Privacy

No Third-Party Tracking

This site does not use any third-party analytics, tracking scripts, or external font services. All resources are served from our own domain. No data is shared with Google, Facebook, or any other third party.

Page View Counting

We count page views using a simple server-side counter. This does not use cookies, does not store IP addresses, and does not collect any personal information. Only an anonymous count per pattern is stored.

Referrer Counting

When you arrive from another website, we count the domain name you came from (for example reddit.com) together with the page you landed on. Visits with no referrer are counted as “direct”.

This is stored as a plain tally per domain. It uses no cookies, records no IP address and no browser user agent, and is not tied to any identifier — the counts cannot be traced back to an individual visit. Clicking from one page of this site to another is not recorded at all.

Hearts / Favorites

When you click the heart button on a pattern, our server sets a small cookie (bos-vid) containing a random anonymous identifier. This cookie is only set when you actively click the heart button — it is not set on regular page visits.

The cookie is used solely to prevent duplicate votes and does not contain any personally identifiable information such as your name, email address, or IP address.

Local Storage

Your browser stores the following locally (never sent to our server, and not shared between your devices):

  • Theme preference (light/dark mode)
  • Cached list of patterns you have hearted (for instant UI feedback)
  • Pattern variations you saved — the slider values, plus a name if you gave one
  • Posters you saved — the seed, the colour seed and the slider values behind the sheet, plus a name if you gave one

Saved variations and posters live on the Collected page. Clearing your browser storage removes them, and we keep no copy.

Data Storage

We store the following data in a cloud database:

  • Anonymous heart counters per pattern (public vote counts)
  • Anonymous identifier associations (to prevent duplicate votes)
  • Anonymous page view counters per pattern
  • Counts of referring domains and landing pages (no identifiers, see above)

We do not store IP addresses, browser user agents, or any other metadata that could be used to identify individual visitors.

Your Rights

Under GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), you have the right to:

  • Request deletion of your anonymous identifier
  • Access information about stored data associated with your identifier
  • Object to the processing of your data

To exercise these rights, please contact us with your anonymous identifier (stored in your browser's cookies under the name bos-vid).

Contact

For privacy-related inquiries or data deletion requests, please contact:

Book of Shapes
Email: nikolaj@creasurf.net

Last updated: August 29, 2026