Privacy Policy

Summary

• We do not record or store your keystrokes. Keyboard input stays in your browser for testing.
• We use analytics and cookies to understand site usage and improve performance.
• We may use ads or affiliate links and will disclose them clearly.
• Blog comments are reviewed before publication. You can comment without creating an account, and an optional email address is never shown publicly.
• Newsletters require your separate choice. Sending us a message or leaving a comment does not subscribe you unless you select the newsletter option. No confirmation email is required. Every newsletter includes an unsubscribe link.

Information We Collect

We keep collection minimal. We may collect the following:

• Usage data: Page views, device type, browser type, and approximate location (city/region) from standard analytics tools.
• Cookies and similar technologies: Used for preferences (like theme) and analytics.
• Contact information (if you send it): If you email us or submit feedback, we receive the details you provide.
• Blog comments (if you submit one): We receive the display name, comment, and optional email address you choose to provide. We also create short-lived pseudonymous anti-abuse hashes from request data, but do not store the raw IP address with your comment.
• Newsletter subscriptions (if you choose one): We keep your email address, subscription status, the form where you opted in, the consent date and wording version, and delivery or suppression records needed to operate the newsletter. A subscription record does not mean we have verified ownership of the email address.

What We Do Not Collect

• We do not collect or store the actual keys you press in the keyboard tester.
• We do not sell or rent our newsletter mailing list. Advertising partners may process identifiers and browsing information for advertising as described below.
• We do not knowingly collect sensitive personal data.

How We Use Information

• To improve site performance and fix issues.
• To understand which tools are most useful.
• To respond to support requests or feedback.
• To review, publish, manage, and protect blog discussions from spam or abuse.
• To send the newsletter you explicitly requested, and to honor unsubscribe requests.

Blog Comments

Comments are available on English blog articles. No Google or other social sign-in is required. Every visitor comment is held for manual approval before it can appear publicly.

• Public after approval: Your chosen display name, comment text, and submission date may be shown below the article and in a recent-comments highlight on the English blog landing page.
• Kept private: An optional email address is kept in our protected moderation records. It is not published, used for Gravatar, or sold. Choosing the separate newsletter option when successfully submitting your comment also creates a private newsletter subscription, subject to existing unsubscribe and delivery-suppression preferences.
• Spam prevention: We use Cloudflare Turnstile, a pseudonymous browser identifier, rate limits, and temporary keyed hashes to deter automated or repeated abuse.
• Moderation: We may approve, decline, mark as spam, or remove comments. Approved author replies are clearly labelled.

Newsletter and Email Updates

Newsletter signup is optional and separate from feedback, contact, advertising, guest-post requests, and blog comments. We do not add earlier correspondents or form submissions to the newsletter automatically. If you select the newsletter option and successfully submit a valid form, we save your email address as subscribed without a confirmation email, unless an existing unsubscribe or delivery-suppression preference prevents subscription. We record when and where the choice was made and the consent wording version; this records the subscription request, not verified ownership of the address. Leaving the option unchecked does not affect your request or comment.

Updates cover new or meaningfully updated tools and blog articles. Each newsletter highlights the main update and four other tools or articles to explore, along with a link to our guest-post guidelines. We may combine updates to avoid unnecessary messages. We do not sell or rent the mailing list and do not use tracking pixels in newsletter emails.

Earlier enquiry or comment addresses may appear in our private contact records as awaiting permission. These contacts are not subscribed, are not sent to our newsletter delivery service, and receive no newsletters unless they make a separate newsletter choice. Contact-review copies expire 30 days after being added; the original enquiry or comment follows its separate retention rules.

Newsletter records are stored privately with restricted access. We use Resend to deliver newsletters. Resend receives the email address and message content needed for delivery, and returns delivery, bounce, and complaint information so we can stop sending to invalid addresses or people who do not want further messages. Our newsletter sending configuration disables email-open and click tracking.

Every newsletter has an unsubscribe link that does not require an account or password. You may also contact [email protected] for subscription or privacy help. After unsubscribing, you will receive no further newsletters. Selecting the newsletter option on another form does not automatically undo an unsubscribe, bounce, or complaint; contact us if you want help subscribing again. We retain only the minimal suppression record needed to honor these preferences and prevent accidental resubscription.

Subscription records are retained while you remain subscribed. Older unconfirmed signup records are not automatically added to the mailing list and are removed after 30 days unless replaced by a new, explicit subscription request. The separate retention period for a contact message or comment still applies to that original record.

Website Help Chat

Our automated website-help chat answers questions about public publishing prices, submission guidelines, and website tools using prepared responses. Please do not enter personal information, passwords, contact details, or private correspondence. The helper does not provide private information about the site's operator or other people.

