What we store

Paintings you create: the converted template, your uploaded photo, brushstrokes, chat-free progress data, and the painter names attached to them. Notes you send us through the Help page (delivered to our inbox by FormSubmit, our form delivery service). That is the whole list. There are no accounts, so we hold no emails, no passwords for you, and no profiles.

What stays on your device

Your painter name and color, your list of visited paintings, workspace preferences, and painting passwords you have entered are kept in your browser's local storage. “Forget me on this device” in Settings clears all of it.

Chat

Chat messages travel live between painters in a room and are not stored on our servers. Close the room and they are gone.

Uploads

Photos you upload are used only to build your painting and show it to the people you paint with. Deleting a painting deletes its photo and every brushstroke with it. Please only upload photos you have the right to use.

Analytics

We use Vercel Web Analytics to count visits and see which pages people enjoy. It is cookie-free, does not follow you across the web, and does not store personal information. We use it to answer one question: is anyone painting?

Ads and cookies

To keep Paint Together free, we plan to show a small number of ads from Google AdSense beside the canvas, never on it. When ads start serving, Google may use cookies for ad delivery, and visitors in regions that require it will be asked for consent first. Until then, there are no ad cookies at all.

What we never do

Sell or share your data, train models on your photos, or email you (we could not if we wanted to; we do not have your email).

Questions or removals

Use the note form on the Help page or email hello@paintbynumberstogether.com and we will sort it out, including deleting anything of yours on request.