Summary for Developers
CodeShot is engineered with a strict zero-data retention, client-side first architecture. Code snippets pasted into the main studio are processed, highlighted, and rendered directly in your browser using HTML5 Canvas. We never store, log, inspect, or sell your proprietary code.
1. Overview & Controller
This Privacy Policy governs the manner in which CodeShot ("we", "our", or "us"), accessible via https://codeshot.in, collects, uses, maintains, and discloses information collected from users ("User" or "you") of the website.
2. Data Collection and Usage
Code Snippets & Content:
When you use the CodeShot web application, all syntax parsing and image composition happen locally within your web browser via client-side JavaScript. Unless you explicitly make a GET request to our server-side rendering API endpoint (/render), your source code is never transmitted to our backend servers.
Standard Log Files:
Like almost all web servers, CodeShot follows standard logging procedures. The information collected by log files includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any personally identifiable information and are strictly used to diagnose server issues, prevent DDoS attacks, and administer the website.
3. Cookies and Web Beacons
CodeShot may use cookies and local storage to remember your custom configuration preferences (such as your chosen film stock, window style, background gradient, and font sizing).
4. Google AdSense & Advertising Partners
We use third-party advertising companies, including Google LLC ("Google"), to serve advertisements when you visit our website. These companies may use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites across the Internet:
- Google DoubleClick DART Cookies: Google is a third-party vendor on our site. It uses cookies (known as DART cookies) to serve targeted advertisements to our site visitors based on their visit to codeshot.in and other sites on the internet.
- Users may opt out of the use of DART cookies by visiting the Google Ad and Content Network Privacy Policy at: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads.
- Third-party ad servers or ad networks use technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on CodeShot. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs.
5. Analytics & Third-Party Services
We may employ privacy-focused web analytics services to understand general audience numbers and referral sources. These tools do not record keystrokes, personal identity, or sensitive code snippet contents.
6. GDPR & CCPA Compliance
Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), you are entitled to rights including access, rectification, erasure, and objection to data collection. Because CodeShot does not maintain user accounts, databases of user profiles, or stored code repositories, we hold no personal profile data.
7. Children's Information
CodeShot does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13.