When you send a question, it is processed on our website server to select a response. This helper does not send questions to an external AI provider, store a chat transcript, create a visitor profile, or save the conversation in cookies or browser storage. The visible conversation stays in the current page and is removed when you reload that page or use Clear chat. Ordinary hosting and security logs can still contain request metadata such as an IP address and request time.

Optional saved support and human replies: The full-page support chat is a separate feature. It asks you to agree before saving a conversation. Messages, automated answers, human replies, conversation identifiers and timestamps are stored privately on our server and are available to you and the site owner through authenticated access. A “Talk to a human” request enters a queue; replies may come later. Return to the chat to check for a response. We do not send email alerts for these messages.

Guest access uses an essential, HTTP-only support-session cookie lasting up to 30 days, subject to browser and server session expiry. Clearing it or signing out can remove access to unlinked guest history. Optional Sign in with Google, when configured, links conversations to your verified Google account identifier and email so you can return on another device. When Google provides your display name and profile photo, we use them to identify your signed-in account in the chat. These profile fields are kept in your support session, not in chat messages. Google handles authentication; we do not receive your Google password or access your Gmail, contacts or Drive. Google sign-in resources load only when you choose to display its sign-in button. See Google’s Privacy Policy.

Saved chat messages are not sent to an external AI model. The dedicated chat and owner inbox contain no advertising or analytics. Inactive conversations are removed after 90 days. You can delete an accessible conversation using Delete chat, or request help through our contact form. Security rate counters use hashed network/session identifiers and expire within a day. Do not submit sensitive personal information, payment details or passwords.

The separate AI Assistant tool is a different, optional feature: submitted messages and recent context are sent to Groq to generate replies, and its recent conversation can remain in that browser. Do not send personal information to that feature. Opening website-help chat does not activate the separate AI Assistant tool.

Analytics and Session Tools

We use third-party analytics tools to understand site usage:

• Microsoft Clarity: Provides session replays and heatmaps to help us improve the user experience. We apply masking to sensitive tool and form areas. Clarity processes usage information such as pages visited, device type, and interaction patterns; its cookie and session behavior depends on the consent signals it receives. Masked or pseudonymous data is not necessarily anonymous.
• Google Analytics 4: Collects aggregated site usage data including page views, session duration, and traffic sources. Where storage is permitted, it uses cookies to distinguish visitors.
• Ahrefs Web Analytics: Measures traffic, referring sources, and page usage. Ahrefs describes this service as cookie-free and states that it does not store IP addresses with analytics data. See Ahrefs Web Analytics.
• Cloudflare Web Analytics: Uses a performance beacon to measure page views, loading times, and browser performance. Cloudflare states that Web Analytics does not track individual visitors across its customers' websites. See Cloudflare's collection information.

Where our Google consent message applies to visitors in the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, it communicates their choices to Google Analytics and Google's advertising tools through Consent Mode. The choice about storing or accessing information on your device also applies to Analytics cookies. Advertising choices control advertising storage, the use of data for advertising, and personalized ads.

On ordinary web pages using advanced Consent Mode, declining Analytics cookies prevents Google Analytics from storing or reading those cookies. Google may still receive limited cookieless measurement signals, such as page views and browser or device information, and use them to estimate overall site activity. These signals do not include the keys you press or text you type into our tools.

We use these reports to understand site use and improve the website. Cookie-free measurement can still involve requests to a service provider; it does not mean that no information is processed. The Google consent message controls supported Google purposes and the choices forwarded to Clarity; it is not a universal switch for every external resource.

Google Ad Manager, AdSense and Advertising

We use Google Ad Manager and Google AdSense, provided by Google LLC, as part of our advertising setup. Ad delivery depends on the page, location, available demand, and the active provider configuration. Here is how these services may use information:

• Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites.
• Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.
• Personalized advertising: Google may use information about your browsing activity to show you ads that are more relevant to your interests. You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings.
• Third-party ad vendors and ad networks may also serve ads on this site. You can visit the Digital Advertising Alliance YourAdChoices control page to opt out of third-party cookies used for personalized advertising.

For more information about how Google uses data when you use our site, visit Google's Privacy & Terms page.

Adapex Advertising and Data Use

When you use our website and enter your email address on our website (either to log in, or sign up for a newsletter, or similar), we may share with solution providers and its group companies information that we collect from you, such as your email (in hashed, pseudonymous form), IP address, or information about your browser or operating system, with any of the following, acting as “joint controllers” (as applicable and defined in the GDPR). This Site is affiliated with Adapex INC for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and Adapex INC will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. Learn more about Adapex’s data usage here.

Adapex's advertising stack can connect to demand, identity, measurement, and fraud-prevention partners. These partners may process IP addresses, browser and device information, pages viewed, advertising identifiers, and ad interactions. The partners contacted can vary between visits. Where the European consent message applies, its partner and purpose controls provide information about participating vendors and available choices. Adapex's linked privacy notice explains its processing and contact options.

