In short
- Your work never leaves your computer. Models, textures, HDRIs, saved scenes and renders are read, rendered and stored in your browser. They are never uploaded to us.
- No accounts. You don't sign up or sign in, so we don't hold your name, email or password.
- No third-party tracking. We don't use advertising, cookies or tracking pixels, and no analytics company ever sees your visit.
- Anonymous counts. We count visits and studio actions ourselves, as plain tallies that can't identify you.
- What we do see is what any website sees when you visit: the standard information your browser sends to load a page.
This policy explains each of these in detail. It applies to auddomate.com, including the studio, the Docs and the changelog. In it, "Auddomate", "we" and "us" mean the people who run auddomate.com.
What stays on your computer
Auddomate is built so that your work never needs to leave your machine. Everything below is kept by your browser, on your device, for auddomate.com only. We cannot see it.
- Your models and textures, and any HDRI you load, while the studio is open.
- Saved scenes, including copies of the models and HDRIs they use.
- Render history and paused renders, so a long render can pick up where it left off.
- Your preferences, such as the theme, the language, the panel tab you last used and your save options.
These are stored using your browser's standard storage, known as local storage and IndexedDB. They are not cookies and are never sent to us. You can remove all of them at any time by clearing your browser's site data for auddomate.com. Files you download, such as saved renders and .auddomate scene files, are yours to keep and share as you choose.
What our server sees
When you visit auddomate.com, your browser asks our web server for the pages, images and code that make up the site. Like almost every website, our hosting provider's server records these requests in standard logs. A log entry typically includes:
- your IP address,
- the date and time,
- the page or file requested,
- the address of the page that linked you here, if any, and
- your browser and operating system, as your browser reports them.
We use these logs only to keep the site running, secure and fast, for example to spot errors or block abuse. We don't use them to profile you or link them to anything else, and we don't sell them. They are kept for a limited time and then deleted.
The studio's own code, the rendering engine, the Docs and the checks are all served from auddomate.com.
How we count visits
To learn which pages help people and which features they use, auddomate.com counts visits itself, on our own server. No analytics company is involved, and nothing is shared or sold.
- What's counted: which page was opened, the site that linked you here (its name only, like x.com), your browser's language, and studio actions such as a render finishing, a model being imported, an image being saved or a plugin sending a scene. Each is added to a daily tally.
- Visitors, without identities: to count each visitor once a day, we combine your IP address and browser name with a secret that changes every day, and keep only a one-way fingerprint. Your IP address itself is never stored. The secret is thrown away each day and the fingerprints after two days, so a visit can't be traced back to you or linked to another day.
- Never your work: file names, models, scenes and renders are never counted or sent.
- Your choice: if your browser sends Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track, nothing is counted at all.
Other services we use
A few parts of the site are delivered by well-known services. When your browser loads them, those services receive the same standard information as our server, including your IP address, under their own privacy policies.
- jsDelivr delivers Lucid UI, the open-source interface library the studio is built with. See the jsDelivr privacy policy.
- Google Fonts delivers a typeface used for numbers in the studio, the Docs and the changelog. See the Google privacy policy.
Neither service receives your models, renders or anything you do in the studio.
When you email us
If you write to us, we receive your email address, your message and anything you attach. We use them only to reply to you and to improve Auddomate, and we keep them only as long as needed for that. We never add you to a mailing list without asking.
Payments
Auddomate is free to use today and takes no payments. If we offer paid plans in the future, payments will be handled by a trusted payment provider, and we will update this policy before any payment information is collected.
Children
Auddomate is a creative tool that anyone can use without sharing personal information. We don't knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has sent us personal information by email, contact us and we will delete it.
Your rights
Auddomate is based in Canada, and we handle personal information in line with Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA). Wherever you live, you can ask us:
- what personal information we hold about you, if any,
- to correct it, and
- to delete it.
Since we hold almost nothing, usually only an email you sent us, these requests are simple. Write to hello@auddomate.com and we'll respond within 30 days. If you're not satisfied with our answer, you can contact the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, or the data protection authority where you live.
Changes to this policy
If we change how Auddomate handles information, we'll update this page and the date at the top. For significant changes, we'll also say so in the changelog.
Contact
Questions about privacy, or a request about your information, are welcome at any time:
hello@auddomate.com