Last updated: 7 September 2026
This page explains what is stored on your device when you visit XY Convert, who puts it there, and how to remove it. It also covers something most cookie policies never mention, which is the storage the tools themselves use.
What a cookie actually is
A cookie is a small text file that a website asks your browser to keep. On your next visit the browser hands it back, which is how a site remembers anything at all between pages.
Cookies cannot read your files, run programs or reach anything outside the browser. What they can do is recognise a browser across visits, and when the cookie belongs to an advertising network rather than to us, across other websites too. That last part is the one worth understanding, and it is covered below.
The short version
- The tools themselves do not need cookies and do not set any.
- WordPress sets a small number of cookies for things like leaving a comment.
- Advertising partners, including Google, set cookies to choose and measure the ads you see.
- Your drafts in the resume, letter and letterhead tools are saved to your own device using browser storage, which is not a cookie and never leaves your machine.
- You can clear or block all of it, and the tools will still work.
What is stored, and why
Strictly necessary
These make the site function. They are set by WordPress rather than by us, and the site cannot sensibly work without them.
| What it does | Set by | How long it lasts |
|---|---|---|
| Keeps you signed in, if you have an account here | WordPress | Session, or up to 14 days if you tick remember me |
| Remembers the name and email you typed on a comment form, so you do not retype them | WordPress | Up to 12 months |
| Protects forms against automated abuse | WordPress | Session |
Almost every visitor only ever meets the comment one, and only if they leave a comment.
Measurement
We look at basic, aggregated figures such as which pages get visited and which tools get used, so we know what to improve and what to build next. This is about pages, never about files, because the files never reach us in the first place.
Advertising
This site is free and is paid for by advertising, so this is the category that matters most on this page.
We use Google AdSense, and other advertising partners may serve ads through it. Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your previous visits to this website or to other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on those visits.
Those cookies are set by the advertising networks, not by us. We do not control their contents, cannot read them, and do not receive the data they collect. Their purposes include choosing which ad to show, limiting how often you see the same one, and measuring whether an ad worked.
How to turn off personalised advertising
You have direct control over this, and it does not depend on us.
- Turn off personalised ads from Google at Google Ads Settings.
- Opt out of a large number of other vendors at once at aboutads.info, or at Your Online Choices in Europe.
- Block third party cookies entirely in your browser settings, which is a blunter approach and works everywhere.
Doing any of this does not remove advertising and does not affect the tools. Ads simply become less relevant to you, which most people find an acceptable trade.
Browser storage, which is not a cookie
This part is specific to how the tools here work, and it is the reason this page exists rather than being copied from a template.
The resume builder, the experience letter tool and the letterhead builder save your draft as you type. That draft is written into your browser’s own local storage, which is a different mechanism from a cookie in one important way: it is never sent anywhere. A cookie travels back to a server with every request. Local storage sits on your device and stays there until something clears it.
So your employment history, your company details and anything else you type into those tools is on your machine and nowhere else. It exists so that a refresh, an accidental tab close or a flat battery does not cost you an hour of typing.
Each of those tools has a button that clears its own saved draft, and clearing your browser data removes it as well. When it is gone it is gone, because there was never a second copy.
What the tools do not store
Worth stating plainly, since this is the question people actually have.
No tool on this site stores the files you put into it. Your PDFs, photographs, videos and recordings are read by the page, worked on in memory, and handed back to you as a download. Close the tab and they are gone from memory. They were never uploaded, so there is no server copy, no retention period and nothing for us to delete on request.
If you would rather see that than be told it, open your browser developer tools, switch to the network panel, and use any tool on the site. You will see the library it needs come down and nothing go up.
Managing cookies in your browser
Every browser lets you see what is stored, delete it, and refuse more. The settings are usually under Privacy, and these are the paths at the time of writing.
- Chrome: Settings, then Privacy and security, then Third party cookies.
- Edge: Settings, then Cookies and site permissions.
- Firefox: Settings, then Privacy and Security, then Cookies and Site Data.
- Safari: Settings, then Privacy, where cross site tracking can be prevented entirely.
- Mobile: the same options exist in the browser app settings on iOS and Android.
Private or incognito windows discard everything when you close them, which is another straightforward option.
What breaks if you block everything
Very little, and nothing that matters.
Every tool keeps working, because none of them needs a cookie to function. Blocking storage entirely stops your drafts from being saved between visits in the career tools, so you would need to finish a document in one sitting. Comment forms stop remembering your name. That is the whole list.
Consent
Where the law requires it, such as in the United Kingdom and the European Economic Area, a consent notice appears on your first visit and non essential cookies are not set until you have made a choice. You can change your mind at any time through that notice or through your browser settings.
Strictly necessary cookies do not require consent, because the site cannot function without them.
Changes to this policy
This page is updated when the site changes or when an advertising partner changes what it does. The date at the top shows when it was last revised, and it is worth checking that date rather than assuming nothing has moved.
It should be read alongside our privacy policy, which covers data more broadly, and our disclaimer.
Questions
If something here is unclear, or you think a cookie is being set that is not described on this page, tell us through the contact page. That second one is a genuinely useful report, because advertising partners occasionally change behaviour without announcing it.
This page was last updated on 9 September 2026. If anything here is unclear, or you think something is out of date, let us know and it will be looked at.