Contact & Policies

How to get in touch, report corrections, understand privacy, and use our tools and articles responsibly.

This site is built as an educational collection of cipher, encoding, and cryptography tools. Our aim is to make these systems easier to understand, test, and explore without asking visitors for unnecessary information.

Contact, Corrections & Requests

The site improves when readers point out where something is unclear, broken, missing, or technically wrong. A small correction on one page can help every future visitor who lands there.

If you have a question, correction, tool suggestion, or bug report, you are welcome to get in touch.

Email address

contact@coming-soon.example

Please use the contact method provided on this page for corrections, bug reports, broken links, and tool requests.

When reporting a problem, please include the page name and a short description of what happened.

Good reasons to get in touch include:

  • A tool gives an incorrect, confusing, or buggy result.
  • An article, worked example, or historical detail contains a factual mistake.
  • A cipher rule, formula, or glossary definition needs improving.
  • A link is broken, or a page behaves strangely on mobile or desktop.
  • You want to request a new cipher, encoding, or cryptography topic.

If you are reporting a tool problem, it helps to include the page name, what you typed in, what result you expected, and what result you actually got.

Privacy

This site is designed to ask as little from visitors as possible. You can use the tools and read the articles without creating an account, logging in, or submitting personal details.

Tool Input

Most interactive tools on this site run directly in your browser. The tools are designed to process ordinary input locally on your own device rather than sending your message away for processing.

Even so, you should never type sensitive real-world secrets, passwords, private keys, financial details, medical information, or confidential material into educational web tools.

Basic Website Information

Like almost all websites, the site or its hosting provider may process basic technical information needed to serve pages securely. This can include:

  • IP address
  • Browser type
  • Device type
  • Pages visited
  • Time of access
  • Referring page

This kind of information is used for security, reliability, diagnostics, and basic site operation.

Analytics, Cookies & Third-Party Services

If analytics are used, they are intended only to help us understand general site usage, such as which pages are useful and where improvements are needed. Analytics are not intended to collect the text you type into cipher or encoding tools.

Cookies, local storage, or similar technologies may be used by services such as analytics, advertising, donation platforms, sharing tools, or basic site preferences.

If advertising is used, providers may use cookies or similar technologies according to their own policies and the consent choices available on the site.

If you use an external service linked from this site, such as Ko-fi, its own privacy policy applies once you leave the site.

Cookie Policy

Cookies are small pieces of information stored by a browser. Similar technologies, such as local storage, can also remember choices or help services understand how a site is used.

Strictly Necessary Storage

The site may use essential browser storage for basic preferences and interface behaviour, such as remembering a theme choice, whether a dismissible mobile ad placeholder was closed, or whether an analytics choice has already been made.

These preferences help the site work normally and are not intended to collect the messages, keys, plaintext, ciphertext, encoded text, decoded text, or analysis input you type into the tools.

Analytics

The site can use Umami analytics to understand broad page usage, such as which pages are visited and which tools or articles are useful. Umami is configured as optional analytics and should only load after analytics consent when consent is required.

Analytics are not used to record the text, keys, or results entered into the cipher and encoding tools.

You can reset your local analytics choice here:

Advertising

If advertising is enabled, ad providers such as Google AdSense may use cookies or similar technologies for ad delivery, measurement, fraud prevention, and personalisation depending on the choices available to visitors.

Advertising consent for Google ads should be handled by a Google-certified consent management platform where required, rather than by the small analytics banner used for Umami.

Search Console

Google Search Console is used to understand how the site appears in Google Search. It does not require this site to place a visitor tracking script on pages.

Browser Controls

You can also block or delete cookies and site storage through your browser settings. Some privacy-focused browsers or extensions may block analytics automatically.

Donations

Donations are optional and are handled externally through Ko-fi. The tools are meant to remain free and useful whether or not someone contributes financially.

If you choose to donate, you will be taken to Ko-fi's website. Ko-fi and its payment providers handle the transaction. This site does not process or store card or payment details directly.

Donations help support the time spent building, testing, writing, improving, and maintaining the site. A donation does not create a paid support relationship or guarantee that a specific feature, article, or tool will be added.

Accuracy & Limitations

This site aims to be careful, readable, and technically honest. However, mistakes can happen.

Historical explanations may simplify complex stories. Worked examples may contain errors. Tools may have bugs or edge cases. Glossary definitions may need sharpening.

Corrections are welcome, especially for:

  • Cipher rules
  • Formulas
  • Worked examples
  • Historical details
  • Glossary entries
  • Tool behaviour
  • Broken links
  • Unclear explanations
  • Layout or accessibility problems

If something looks wrong, unclear, or misleading, please report it. Corrections are genuinely useful and help improve the site for everyone who arrives later.

Educational Use & Security Warning

The tools and articles on this site are provided for learning, puzzles, experimentation, historical interest, and technical understanding.

Classical Ciphers Are Not Secure

Many of the classical ciphers covered here, including Caesar, Affine, Vigenere, Playfair, Rail Fence, ADFGX, ADFGVX, and Bacon's cipher, are not secure by modern standards. They are excellent for education and exploration, but they should never be used to protect sensitive real-world information.

Modern Cryptography

Modern cryptography demonstrations on this site should also be treated as educational unless a page clearly says otherwise. They are designed to explain ideas, not to replace professional security software, operational security guidance, legal advice, or compliance advice.

Terms of Use

Please use the site thoughtfully and responsibly. You should not use the tools or content for unlawful activity, harassment, abuse, deception, or attempts to compromise other people's systems or accounts.

The site is provided for education, experimentation, and general learning. It is not a substitute for professional security software, legal advice, compliance advice, or operational security guidance.

The site and its tools are provided as-is and without warranty. Although we aim to make the tools and explanations accurate, we cannot guarantee that every result, article, formula, historical note, or example is complete, current, or error-free.

You should verify important details independently, especially where accuracy matters for security, legal, educational, professional, or operational reasons.

Site Changes

The site is a living project. Tools, articles, layouts, policies, links, and features may be updated, removed, replaced, or reorganised over time.

Last updated: 2 May 2026

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A note from the team

We build these tools because we love cryptography, encoding, and making difficult ideas easier to explore. If they've helped you, even a small coffee means the world to the project. Thank you!

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