Overview
QRotto ("we", "us", "this site") provides free QR code generation tools. This policy explains what information is collected when you use this website and how it is handled.
Data you enter into our tools
All QR codes on this site are generated entirely within your browser using client side JavaScript. The information you type into any generator, including names, phone numbers, email addresses, WiFi passwords, URLs, and text, is never transmitted to our servers, never stored by us, and never logged.
To save you typing the same thing twice, the tools keep a link, phone number or email address you typed, and the last code you made, in your browser's session storage for the current tab. That lets the next tool, the designer or the sign maker start from it. Passwords are never carried between tools on their own, although a WiFi code you made contains its password. This stays on your device, other websites cannot read it, and your browser deletes it when you close the tab.
Information collected automatically
Like most websites, our hosting provider may automatically record standard technical information such as your IP address, browser type, device type, referring page, and the pages you visit. This information is used only to monitor site performance and security.
Cookies
This site does not set cookies of its own. The third party services described below, Google Analytics, Microsoft Clarity and Google AdSense, do place cookies on your device.
Third-party advertising (Google AdSense)
We may display advertisements served by Google AdSense. Google and its partners use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this and 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. You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads settings.
Third party vendors and ad networks may also serve ads on this site. You can opt out of some third party vendors' use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting aboutads.info.
Consent in the EEA, the UK and Switzerland
If you are visiting from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, you will see a consent message before advertising cookies are used. It is served through Google's own consent message for publishers, and it lets you accept or manage your choices in detail, including refusing advertising cookies.
Analytics needs no click from you in these regions: Google Analytics runs there without cookies, using Google's consent mode, and Microsoft Clarity does not set cookies there unless you have given consent.
Choosing not to consent does not limit anything on this site. Every generator, the scanner and the whole blog work exactly the same either way, because they run in your browser and never needed your data in the first place. You may see less relevant advertising, and that is the only difference.
You can change your choice at any time by clearing this site's cookies in your browser, which makes the consent message appear again on your next visit.
Analytics
This site uses Google Analytics 4 to understand how people find and use it: which pages are visited, roughly where visitors are located, what device they are on, and how they arrived. Google Analytics sets cookies and processes this data on Google's servers.
We use it in aggregate. We do not attempt to identify individual visitors, and nothing you type into the QR code generators is ever sent to Google Analytics or anywhere else, because the generators run entirely in your browser.
You can opt out of Google Analytics across all websites by installing the Google Analytics opt out browser add on. Most browsers also let you block or clear cookies for this site specifically.
This site also uses Microsoft Clarity to see how pages are used, through aggregated heatmaps and recordings of on-page actions such as clicks, scrolls and mouse movement. Clarity masks the text you type by default, so what you enter into the generators is not captured. Microsoft processes this data on its servers and may use it as described in the Microsoft privacy statement. Blocking or clearing cookies for this site also stops Clarity.
Third-party resources
The QR code generator and the QR code reader are open source libraries that this site serves from qrotto.com itself, so no other company is involved when you make or scan a code. Two download features use a public content delivery network: when you save a ZIP of codes or a PDF from the bulk generator or the sign maker, your browser fetches JSZip or jsPDF from cdnjs.cloudflare.com, and that provider may log standard request information such as your IP address. These libraries run on your device; what you type is not sent to them.
Qrotto Keyword Tool (Google Ads API)
Qrotto Keyword Tool is an internal tool used only by the Qrotto team. It signs in with our own Google account using Google OAuth and uses the Google Ads API (scope: https://www.googleapis.com/auth/adwords) to read keyword ideas and average monthly search volumes from Google Keyword Planner.
What we access: only our own Google Ads manager account and Keyword Planner data. We do not access, collect or store any data from other people's Google accounts.
How we use it: only to plan content for our own websites.
Storage: the OAuth token is stored privately on our own computer. Keyword data is kept only in our private notes.
Sharing: we do not sell, share, transfer or publish Google user data or Google Ads data.
Qrotto Keyword Tool's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API services user data policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
Children's Privacy
This site is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children.
Your Rights
Because we do not collect or store personal data submitted through our tools, there is no personal data for us to retrieve, correct, or delete. For data handled by third parties such as Google, please refer to their respective privacy policies.
Changes to this policy
We may update this privacy policy from time to time. Any changes will be reflected on this page along with an updated revision date.
Contact
If you have questions about this privacy policy, please reach out through our Contact page.