Cookie Policy · FNDRY39

Cookies are small files a site stores on your device. We use them to run the site, and — only with your consent — to understand usage. Our Programs tools also carry advertising, which is what pays for them; your consent decides whether those ads are personalized, not whether they appear. This page explains what gets set and how you stay in control.

Cookies we use

Type	Purpose	Consent
Essential	Security and core site function — remembering your cookie choice, your light/dark theme and whether you have answered our request for a Google review, and Google reCAPTCHA’s bot check on the contact form.	Always on — no consent needed
Analytics	Google Analytics 4 — understand how the site and tools are used (pages, sessions, and in Screenshot Studio counts such as “12 images exported”). Sets `_ga` cookies.	Opt-in — off until you accept
Browser storage	Screenshot Studio only — keeps your projects and the images in them in your browser’s own storage on your device, so your work is there when you come back. Nothing in it is sent to us.	Needed for the studio to save your work — no consent needed
Advertising	Google AdSense — shows ads on our free tools at programs.fndry39.com only. Google may set cookies to select, deliver, and measure ads.	Always on — personalization is opt-in

We use Google Analytics 4 (GA4) for analytics and Google AdSense for advertising (on the Programs tools only). They work differently on purpose. GA4 loads only after you accept — until then no analytics script runs and no _ga cookie is set. AdSense runs either way, because the ads are what keep the tools free; what your choice controls is whether Google may personalize them. Refuse and Google picks an ad from the page you are reading rather than from anything it knows about you. The two are separate choices: the banner offers “Accept all”, “Reject optional”, and “Customize”, where you can switch analytics and personalized ads on or off independently.

Specific cookies & providers

Essential — us: fndry39_consent remembers your cookie choice (~6 months), fndry39_theme remembers a light/dark theme if you pick one with the toggle (~12 months — it holds the word “light” or “dark” and nothing else, is never set until you choose, and applies across fndry39.com and its subdomains so you only choose once; Screenshot Studio is always dark and ignores it), and fndry39_rate remembers that you have answered our request for a Google review, so we stop asking (~12 months — it holds “rated” once you click “Rate us on Google”, or “no” if you choose “Don’t ask again”, and nothing else; it is never set until you click one of those, and it applies across fndry39.com and its subdomains). The request itself appears on Programs and in Screenshot Studio after about ten minutes of use; that time is counted in the open page’s memory, never stored, and starts again on every visit. These are the only cookies we set for visitors — there are no visitor accounts and no visitor sign-in. (FNDRY39’s own admin area, used only by its operator, sets its own session cookies there and nowhere else.)
Security — Google reCAPTCHA (contact page only): _GRECAPTCHA, set by Google when the contact form loads, so it can tell a person from a bot (~6 months). We class this as essential rather than analytics: without it the form is open to automated abuse, and it runs on no other page. It is not used to profile you and not used for advertising, and we receive only a pass or a fail. If you would rather not load it at all, email us instead — the address is on the contact page and reaches the same inbox.
Analytics — Google (only after consent): _ga and _ga_<id> distinguish users (~2 years). Google Analytics 4 does not log or store IP addresses. Google sets these on fndry39.com as a whole, so they can be shared by the main site and its subdomains; withdrawing consent on any of them removes them.
Advertising — Google AdSense (Programs tools only; always on, personalization optional): Google and its certified ad partners may set cookies (for example __gads, __gpi, and DoubleClick’s IDE) to show ads, cap how often you see the same one, measure performance, and — where you have allowed it — personalize them. These are third-party cookies set from Google’s domains, so turning personalization off here stops Google choosing ads from a profile, but it does not stop ads appearing and does not delete cookies Google has already set; you can manage those at adssettings.google.com and read how Google uses this data at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. You can also opt out of personalized advertising across many networks at aboutads.info/choices (or youronlinechoices.eu in Europe).

Our free tools under FNDRY39 Programs (including the media converter) set no cookies of their own — apart from fndry39_rate above, and only if you answer the review request — and store nothing else between visits: files are processed in your browser’s memory and are gone when you leave. The Programs pages are where the advertising described above appears — ads are how the free tools stay free — and nothing about your files (not names, not types, not sizes) is ever shared with an ad network. On this site your consent choice above covers the tools too; if you use them at programs.fndry39.com, your browser keeps that subdomain’s choice separately, so you’ll be asked once there as well.

