What this site is #
machinerelations.ai is a public research and standards reference. You can read it without creating an account. There is no login, checkout, newsletter form, or comment system.
What we collect #
In your browser. The theme toggle stores a theme key in localStorage so the next visit can keep light or dark. The optional human/machine view stores mr-view-mode the same way. Both stay on your device; the server does not read them.
On the host. The site is served from a CDN/application host (currently Vercel, with Cloudflare in front). Those operators log ordinary request metadata — IP address, user-agent, path, referrer, timing — to operate the network and investigate abuse. We do not run a first-party analytics product on top of that.
Embedded and outbound resources. Some images are served from Google Cloud Storage. Footer tools link to ChatGPT and Gemini, which are third-party services with their own policies. Following those links leaves this site.
What we do not collect #
- No accounts or passwords.
- No payment data.
- No first-party advertising or cross-site tracking pixels.
- No contact form fields. The contact page does not submit personal information to this origin.
How long logs last #
Hosting logs follow the host's retention. We do not operate a separate marketing database of readers.
Contact about privacy #
Privacy questions about this reference use the same editorial surface as corrections: see Contact.
Changes #
If collection practices change — for example a first-party analytics tool or a real inbound mailbox — this page will change first. The machine-readable twin is privacy.md.