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Privacy Policy

Last reviewed · fixmic team

Short version: fixmic does not upload your microphone audio, send it to any server, or require an account — any optional recording you make stays inside your own browser. The site plans to introduce Google AdSense advertising in the near future to cover hosting costs; until that happens, no advertising cookies are set. The longer version is below.

The 30-second summary

Your microphone audio never leaves your browser — there is no server-side recording, no upload, and no cloud processing. We do not require an account. To cover hosting costs, the site plans to introduce ads from Google AdSense in the near future; when that goes live, this policy will be updated to describe the cookies set and the consent mechanism. Until then, no advertising cookies are set. We never sell, share, or have any access to your audio. Questions: contact@fixmic.com.

Audio data

When you click 'Start test', your browser captures audio from your microphone using the Web Audio API. All processing happens locally on your device in real time, and the audio is never transmitted to any server, never uploaded, and never written to your device's disk. If you use the optional Record feature, a short clip (up to 8 seconds) is captured into this browser tab's memory so you can play it back and compare before and after a fix; that clip is discarded as soon as you record over it, reset, stop the test, or close the tab. Even we cannot listen to anything you say into the mic, because the audio physically never leaves your browser.

Diagnostic results

The numerical results of your test (peak level, noise floor, reverb tail, and so on) are calculated on your device and shown to you on the page. They are not sent to any server and not saved between sessions. Reload the page and the previous results are gone.

Analytics

We use Cloudflare Web Analytics to count how many people visit the site and which pages they read. Cloudflare Web Analytics does not use cookies, does not fingerprint visitors, and does not transmit any personal information. The data we see is aggregate — visit counts per page per day, nothing else. We use it to decide which troubleshooting guides to expand, not to profile individual visitors.

Cookies and local storage

fixmic stores two small values in your browser's local storage: your theme preference (dark or light), and the identifier of the microphone you last selected (so the test reopens with the same device). Neither value is ever sent to any server, and both are readable only by this site. Your language is determined by the page's URL, not stored in your browser. Cloudflare Web Analytics, which counts page visits, does not use cookies. No advertising cookies are currently set on this site. When Google AdSense is introduced (see the Advertising section below), Google will set its own ad-related cookies — typical names include __gads, __gpi, NID, and IDE — and this section will be updated with the full list. These ad cookies, once present, will be set and read by Google, not by us.

Advertising

fixmic is free for users. To pay for hosting and the domain, the site plans to introduce display advertising served by Google AdSense — the same advertising network used by most independent websites on the internet. Advertising is not yet running; this section is published in advance so the policy is transparent about what is coming. When AdSense goes live, ads will be chosen by Google and may be personalised based on your browsing history elsewhere unless you opt out. The AdSense scripts will run in isolated browser contexts and will not have access to your microphone, your diagnostic results, or any data unique to fixmic — they will see only what any third-party script can see (the URL of the page, your browser identifiers, and similar request metadata). For visitors in the European Union, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, a Google-certified consent banner will appear on first visit. To learn how Google handles this data, see policies.google.com/technologies/ads; to control or disable personalised advertising from Google, see adssettings.google.com; and to opt out of personalised advertising from many other participating networks at once, see aboutads.info/choices (and youronlinechoices.eu for visitors in Europe). This policy will be updated to reflect the change from 'plans to' to 'currently runs' on the day advertising goes live.

Server logs and hosting

The site is hosted on Cloudflare Pages. Cloudflare automatically logs basic request metadata — IP address, user agent string, request timestamp, and the URL requested — for the short window required to operate the network and protect it from abuse. This is standard for any website on the open web and is described in Cloudflare's privacy policy at cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/. When Google AdSense is introduced, Google will also receive similar request metadata directly from your browser whenever an ad slot loads, because the ad script loads from googlesyndication.com. We do not have access to either provider's server logs.

Data retention

Because the site collects almost nothing, there is almost nothing to retain. Cloudflare's edge logs are kept according to its own retention schedule (typically days, not months). Aggregate analytics counts are kept indefinitely because they are not tied to any individual. Your theme preference and last-selected microphone live in your browser's local storage until you clear them yourself.

Security

The site is served exclusively over HTTPS, which the browser also requires before it will grant any website microphone access. Cloudflare handles DDoS protection, certificate management, and edge security. We do not operate any application server that could be breached, because the entire site is static files plus client-side JavaScript.

International users and your rights

fixmic serves the same content worldwide and does not collect personal data about you ourselves. When Google AdSense is introduced (see the Advertising section above), Google will process pseudonymous identifiers (cookie IDs, IP address, browser fingerprint) of visitors and may personalise advertising on this basis; visitors in the European Union, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland will be shown a Google-certified consent banner on first visit. Until that happens, no third-party advertising processing occurs on this site. Whether or not advertising is live, your data-subject rights under GDPR, UK GDPR, and CCPA / CPRA apply directly to any third party that holds your data — Google publishes its request process at support.google.com/policies. Because we hold no profile of you ourselves, there is nothing on our side to access, correct, port, or erase.

Children's privacy

fixmic is a general-purpose troubleshooting tool, not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children under 13 (or under 16 in jurisdictions where that is the threshold), and there is no signup or profile on our side. When Google AdSense is introduced, Google's policies will prohibit personalised advertising to users under the applicable age threshold. On our side there is nothing to delete because nothing is collected.

Third-party links

Some of our troubleshooting guides link to external pages — for example, Zoom's support site, Microsoft Learn, or Apple Support — when those pages contain the authoritative instructions for a fix. When you click such a link you leave fixmic and become subject to that site's privacy policy. We have no control over and accept no responsibility for the practices of third-party sites we link to.

Changes to this policy

If we ever change how the site handles data — for example by adding a contact form that stores messages, or accepting donations through a third-party processor — we will update this page, change the 'Last reviewed' date at the top, and add a short note describing the change at the top of this section.

Contact

Questions about this policy or about how fixmic handles data: write to contact@fixmic.com. There is no formal Data Protection Officer because no personal data is processed, but the operator answers privacy-related mail personally.

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