Privacy Policy

What we collect

• Your X or Google profile basics at sign-in: username/handle, display name, profile picture URL, and (from X, only if you grant the email permission) your email address.
• The content you submit to generate GIFs: text, image URLs, tweet links, uploaded images.
• Generated results: your sprite sheets and GIFs, stored in object storage and shown in the public gallery/wall.
• Basic usage telemetry: page views and generation counts, aggregated.

Why

To run the service: create your profile, generate and store your GIFs, show the gallery, keep accounts secure (session cookies), and prevent abuse (rate limiting by IP).

Third parties

• Sign-in: X (Twitter) and Google authenticate you. We receive only the profile fields listed above.
• AI generation: submitted content and generated images are processed by our AI model providers to produce sprite sheets. We do not sell your data to them.
• Storage: GIFs and sheets are stored in cloud object storage.

Public content

GIFs you export are public by default and appear in the gallery at /wall and on your public profile at /your-handle. Do not submit content you are not allowed to share.

Cookies

We set one httpOnly session cookie when you sign in, plus an anonymous author id used to associate your generations with you. No advertising or tracking cookies.

Your choices

• Delete a GIF any time from its page or your profile.
• Want your account and all content removed? Email the address in the app footer or DM the operator on X and we will delete everything.

Contact

8gifs is operated by an independent developer. Reach the operator on X @kinder_grinder.