Screenshot Studio (screens.fndry39.com) sets no cookies of its own (apart from fndry39_rate above, if you answer the review request) and carries no ads. It does use your browser’s site storage (IndexedDB) to keep your projects and the screenshots in them — that is how your work is still there tomorrow. It is not a cookie, it is never sent to us or anyone else, and it is essential to the thing you asked the studio to do, so it needs no consent. You can delete it at any time: a project from its menu, everything from the projects page (“Delete all studio data”), or by clearing this site’s data in your browser. The studio’s cookie banner offers analytics only, and — like programs.fndry39.com — screens.fndry39.com keeps its own consent choice, so you’ll be asked once there too.

A few of the report tools can hand their findings to an AI assistant if you ask them to. That sets no cookie here and reads none — it opens someone else’s site in a new tab, where their cookies and their policy apply. Our Privacy Policy explains what goes with it, and the tool shows you the exact text before you send it.

Your control (Quebec Law 25 / GDPR)

You choose, per category, and you can change your mind at any time. “Accept”, “Reject”, and “Customize” are offered equally, no analytics and no ad personalization happen before you opt in, and the Customize toggles start switched off for a first-time visitor. The one thing that is not a choice is whether the Programs tools carry ads at all: they do, because otherwise they would not exist. Refusing turns them into plain contextual ads — it does not turn them off, and we would rather say so than pretend the switch does more than it does.

Questions

Email privacy@fndry39.com. See also our Privacy Policy.

Cookies we use

Type	Purpose	Consent
Essential	Security and core site function — remembering your cookie choice, your light/dark theme and whether you have answered our request for a Google review, and Google reCAPTCHA’s bot check on the contact form.	Always on — no consent needed
Analytics	Google Analytics 4 — understand how the site and tools are used (pages, sessions, and in Screenshot Studio counts such as “12 images exported”). Sets `_ga` cookies.	Opt-in — off until you accept
Browser storage	Screenshot Studio only — keeps your projects and the images in them in your browser’s own storage on your device, so your work is there when you come back. Nothing in it is sent to us.	Needed for the studio to save your work — no consent needed
Advertising	Google AdSense — shows ads on our free tools at programs.fndry39.com only. Google may set cookies to select, deliver, and measure ads.	Always on — personalization is opt-in

Specific cookies & providers

Essential — us: fndry39_consent remembers your cookie choice (~6 months), fndry39_theme remembers a light/dark theme if you pick one with the toggle (~12 months — it holds the word “light” or “dark” and nothing else, is never set until you choose, and applies across fndry39.com and its subdomains so you only choose once; Screenshot Studio is always dark and ignores it), and fndry39_rate remembers that you have answered our request for a Google review, so we stop asking (~12 months — it holds “rated” once you click “Rate us on Google”, or “no” if you choose “Don’t ask again”, and nothing else; it is never set until you click one of those, and it applies across fndry39.com and its subdomains). The request itself appears on Programs and in Screenshot Studio after about ten minutes of use; that time is counted in the open page’s memory, never stored, and starts again on every visit. These are the only cookies we set for visitors — there are no visitor accounts and no visitor sign-in. (FNDRY39’s own admin area, used only by its operator, sets its own session cookies there and nowhere else.)

Security — Google reCAPTCHA (contact page only): _GRECAPTCHA, set by Google when the contact form loads, so it can tell a person from a bot (~6 months). We class this as essential rather than analytics: without it the form is open to automated abuse, and it runs on no other page. It is not used to profile you and not used for advertising, and we receive only a pass or a fail. If you would rather not load it at all, email us instead — the address is on the contact page and reaches the same inbox.

Analytics — Google (only after consent): _ga and _ga_<id> distinguish users (~2 years). Google Analytics 4 does not log or store IP addresses. Google sets these on fndry39.com as a whole, so they can be shared by the main site and its subdomains; withdrawing consent on any of them removes them.

Advertising — Google AdSense (Programs tools only; always on, personalization optional): Google and its certified ad partners may set cookies (for example __gads, __gpi, and DoubleClick’s IDE) to show ads, cap how often you see the same one, measure performance, and — where you have allowed it — personalize them. These are third-party cookies set from Google’s domains, so turning personalization off here stops Google choosing ads from a profile, but it does not stop ads appearing and does not delete cookies Google has already set; you can manage those at adssettings.google.com and read how Google uses this data at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. You can also opt out of personalized advertising across many networks at aboutads.info/choices (or youronlinechoices.eu in Europe).

Your control (Quebec Law 25 / GDPR)