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Privacy Policy

Last updated: 2026-06-07

This privacy policy explains what data PrintablesWorld collects, what we do with it, and the rights you have over it. We aim to keep this page short and in plain English. If anything is unclear please get in touch at contact@brightscalelabs.com.

1. Who we are

PrintablesWorld is operated by Brightscale Labs. The data controller for the purposes of the UK GDPR is Brightscale Labs, contactable at contact@brightscalelabs.com.

2. What data we collect

PrintablesWorld is a static website that generates printable PDFs in your browser. We are deliberately light on data collection.

• Technical request data. When you visit a page, our hosting provider (Cloudflare) automatically receives your IP address, browser user-agent, the page you requested and a timestamp. This is standard web-server logging and is used only to keep the site online and protect it from abuse.
• Rate-limit counter. To stop automated scrapers downloading thousands of PDFs, we count how many times each IP address requests a download permit during a single UTC day. The count is stored in Cloudflare KV keyed by a SHA-256 hash of the IP address (not the raw IP) and auto-deletes after 25 hours.
• Turnstile verification. Each download triggers Cloudflare Turnstile (a privacy-focused CAPTCHA alternative). Turnstile inspects non-personal signals from your browser to decide whether you are human. It does not track you across sites and does not set persistent advertising cookies.
• Local preferences. If you pin tools in the sidebar, toggle dark mode, or adjust the dashboard font size, those choices are saved to your browser's localStorage. They stay on your device and are never sent to our servers.

3. What we do not collect

• No account system — we do not ask for your name, email or password.
• No Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel or third-party advertising network.
• No cross-site tracking cookies.
• No logging of the content you type into a tool (names on certificates, recipe ingredients, spelling lists — it all stays in your browser and goes straight into the PDF).
• No logging of the PDFs you generate.

4. Cookies

PrintablesWorld sets no advertising or cross-site tracking cookies. The only optional cookies come from Microsoft Clarity, which loads only if you accept in the cookie banner. If you accept, Clarity records aggregated heatmaps and anonymised session replays to help us improve the printables, and sets two cookies: _clck (about a year) and _clsk (session). Text you type into a tool is masked before anything is sent, so the values you enter are not captured. You can withdraw consent by clearing site data, after which the banner reappears. See Microsoft's Privacy Statement.

Separately, Cloudflare may set a small number of strictly-necessary cookies for bot protection and performance (for example __cf_bm); these cannot be disabled without breaking basic site functionality. Your accept/reject choice is stored in your browser's localStorage (not a cookie) so the banner does not reappear on every visit.

5. Third parties

• Cloudflare hosts the site, provides the CDN, SSL, DDoS protection and the Turnstile verification service. Cloudflare's privacy policy: cloudflare.com/privacypolicy.
• Microsoft provides Clarity (heatmaps and session replay), loaded only after you consent via the cookie banner. Microsoft's privacy statement: privacy.microsoft.com.
• GitHub hosts our source code. Visiting this website does not send any data to GitHub.

6. How long we keep data

• Web-server logs (at Cloudflare): retained per Cloudflare's standard policy, typically a few days.
• Rate-limit counters (hashed IP): automatically deleted after 25 hours.
• LocalStorage preferences on your device: kept until you clear your browser storage.

7. Your rights

Under the UK GDPR you have the right to access, correct, erase or restrict processing of personal data we hold about you, to object to processing, and to data portability. Because we don't run an account system, the only personal data we typically hold is transient server-log IP addresses. To exercise any of these rights, email contact@brightscalelabs.com with the subject "Privacy request".

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk) if you are unhappy with how we handle your data.

8. Children

Many of our tools are aimed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children. The site can be used without entering any personal data.

9. Changes to this policy

We will update this page when our practices change. The "Last updated" date at the top always reflects the most recent revision.

10. Contact

For any privacy-related question, email contact@brightscalelabs.com.