Privacy Policy
Short version: we don’t collect personal data.
No accounts, no tracking
TheClock has no sign-up, does not set tracking cookies and does not include advertising or third-party analytics scripts.
Data stored in your browser
Your preferences (time format, theme, default location), favorites, world clock cities, alarms, timers and recent searches are saved in your browser’s LocalStorage. They never leave your device. You can delete them at any time from Settings → “Reset everything”, or by clearing site data in your browser.
Location
By default we only read your browser’s time zone setting. If you click “Use my precise location”, your browser asks for permission; the coordinates are used locally to find the nearest city in a dataset downloaded to your browser and are not sent to our server.
Server requests
To synchronize the clock, your browser requests the current time from our server. Like any web server, our hosting provider may keep standard access logs (IP address, time, requested URL, user agent) for security and operations. We don’t use them to identify or profile visitors.
Notifications
Notifications are optional and only shown by your own browser when a timer, countdown or alarm finishes. We don’t use push services.