Privacy Policy
Effective date: 31 August 2026
Switchboard is built on a simple belief: converting a file should not mean handing the file to someone else.
This Privacy Policy explains how information is handled when you use Switchboard. The short version is that your conversions run locally in your browser. Switchboard does not require accounts, does not collect uploaded files because there are no uploads, and does not use analytics, advertising, or behavioural tracking.
We built a toolbox for your files and text, not a system for collecting them.
- Service
- Switchboard, including switchboard.vexto.app, its converter tools, and related pages (the Service)
- Provider
- VextoApps
- Effective date
- 31 August 2026
- Privacy contact
- vextoapp@proton.me
- Governing location
- New South Wales, Australia
1. The information Switchboard does not collect
You do not need an account to use Switchboard. We do not ask for your name, email address, password, phone number, payment details, or social-media profile.
Files, images, documents, text, and converter inputs you use in Switchboard are processed locally in your browser. The Service does not provide an upload endpoint for those inputs, store them in a Switchboard database, or send them to VextoApps for conversion.
Switchboard also does not run advertising scripts, analytics services, telemetry, tracking pixels, or advertising cookies. It does not sell, rent, or share user files or converter inputs because it does not receive them.
2. Information saved in your browser
Some features use your browser's local storage to make the toolbox more convenient. This information stays on your device and is not accessible to VextoApps.
Keeps up to 12 favourite tools available in your sidebar and home screen
Your control: Unpin tools or clear Switchboard site data in your browser
Helps you return to tools you used recently
Your control: Clear Switchboard site data in your browser
Lets a tool remember recent text or input, subject to a local size cap
Your control: Clear the input, use private browsing, or clear Switchboard site data
Stores the app code needed to make Switchboard available offline
Your control: Clear Switchboard site data or remove the installed app
Local data can disappear if you clear browser data, use private browsing, change devices, reset your browser, or experience a device problem. We cannot recover it because it never reaches our systems.
3. Clipboard access
Some tools let you paste from, or copy to, your clipboard. These actions happen only when you choose them. Clipboard access is handled by your browser under its own permission settings. Switchboard does not receive clipboard content on a server.
4. Shareable links
Some converter tools may let you create a share link using data encoded after the # symbol in the URL. This happens locally. URL fragments are generally handled by your browser and are not sent with the standard page request to the website server.
Even so, share links can expose their content to anyone who receives the link, sees a screenshot, has access to browser history, or uses the device. Please do not create or share a link containing personal, confidential, sensitive, or identifying information.
5. Website delivery, fonts, and technical logs
Switchboard is delivered through an edge-hosting environment. Like most websites, the hosting layer may process limited technical request information such as IP address, browser and device information, requested pages, timestamps, and security-related events. This processing helps deliver the site, prevent abuse, maintain reliability, and meet applicable legal obligations.
The Service uses a Google Fonts link to load Plus Jakarta Sans and JetBrains Mono. When your browser requests those fonts, Google may receive standard request information, such as your IP address and browser details, under its own privacy practices. These font requests are separate from your conversion inputs; Switchboard does not send your files or text to Google Fonts.
We do not use hosting or font-request information to profile you, run targeted advertising, or build a behavioural history.
6. How information is used and shared
The limited technical information processed at the hosting and font-delivery layers is used only to deliver, protect, and maintain the Service. VextoApps does not sell or share personal information for cross-context behavioural advertising.
We may disclose information where required to comply with applicable law, a lawful request, court order, or to protect the rights, safety, and security of VextoApps, users, or others. As the Service has no user-content database, there is no stored conversion content for us to provide.
7. Your privacy choices and rights
You control local Switchboard data through your browser. You can clear the relevant site data, remove the installed app, or use private browsing if you do not want information retained locally.
If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, California, Australia, or another location with privacy rights, you may contact us at vextoapp@proton.me. We will respond in good faith to questions or requests. Please understand that we cannot access, export, amend, or delete files and text that remain only in your browser, and hosting providers may retain limited technical logs under their own security and legal requirements.
8. Children
Switchboard is a general-audience utility and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children through the Service. If you believe a child has sent personal information directly to us by email, please let us know and we will address the matter promptly.
9. Security and limitations
Switchboard's local-first design reduces the need for your conversion inputs to leave your device. It does not remove every privacy or security risk. Your device, browser, browser extensions, local network, operating system, and third-party services used to share files or links are outside our control.
Keep your device secure and check important output before relying on it. Do not process sensitive content on a shared or compromised device.
10. Changes to this policy
We may update this Privacy Policy as Switchboard evolves or legal requirements change. The latest version will be published on this page with an updated effective date. Where a material change is appropriate to highlight, we will make that clear.
11. Contact us
For privacy questions or concerns, email vextoapp@proton.me with the subject line Switchboard Privacy.
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