Privacy

Last updated 8 September 2026. This page lists what millirec stores, item by item, because the honest answer is "very little".

The principle

Recognition happens on the device. A drawing is turned into a vote, a letter, or a symbol in the visitor's own browser; the drawing itself is not needed on our server to do that, and the character recognizers you download never contact us at all.

Widgets: what a vote sends

The vote: the widget id, the target id, and the reaction kind or the number of stars.
A voter hash: a random token the widget keeps in the visitor's browser storage, hashed together with the visitor's IP address. Only the hash is stored (32 hex characters); it is what makes a vote count once per visitor and lets a rating be revised. The IP address itself is not stored.
A thumbnail of the drawing (a small PNG or WebP, at most 200 KB), only when the widget owner has turned on "show visitors' drawings". The last few thumbnails are shown on the page next to the widget.
When the vote was made.

The widget sets no cookies. It uses the browser's local storage for the voter token.

Widget owners

A widget stores the configuration you chose, the drawing samples you added for its symbols, an edit token, and the time it was created. There is no account, no email, and no name.

The library builder

Everything you draw or upload stays in your browser unless you press save to server, which stores the library's configuration and training samples under a random id with an edit token, so the link can be reopened later. Downloads are assembled in your browser.

Handwriting samples

The site can accept handwriting samples that a writer chooses to donate for training. A donated sample is the strokes, the text they were meant to spell, and a random per-browser id that groups one hand's samples; no name or contact is attached. Donation is always an explicit action, never a side effect of using a widget or a recognizer.

Server logs

Like any web server, ours keeps standard access logs (address, page, time, browser identification) for operation and abuse prevention. They are kept for a limited time and are not used for advertising or sold. We use no third-party analytics, advertising, or tracking scripts.

Third parties

The service is self-hosted. No data is sent to third-party services. The optional badge image is served from this site.

Deleting data

Turning off "show visitors' drawings" in the widget editor stops thumbnails from being collected or shown from then on. To have stored drawings, votes, a widget, a library, or a donated sample removed, write to robmwilc@gmail.com with the id in question; there is no self-service deletion yet.

Who is responsible

millirec is operated by Robert Wilcox, in the state of South Carolina, USA. Questions about this page: robmwilc@gmail.com.