Privacy

Short version: BEAD itself sets no cookies and stores nothing about you on its servers. Most tools run entirely in your browser. We do show ads, and ad networks are their own thing — see below.

What BEAD collects

• Anonymous usage analytics via Vercel Web Analytics — page views and country, no cookies, no personal data, no cross-site tracking.
• Server logs from Vercel for the server-side parts (currently just the contact-form endpoint and the manifest / service worker routes).

What BEAD doesn't collect

• Anything you type into a client-side tool (QR text, passwords, JSON, timestamps, etc.).
• Your IP address beyond what Vercel needs to serve the request.
• Identifiers via cookies — we don't set any first-party cookies.

Local browser storage

BEAD uses your browser's localStoragefor a few small preferences that never leave your device: your theme choice (light / dark / system), which tools you've favorited, and whether you've dismissed the "Install" prompt. Clear them any time via your browser's site settings.

One tool that talks to a third party

DNS Lookupsends queries directly from your browser to Cloudflare's public DNS-over-HTTPS endpoint (cloudflare-dns.com). The names you look up are visible to Cloudflare;BEAD never sees them. Every other tool runs locally.

The contact form

If you submit the contact form, your message and email address are sent to us through Resend so we can reply. We hold the message only as long as needed to respond. The form is protected by Cloudflare Turnstile — Cloudflare receives a captcha token and your IP from your browser, used solely to determine whether you're a human; BEADdoesn't see Cloudflare's scoring data.

Advertising

BEAD shows display ads served by Adsterra. Ads run inside sandboxed iframes, so they can't hijack your page, redirect you away without your click, or open popups against your will. But when an ad loads, three things can happen that BEADdoesn't directly control:

• Third-party cookies — Adsterra and the advertisers it resells to typically set their own cookies on their domains (not b-e-a-d.com) for impression counting, frequency capping, and anti-fraud.
• Browser identifiers — User-Agent, language, screen size, and similar information your browser sends with every request.
• IP address — ad servers see it because your browser connects to them directly.

We picked Adsterra specifically because it offers IAB-standard display banners. We do notrun popunders, popups, social bars, smartlinks, or native ads designed to look like content. If you don't want any of this, an ad blocker is the cleanest fix — BEAD will keep working perfectly without ads.

Adsterra publishes its own Privacy Policy and Cookies Policy with more detail on what they collect and how to opt out.

Third parties at a glance

• Vercel — hosts the site and runs the server-side parts (contact form delivery).
• Cloudflare — DNS-over-HTTPS endpoint used by the DNS Lookup tool, and the Turnstile captcha on the contact form.
• Resend — delivers contact-form emails to us.
• Adsterra — display advertising.

Last updated: 2026-05-30.