Privacy
Short, because there is little to describe. Your photograph is never uploaded, and nothing here identifies you unless you ask for a consultant and type in your contact. What follows is the whole of it, written so it can be checked against the source code rather than believed.
Your photograph
It never leaves your device. The crop, the straightening and the print sheet are drawn on a canvas inside the browser tab, and the background is removed by a neural network that runs on your machine. There is no upload, so there is no copy of your face on any server of ours — not deleted later, never received. The checker works the same way: it measures the file in the tab and reports what it found.
The models
Removing a background and finding a face need a model, and that model is downloaded from a content delivery network the first time you ask for it. That request tells the network your IP address and which file you asked for, as any download does. The model is then kept in your browser's cache, so the second time it works with no network at all. Nothing about your photograph travels with it.
Counting visits
This site runs its own visit counter, on its own server. It sets no cookie, stores nothing in your browser and creates no identifier, so it cannot follow you between visits or between sites. Each event records the page path, the referring site if you came from one, the time, any campaign tags in the URL, and which controls were used — never what you uploaded. As with every web server, ours sees the IP address the request came from.
Google's measurement
There is a Google Tag Manager container, and it starts switched off. Consent Mode defaults are declared before it loads, so until you allow it, it stores nothing and reads nothing. Advertising storage is denied at the default and nothing on this site can grant it. If you allow analytics, Google receives the ordinary things it receives everywhere: page, referrer, approximate location, device.
What is kept in your browser
Three things, all local: your answer to the consent question, which background model you prefer, and the model files themselves. Clearing this site's data in your browser removes all three, and the site works exactly as before afterwards — it will simply ask again and download again.
If you ask for a consultant
The chat sends nothing until you press send. It sends what you typed (the chat messages, including any contact you leave), the page you were on and the country your connection comes from. The request is stored in a Cloudflare D1 database and e-mailed to us. We read it, also with the help of an AI assistant, and answer you; when you need a consultant, we pass it to one who handles that country, and they contact you. Consultants may pay us for these introductions. Replies in the chat are written by Anthropic's Claude model, which receives the messages for that purpose. Your IP address is used only to limit how often the form can be sent, and is not stored. Requests are kept for a year and then deleted. To have yours deleted sooner, write to [email protected].
Email when DV-2027 opens
On the DV lottery pages you can leave an e-mail address to get one message when the State Department announces the DV-2027 entry dates. We store the address, the page and its language in a Cloudflare D1 database and use it for that message and nothing else; it is not passed to consultants or anyone else. The message will go out through an e-mail delivery service and will carry a link that deletes the address at once. After it is sent the address is deleted within 30 days, and in any case after a year. To have it deleted sooner, write to [email protected].
Hosting
The pages are static files served by Cloudflare Pages, which keeps the request logs any host keeps, including IP addresses, to serve the site and defend it from abuse. We do not read them for any other purpose.
Accounts, payment, rights
There is no account, nothing to sign up for and nothing to pay. The only record tied to a person is a consultant request, if you sent one: write to [email protected] and we will tell you what we hold, correct it or delete it. If you allowed Google's analytics and want that undone, use the button below — it takes effect immediately and the tag stops storing anything. For anything else, write to us.
Cleared. The bar will ask again on the next page.
Contact
Write to [email protected]. The source code is public, so any claim on this page can be checked rather than trusted.