# Privacy

machinerelations.ai is a public reference. It does not run accounts, payments, or first-party analytics. This page states what is processed when you read the site.

Canonical URL: https://machinerelations.ai/privacy

## 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](/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](/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](/privacy.md).