Privacy Policy
What this site does and doesn't do with your data. Written to match how the site is actually built - which is to say, it collects nothing directly and sets no cookies.
Before publishing: this needs completing and reviewing
A privacy policy is a legal document, and an inaccurate one is worse than none - under GDPR and similar regimes it has to describe what actually happens. Everything below reflects the site as built, but four things only you can supply, and the whole document should be reviewed by someone qualified in your jurisdiction.
REPLACE_WITH_DATE, REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_EMAIL,
REPLACE_WITH_HOSTING_PROVIDER and REPLACE_WITH_FORM_PROCESSOR.
Analytics, comments, embedded video, ads or a newsletter all change what's true here. This policy describes a site with none of those.
This is a starting template written from a technical audit, not legal advice, and it isn't tailored to any particular jurisdiction.
In plain English
The detail is below, but this is the substance of it.
No cookies
The site sets no cookies and uses no browser storage - no localStorage,
no sessionStorage, no IndexedDB.
No analytics
No Google Analytics, no tag manager, no third-party tracking scripts of any kind.
No accounts
Nothing to sign up for, so no names, passwords or profiles are collected.
One exception
Fonts load from Google's servers, which means your IP address reaches Google. Details below - this is the one thing worth reading.
What this site collects
| Data | Collected? | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Cookies | No | None set by this site |
| Browser storage | No | No localStorage, sessionStorage or IndexedDB is used |
| Analytics or tracking | No | No measurement scripts are loaded |
| Accounts or profiles | No | There is nothing to register for |
| Advertising identifiers | No | No ads are served |
| Your prompts in the playground | No | They go to software on your own machine - see section 4 |
| Server access logs | Maybe | Kept by the host, not by us - see section 3 |
| Contact form submissions | If you send one | Only what you type - see section 5 |
Google Fonts - the one third-party request
Every page loads typefaces from Google's servers. That's a genuine privacy consideration and it deserves to be stated plainly rather than buried.
fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com. To fulfil that request your browser
connects directly to Google, which means your IP address is transmitted to Google, along
with the usual request headers. This happens automatically when the page loads, before you interact with
anything.
Under GDPR an IP address is personal data. A 2022 Munich Regional Court ruling found a website operator liable for exactly this - transmitting a visitor's IP to Google via embedded fonts without a lawful basis - awarding the claimant €100 in damages, on the reasoning that self-hosting was a readily available alternative.
Fonts load from Google
- ⚠️ Visitor IP addresses reach Google on every page load
- ⚠️ It happens before any consent could be given
- ⚠️ Data may be processed outside the EU
- ⚠️ For an EU audience this is the site's main exposure
Self-host the fonts
- ✅ Download the font files and serve them from your own domain
- ✅ Removes the third-party request entirely
- ✅ No consent banner needed for this
- ✅ Usually loads faster too, since it's one fewer connection
This is a change to the site rather than to this policy. If you self-host, delete this section - it will no longer be true.
Hosting and server logs
This site is served by REPLACE_WITH_HOSTING_PROVIDER. Like almost all web hosts, they may automatically record technical information when a page is requested - typically the IP address, the time of the request, which page was requested, and the browser's user-agent string. These logs are generated and retained by the host, not by this site, and are used for delivering the site and for security purposes.
For details of what is retained and for how long, see your host's own privacy documentation and link it here.
The playground and interactive tools
The playground
The playground page connects to http://localhost:11434 - software running on
your computer. Your prompts and the model's replies never reach this site or any server we
control, and no copy is retained anywhere by us.
If you've configured that local software to forward requests elsewhere, that's governed by whatever you pointed it at, not by this policy.
Calculators and selectors
The VRAM calculator, runtime selector, model comparator and FAQ search all run as JavaScript in your browser. Nothing you select or type is transmitted, and nothing is stored between visits.
Refreshing the page resets them, because there's deliberately no persistence.
The contact form
If you send a message through the contact page, we receive what you type: the topic, your message, and optionally the page you're referring to and your email address. The email address is optional and is used only to reply.
Submissions are processed by REPLACE_WITH_FORM_PROCESSOR, whose own privacy terms apply to the handling of that data. Messages are kept only as long as needed to respond and to action any correction, and are not used for marketing or shared with anyone else.
Links to other sites
This site links out extensively - to Google's documentation, Hugging Face, Kaggle, Ollama, GitHub, arXiv and others. Following a link takes you to a service with its own privacy practices, over which we have no control and for which we take no responsibility. Those links are plain hyperlinks: nothing is embedded from those sites, and no data is passed to them unless you choose to click through.
Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have rights over personal data relating to you.
Access and correction
You can ask what data relating to you we hold and request that inaccuracies be corrected. In practice this is limited to contact form messages, since nothing else is collected.
Deletion
You can ask us to delete a message you sent. Server logs held by the host are subject to their retention policy rather than ours.
Complaint
If you're in the UK or EU and believe your data has been mishandled, you may complain to your national data protection authority.
Other matters
Children
This site is technical documentation aimed at developers. It isn't directed at children, and no data is knowingly collected from them.
Changes to this policy
If the site changes in a way that affects this policy - adding analytics, comments, or an embedded service - this page will be updated and the date at the top revised. Material changes will be noted here rather than made silently.
Data transfers outside your country
The font requests described in section 2 may be processed by Google outside the EU or UK. Your hosting provider and form processor may also operate internationally - check their documentation and note it here if that applies.
Legal basis for processing
Where GDPR applies: contact form data is processed on the basis of your consent in choosing to send it, and server logs on the basis of legitimate interest in operating and securing the site. The font requests in section 2 are the case where a clear basis is hardest to establish - which is the argument for self-hosting.
Who is responsible for this site
This is an independent community reference, not operated by or affiliated with Google or Google DeepMind. See the about page. Contact details are on the contact page.
Questions about any of this?
The contact page reaches us, and the about page explains what this site is.