Privacy

This privacy policy explains what Online Diff Checker (the website at onlinediffchecker.com) does and does not do with information when you use the tool. It applies to this site only.

The comparison never leaves your device

The diff is computed in JavaScript in your browser. The original and changed text — including files you load with Load file, images, PDFs, and Word documents — is not sent to onlinediffchecker.com, and is not sent to anyone else, as part of comparing it. There is no account system and no comparison API.

Do not email us the paste. We do not need it, and a mailbox is not the same promise as the in-browser tool. See Contact.

What stays on your device

• The original and changed text, in the two editors, until you clear them or close the tab.
• Images, PDF bytes, and Word files, in memory for that tab only. They are not written to history.
• Optional history of text comparisons (including text extracted from a PDF or Word file), in this browser’s localStorage under a key prefixed odc.history. Clear it from the History panel.
• Color scheme. Light is the default. If you switch, the choice is stored undertheme.

Toolbar preferences (Ignore whitespace, Ignore case) are not saved. We do not encrypt localStorage. Treat it like any other file on the machine.

What a page request can include

This is a static website. Loading a page sends the usual HTTP metadata: IP address, user agent, referrer, and the path you asked for. That request does not include the contents of the editors.

The host or CDN that serves the files may log that metadata in order to deliver the site, absorb abuse, and keep the network up. Those logs are not a copy of your diff. If the site is published on Cloudflare, Cloudflare’s own terms and privacy notice apply to that infrastructure.

Cookies and analytics

We use Google Analytics 4 (measurement ID G-6T69CK436T) to see how people use the website: which pages they open, roughly where they came from, and device and browser metadata. The tag loads from googletagmanager.com. Google may set cookies such as _ga and_ga_*. That traffic does not include the text in the editors.

A host or CDN may also set a technical cookie to operate the network (for example a bot-management cookie). That is not used by us to identify you across sites.

If Google AdSense is showing ads on this site, Google and its partners may set cookies as described below. Those cookies are for advertising. They are not used to send us the text in the editors.

Advertising (Google AdSense)

This site may display ads served by Google AdSense. Ads are separate from the diff: the comparison still runs in your browser and is not uploaded in order to show an ad.

Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to your website or other websites.

Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and/or other sites on the Internet.

Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. You can also opt out of some third-party vendors’ use of cookies for personalized advertising at www.aboutads.info.

Google’s own explanation of how it uses data from partner sites is at How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services. Google’s privacy policy is at policies.google.com/privacy.

What we do not collect

• The text you paste or the files you load, as part of running a comparison.
• Accounts, names, or payment details — there are none.
• A mailing list. The contact address is only if you write to us.

If you email contact@onlinediffchecker.com, we receive whatever you put in that message, plus standard mail metadata. Use that address for the website, not for the documents you are comparing.

Children

The site is a general-purpose developer and writing tool. It is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

Your choices

• Clear the editors, or close the tab, to drop the current paste.
• Clear History in the tool to drop optional localStorage history.
• Clear this site’s data in your browser to drop theme, history, and analytics cookies.
• Opt out of Google Analytics with theGoogle Analytics opt-out add-on.
• Do not use the tool on a shared computer if the paste must not remain on that machine.

Changes

If this policy changes, we will update this page and the date below. Continued use of the site after a change means you have read the new policy.

Contact

Questions about this policy: Contact. Use of the tool is also covered by the Terms.

Last updated 6 September 2026.