Your checks stay in this tab
PrintBench has no accounts or uploads. Optional analytics is described below. Measurements, names, notes and captured input stay in browser memory until you clear the session, reload or close the tab.
What is requested over the network
Your browser loads this site’s application, test PDFs and PDF preview worker from the same origin, and, if you use the camera in a browser without its own barcode reader, the camera’s decoder. A host may log ordinary web requests such as IP address, asset path and user agent; the app does not put scan values, notes or reports into those URLs.
If you choose Send to SmartFACT PrintStation, a new tab opens printstation.smartfact.ai/test/ followed by the public sheet name, for example basic-100x150-203. Nothing else is in that address: no measurements, notes, scan values or reports, and no referrer is sent. PrintStation is a separate SmartFACT service with its own privacy notice.
Once the current test and preview assets have loaded, measurements, capture and reports work without further network access. A different uncached fixture or a fresh tab may need another request. There is no service worker or promise that the entire site works offline.
The camera
The camera opens only when you press the camera button beside the scanner field and your browser allows it, and no sound is recorded. Each frame is decoded on this device and only the decoded code is kept, in browser memory like other captured input: no image is stored or uploaded. The camera stops when you close its view or switch away from the page. On browsers without a built-in barcode reader, the decoder is loaded from this site.
Reports and downloads
Reports default to public fixture facts, numeric measurements and outcome summaries, including input source. They omit device names, notes, captured text and paste text. A full report includes these after you choose that option and review the preview. Even a redacted report can describe a setup. Files you download remain on your device after you clear this tab.
Scanner field and links
Keyboard capture runs only while the visible field is armed, and the camera only while its view is open. Do not scan production, personal or confidential data unless you intend to retain it locally. The provided test codes are synthetic. Links to other SmartFACT products carry no tracking marker and no measurements, notes, scan values or report contents. The PrintStation link carries only the sheet name, as described above. External sites have their own policies. The Send feedback link opens our feedback form and carries only the tool's name, its version and the screen it was opened from; leaving your email address there is optional.
Saved work summary (Your workbench)
PrintBench keeps no work in your browser, so it never adds to this summary. Its menu reads the summary to show where you have saved work in other SmartFACT free tools, which keep a small cookie named sf_workbench, set for smartfact.ai so that each free tool can read it.
What it stores: for each free tool with work saved on this device, a short name for the tool (for example countbench), how many items are saved there (up to 999) and when that tool last saved. What it does not store: titles, codes, scans, file names, values, notes or anything you typed, and nothing that identifies you or your device.
Where it is sent: the free tools read it in your browser. Like any cookie, your browser also includes it when it requests a free tool's application pages on smartfact.ai (addresses ending in /app/). SmartFACT does not use it on its servers, does not include it in analytics and does not share it.
How long it lasts: 180 days after a free tool last updated it, and each free tool you open updates it. Some browsers, including Safari, delete it 7 days after it was last updated, which is about as long as they keep the saved work itself without a visit.
How to clear it: choose Clear the summary under Your workbench in any free tool's menu, or delete your browser's cookies for smartfact.ai. Clearing it does not delete any saved work; a tool with saved work adds its line again the next time you open it.
Videos
Some pages show a video. Until you press play it is a picture from this website, and nothing is loaded from YouTube. When you press play, the page loads the video from YouTube’s privacy-enhanced service (youtube-nocookie.com); YouTube then receives your connection and device information and may store data in your browser, under Google’s privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy. You can also watch the video on YouTube itself.
Optional analytics
Obsidian Black Ltd operates this site. With your consent, we use Google Analytics to understand visits to our pages and tools. The Google tag stays off until you accept. Rejecting analytics does not affect the tool.
Google receives page views, browser and device details, connection information and cookie identifiers. Our events use fixed page names and do not include query strings, fragments, scans, uploaded or imported file contents, device notes or card text. Referrers are reduced to their origins. When you follow a link to another SmartFACT product or service from these pages or the tool, one suite_cta_click event records only this tool’s name, the destination product and a fixed name for where the link appeared. It never includes the link address, its query string or anything you entered. Advertising personalisation is disabled.
Your analytics choice is remembered for 180 days in a preference cookie shared across smartfact.ai and its subdomains, including product websites and apps. Use Analytics settings on any site to accept or reject analytics across the suite. Google Analytics cookies remain specific to each host and last up to 180 days. Open pages check for changes; other sites remove their analytics cookies when next opened or resumed. Enquiry and contact consent remain product-specific.
Google processes analytics data under its own arrangements, which may involve processing outside the UK. See the Google privacy policy. Contact [email protected] about your information or to exercise your data rights. You can also raise a concern with the UK Information Commissioner at https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/. Downloaded reports, projects and PDFs do not contain analytics.
