Privacy
Nothing you open leaves your device. No accounts, no tracking.
The short version
Splashery has no accounts, no cookies, no analytics, and no ads. Its pages are plain files, and its code has nothing that sends your files, your pictures, your microphone or camera, or a record of what you do to anyone.
Files you open
When you open a splat file, a photo, a PDF, a GIF, a video, a song, or a data file, your browser reads it and turns it into splats on your device. It isn't uploaded. A link you share carries the Splash and your settings, and for your own files only the settings, plus a web address if you chose one.
The microphone, the camera, the screen, and your location
A Splash asks for the microphone, the camera, or screen capture only after you tap its button. Nothing is recorded, stored, or sent, except that Record saves a recording only to a file you choose. The Night Sky can ask where you are only when you tap for it, and it doesn't store or send the answer.
What the Playground reads from the internet
Larger files are read from Splashery's own file hosts, assets.splashery.app and ryanjosephkamp.github.io/splashery-assets. A few Splashes read open data, and only when you ask:
- Earthquakes. The public feed of the U.S. Geological Survey.
- Protein structures. The Protein Data Bank, by a code you give it.
Your browser asks those servers for the data, so they see the request the way any website does.
What stays in your browser
A few settings are kept in your browser's own storage, on your device: the theme, the Detail setting, the sound setting, and a few layout choices. They aren't sent anywhere, and clearing your site data removes them.
The Playground also keeps the Splashes you open in your browser's storage, so they can open again with no connection, up to 1 GB. They stay on your device, your own files aren't kept, and clearing your site data removes them.
Search
Search runs in your browser against a small index that ships with the site. What you type isn't sent anywhere.
Where the site is hosted
Needs Ryan's words: Who hosts splashery.app at 1.0, and what a host can see. The old text says GitHub Pages hosts everything; captures now also come from assets.splashery.app.
Questions
Needs Ryan's words: Where a privacy question goes.