Privacy policy
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privacypls.io is a small independent tool. This page explains, in plain English, what happens to what you submit. The short version: we don't store what you submit, we don't use cookies, and we don't track you. The companies that host the site keep their own standard records, described below.
What you submit
When you click Analyze, the text you pasted, or the text of the page at the link you entered, is sent to our app and then to Anthropic's API, where Claude (an AI model) analyzes it. When the result comes back, we send it to your browser and discard the text and the link. We don't save them to a database or a file, and we don't write them to our logs.
If you enter a link, our app fetches that page itself. The website you link to sees a request from our hosting provider, not from your device.
Don't paste anything personal or confidential, like your own account details. The tool is meant for public documents.
Anthropic
Anthropic processes the submitted text to produce the analysis. How Anthropic handles data sent to its API is described in Anthropic's privacy policy.
What we do store
To keep running costs under control, we keep daily totals of how many analyses ran, how many AI "tokens" they used, and the estimated cost, plus a running total of this month's spending. These totals contain no text, no links, and nothing about who ran them.
Rate limiting and bot protection
To stop abuse, each visitor can run one analysis every few minutes. To do this, our app turns your IP address into a scrambled code using a secret key that changes every few hours. Only the scrambled code is stored, in our database provider, and it is deleted automatically when your waiting period ends. Our app never stores your IP address itself.
Before each analysis, your browser solves a small puzzle that is hard for bots to do in bulk (this is ALTCHA, which runs entirely on this site; no outside service is contacted). Used puzzle answers are remembered for about 10 minutes so they can't be reused. There is also a hidden form field that people never fill in but some bots do.
Cookies, tracking and analytics
This site sets no cookies. It loads no advertising, no third-party trackers, and no analytics. If we add simple visitor counts in the future, they will be cookie-free, and this page will be updated first.
If you switch between dark and light mode, your choice is saved in your own browser's storage so the site remembers it. It is never sent to us.
Hosting and database providers
The site runs on Vercel. Like any hosting company, Vercel automatically records details of each request, including your IP address, to deliver and protect the site. We don't control those records; Vercel handles them under its privacy policy.
Our counters, spending totals, and the scrambled rate-limit codes are kept in a database run by Upstash, under its privacy policy.
Links that leave this site
Links to Anthropic, Vercel, Upstash, and other sites open those sites, which have their own privacy policies.
Contact
A contact option isn't available yet. This page will be updated when one is added.
Changes
If what the site does changes, this page will be updated first, and the date at the top will change.