you leave NS Ascertain; this policy does not apply there. We are not responsible for the privacy practices, content, or security of external sites, and we encourage you to read their policies before sharing information.

Children's privacy

Our tools are general-purpose utilities intended for a broad audience. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe we have inadvertently collected such information, please contact us so we can delete it promptly.

Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our practices, tools, or legal requirements. When we make changes, we will post the revised policy on this page and update the "Last updated" date. Your continued use of NS Ascertain after changes are posted constitutes your acceptance of the updated policy, except where a stricter requirement applies under law.

Contact

Questions about this policy or your privacy? Email us at support@nsascertain.com.