Privacy Policy
Last updated: August 3, 2026
FractalPark is an open-source fractal art explorer. You can browse, create, and save artworks on your own device without telling us anything. An account is only needed when you choose to keep cloud drafts or publish to the Community. This page says exactly what an account touches — and what it never does.
What an account stores
Your email address, used only to sign you in with one-time codes. There is no password. A display name you choose. It is private until you publish; published works show it as the attribution line. Your cloud drafts (private) and your published artworks (public), including the parameters a remix needs.
What we never collect
No passwords — sign-in codes go to your email and expire. No advertising trackers, no cross-site profiling cookies, no sale or sharing of personal data with data brokers. Analytics never carry your email, IP address, artwork titles, draft contents, or any identifier that points back at you.
Cookies
Two, both boring. An encrypted, HttpOnly session cookie keeps you signed in; a small NEXT_LOCALE cookie remembers your language. Neither is readable by other sites. The session cookie is deleted when you sign out or delete your account; the locale cookie stays until you clear your browser data.
Analytics
We use aggregate, privacy-limited usage analytics to understand which features help people (for example: a publish succeeded, a guide was opened). Events follow a fixed schema that forbids emails, IPs, titles, and artwork content.
Email we send
Sign-in codes, always. Artwork backup emails, only if you turn them on. They are off by default. A backup email carries your artwork's complete configuration as an attachment; email is not encrypted storage, and we cannot retract an attachment once delivered. The setting page says this again before you enable it.
Private drafts, public works
Drafts are visible only to you. Publishing makes the artwork, its title and description, your display name, and the parameters public under the Community terms. Hidden or withdrawn works disappear from public view immediately.
Deleting your account
You can delete your account yourself, from the Gallery, at any time. Deletion asks for a fresh sign-in code and your typed email, then removes your drafts, withdraws your published works, ends your sessions, and erases your profile. A published work's attribution line remains as a tombstone so earlier remixes keep their source credit, and a minimal audit record (no email, no content) is kept for abuse investigation.
Where the data lives
Accounts and artworks are stored with our cloud database and hosting providers, on infrastructure we do not own. We choose mainstream providers and keep access keys off the client. Operational logs are short-lived and rate-limit records store only one-way hashes.
Changes and contact
If this policy changes in a way that affects you, the change ships in the open-source repository and this page's date moves. Questions, requests, and takedown reports: contact@fractalpark.com.