Privacy
This is short because there is little to say. The editor runs in your browser and nothing you draw is sent anywhere.
What you draw
The network you are working on is kept in your browser's own storage, on your machine. It is not uploaded, not backed up and not visible to us. Clearing your browser data removes it, which is why the editor says, in more than one place, that the exported file is the real save.
There are no accounts at the moment. When accounts arrive — so that a network can follow you between machines — they will store an email address and the networks you choose to keep, and this page will say so before that is switched on, not after.
What the server sees
The pages are served by Firebase Hosting, which is Google. Like every web server, it records requests: the address they came from, the page asked for, the time, and what browser asked. Those logs sit with Google as our processor and we do not use them to build any picture of a person.
What is measured, if you allow it
There is one measurement tool here, Google Analytics, and it is switched off until you say otherwise. The first time you arrive a bar asks. Say no, or close the tab without answering, and nothing is loaded at all — not the tag, not a cookieless ping, no request to Google of any kind. Say yes and it is loaded then and not before.
What it counts, if you allow it, is pages: which ones get read, roughly where the visit came from, and what kind of browser it was. In the editor it also counts a handful of acts — that somebody ran the example, started a network, opened a file, or saved one. It counts that they happened, never what was in them. Nothing you draw is sent anywhere in either case, because it never leaves your browser at all.
Your answer is kept in this browser and nothing else, so it is remembered on the next visit and asked again if you clear your browser. Changing your mind means clearing the site's data, and if that is a nuisance, write to us and we will make it a link on this page.
Cookies
If you agreed to the above, Google Analytics sets its own — _ga and one named for the property — which is what the bar was asking about, and the only reason there is a bar at all.
Everything else your browser keeps here is functional and first-party: the network you are drawing, the file it was last saved to, and your answer about measurement. All of it exists so that closing the tab does not lose your work, none of it is sent anywhere, and none of it is used to recognise you.
Advertising, if it is ever added, will bring its own consent step in the form Google requires for visitors in the UK and the EEA. There is none today.
If you write to us
Mail sent to hello@4-loop.com reaches a person, and is kept only so the conversation makes sense. It is not added to any list.
Your rights
Where data protection law applies to you — the UK and EU GDPR, and comparable law elsewhere — you have the right to know what is held about you, to have it corrected or deleted, and to have a copy of it. Ask at the address above. Today the honest answer to most such requests is that we hold nothing but any correspondence you started, and your networks have never left your machine. When that stops being true, this page will change first.
Who is behind it
This site is Pablo Flores's, and there is no company behind it — no organisation, nobody being sold anything, and no arrangement with a third party that any of this data could be part of. Write to hello@4-loop.com about anything here, including this page.