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title: "Privacy | Scam Lantern"
description: "What happens to what you paste into Scam Lantern: it stays in your browser. Report notes are kept in local storage on your device. Cookie-free page counts."
url: https://scamlantern.me/privacy/
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Privacy

# Privacy

The short version: what you paste or type stays in your browser.

## What you paste and type

Every tool works in your browser. Messages you paste into the checker, links you check and choices you make are never sent to a server and never saved. Checking a link doesn’t open it: the address is read as text on your device.

## What is stored on your device

The report notes builder saves your notes in your browser’s local storage under the name `scamlantern-notes`, so they are still there next time you open the page on this device. “Clear notes” deletes them. If you choose light or dark with the theme button, that choice is saved under `scamlantern-theme`; choosing “Auto” removes it. Nothing else is stored, and the site does not use cookies. Clearing your browser’s site data removes both.

## Analytics

The site uses Cloudflare Web Analytics to count page views. It does not use cookies or track you across sites, and it never receives what you type, paste or tick in the tools. There are no ads and no other trackers.

## Links and hosting

Links to other sites, such as the official sources and the two recommended services, take you to sites with their own privacy policies. The pages are served by Cloudflare, which, like any web host, handles the network requests your browser makes to load them. The fonts and scripts come from this site, not from third parties.