magne.tools

Privacy

Last updated: 6 October 2026

Who we are

magne.tools is a free, non-commercial hobby project run by Ugur Kaya, a private individual in the Netherlands, who is the controller of the personal data described on this page.

For any privacy question or request, write to privacy@magne.tools.

In short: no cookies, no accounts, no analytics and no ads. We keep what you search for a limited time to answer you and to make search better, and we don't store your IP address with your searches.

What we process and why

When you search, your text goes to our server, which finds matching tools and sends them back. This is what we keep, and for how long:

What Why Kept for
Searches you send: the text, the tools we showed, how we found them and the page language. No IP address and no user ID. To find where search falls short and improve it. 90 days
Daily search counts: the search text and how often it was asked each day. To see what people look for and where the catalog has gaps. 90 days
Cached answers: the answer to a search, stored under its text. When project search is available, also whether a longer search describes a whole project. To answer the same search again quickly, for everyone. 7 days
Project descriptions: when you use project search, the description you give (or the part of it behind each need) and how we found the result. No IP address. To find where project search falls short and improve it. 90 days
Cached project answers: the answer to a project description, including the description and quotes from it. To show the same answer again quickly. 7 days
Shared project answers: when you press Share, the project description, its answer, the rows you marked, the page language and the date. No IP address. To show the answer to anyone you give the link to. 1 year, or until you delete the link
Rate-limit records tied to your IP address: the times of your recent requests (searches, project searches, shares and calls to our MCP endpoint), in a record named by your IP address (for IPv6, by its /64 network). To keep the service available and stop anyone from overloading it. Deleted after 1 hour without requests
Technical request logs at Cloudflare: records of requests to the site, which can include your IP address. To run the service and fix faults. Up to 7 days
Your browser's saved tools: the tools you marked with "I already have this". To remember your tools between visits. Until you clear it. It stays in your browser and is never sent to us.
Your browser's share links: the links you made with Share, each with its delete key. So you can delete a link later. Until you clear it. A key is sent to us only when you delete its link.

Your text is sent while you type, as soon as you pause, not only when you press Enter. It is kept like any other search. Please don't type personal details, such as names, email addresses or anything about other people, into the search box.

Legal basis

We rely on legitimate interest (GDPR Art. 6(1)(f)) for everything above. Our interest, per purpose:

You don't have to give us any data. But without text there is nothing to search, so the search can't work without it.

Your browser and links

We use no cookies. We store two entries in your browser, each written only when you ask for it, so no consent banner is needed:

There are no third-party scripts or fonts: fonts and icons come from our own site.

Shared project answers

When project search is available, you can share a project's answer with Share. We then store a copy of it: your project description, the answer we stored for that description (its needs and tools, with the needs that were opened on it), the rows you marked, the page language and the date. We don't store your IP address or the tools you marked as yours with it.

Who else sees it

A few services help us run magne.tools. They only get what they need for their part.

How long we keep it

As long as the table above says, and no longer. A daily clean-up deletes the data in our database once that time has passed; rate-limit records delete themselves after an hour, and Cloudflare deletes its logs on its own schedule. Only counts with no search text in them may be kept longer.

Your rights

You can ask us for access to your data, to correct it, to erase it or to restrict how we use it. You can also ask to receive it in a portable form where the law provides that right. Write to privacy@magne.tools.

You can object at any time to processing based on legitimate interest, which is all the processing on this page. Tell us, and we stop unless we have compelling reasons the law accepts.

Searches are not tied to a name or account, so we can only find yours from what you tell us. In your request, include the text you searched for and roughly when you searched it.

If you think we handle your data wrongly, you can complain to the Dutch data protection authority, the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, or to the authority in the country where you live (see the list of EU authorities).

No automated decisions

We make no automated decisions about you that have legal or similarly significant effects. The results are suggestions of tools, nothing more.

Changes and language

When we change this text, the date at the top changes with it. This page is also available in Turkish; if the two differ, the English version prevails.