Yandex Advertising Network

For visitors for whom Yandex advertising is enabled, we may use the Yandex Advertising Network (YAN) to display and measure advertisements. Yandex and its advertising partners may use cookies or similar technologies and process information such as IP address, approximate location, browser and device information, pages viewed, and ad interactions for ad delivery, measurement, fraud prevention, and, where permitted, personalization.

YAN is enabled on eligible tool pages for visitors identified as located in Russia. This routing is based on visitor location, not the language of the page. Yandex is separate from the Google advertising route and its European consent message. Learn more in the Yandex Ads Privacy Policy.

Hosting, Security and External Resources

HostArmada hosts this website, and Cloudflare provides network delivery and security services. Processing a web request involves information such as your IP address, requested URL, browser information, and request time. Cloudflare Turnstile is used on protected forms to distinguish legitimate submissions from automated abuse; it can process browser and device signals for that purpose.

Some pages load fonts from Google Fonts and scripts or styles from external content-delivery networks. When your browser requests those resources, the provider receives connection information such as your IP address and browser headers. These resource requests are separate from accepting personalized advertising.

Affiliate Disclosure (FTC)

To keep the site free, we may also use affiliate links. If you click an affiliate link and make a purchase, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. We will clearly label or disclose affiliate links and sponsored content when present.

As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Our Amazon links are ordinary outbound links and do not load Amazon product widgets on KeyboardTester.click. If you follow one, Amazon may process the referral identifier and information about your visit under its own privacy practices.

Third-Party Links

Our site may link to third-party websites. We are not responsible for their privacy practices. Please review their policies before using those sites.

Cookies and Your Choices

Where our European consent message applies and its settings control is available, use the Privacy and cookie settings link in the footer to review or change your choices.

Our site uses the following types of cookies:

• Essential storage: Stores your theme preference (dark/light mode) in localStorage. On comment-enabled articles, a random first-party cookie that expires after 30 days helps prevent duplicate and abusive submissions. It is not used for advertising.
• Analytics cookies: Used by Microsoft Clarity and Google Analytics, where storage is permitted, to understand how visitors use the site.
• Advertising cookies: Set by Google AdSense and its partners to serve relevant advertisements. These cookies may track your browsing activity across multiple websites.
• Yandex advertising storage (only if YAN is enabled): Yandex and its advertising partners may use cookies or similar identifiers for ad delivery, measurement, fraud prevention, and permitted personalization. Its availability is limited to the separate Russia route described above.

You can control or disable cookies through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to block third-party cookies specifically. Disabling cookies may affect site features such as saved preferences and ad personalization. You can also opt out of Google's personalized advertising at adssettings.google.com.

Purposes and International Processing

We process information to provide the tools you request, respond to messages, protect the service, measure usage, and support advertising. Where applicable law requires a legal basis, this may be your consent, steps needed to provide a requested service, our legitimate interests in operating and securing the website, or a legal obligation. These grounds depend on the information and purpose; they do not make every advertising or analytics activity exempt from consent.

Our hosting, analytics, advertising, and email providers operate internationally, so information may be processed outside your country. The linked providers' privacy notices describe their processing locations and transfer arrangements. Contact us for information about the arrangements relevant to your request.

Your Privacy Requests

Depending on your location and the law that applies, you may have rights to request access to, correction of, or deletion of personal information, to object to or restrict certain processing, or to request a portable copy. Where processing relies on consent, you may withdraw that consent; withdrawal does not change the lawfulness of earlier processing. You may also have the right to complain to your local data protection authority.

For requests concerning information we hold, contact [email protected] or use the About page contact form. Tell us which service or submission your request concerns without sending passwords or sensitive documents. We may ask for proportionate information to verify the request. For data controlled independently by an advertising or analytics provider, its privacy notice describes how to contact that provider. Clearing browser cookies does not delete information already held by us or a provider.

Data Retention

We keep analytics data only as long as needed for performance and reporting. If you contact us, we retain communications only as needed to respond and provide support.

For blog comments, anti-abuse and duplicate-detection hashes are cleared after 30 days, and optional email addresses are cleared after 90 days. Unreviewed comments are moved to Trash after 90 days; Spam and Trash records are deleted after a further 30 days. Approved public comments may remain with the article until they are removed through moderation or after a valid deletion request.

If you separately choose a newsletter subscription, clearing the email address from a comment does not unsubscribe you. Newsletter retention and unsubscribe choices are described above.

Security

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect data. No online service is 100% secure, so we encourage safe browsing practices.

Children's Privacy

KeyboardTester.click is not intended for children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy from time to time. Changes will be posted on this page with an updated effective date.

Effective Date: October 24, 2026

Contact Us

If you have questions about this policy, use the contact form on the About page or @reveal our support email .

Business contact

For guest posts, advertising and other business enquiries.

WhatsApp messages only. No calls.

Email: [email protected]