Last updated 5 October 2026
The short version. This site sets no cookies, runs no analytics, embeds no third-party trackers, and has no login. If you only read pages here, nothing about you is stored by us beyond ordinary web-server logs. The only places you can type anything are the contact form and the whiteboard, and each is described below.
Reading the site collects nothing from you beyond the access logs below. The pages are plain HTML served from our own server. There is no advertising network, no social media pixel, no session cookie, and no fingerprinting script. The two places where you can submit text, the contact form and the whiteboard, are covered in their own sections.
Our web server keeps standard access logs, which contain your IP address, the page requested, the time, and your browser's user-agent string. These exist to keep the server running and to detect abuse. They are retained for 30 days and then deleted. They are not used to build a profile and are not shared.
If you email us, we hold that message and your address for as long as needed to deal with what you wrote about, and to keep a record of any agreement. Our mail is hosted on our own infrastructure and incoming mail is received directly by our own server. One caveat: our hosting provider blocks direct outgoing mail, so messages we send, including replies to you and the confirmation emails described below, are relayed through Brevo, an email delivery service, on their way to you. Ask and we will delete the correspondence.
The form on the home page asks for your name, your email address, a subject and a message. So that replies can reach you, we first send a confirmation link to the address you gave, and your message is delivered to us only after you open it. What we keep, and for how long:
We use what you send only to read and answer your message.
The Emerging Whiteboard is a public discussion board. There are no accounts and we do not ask for an email address. You may post under any name you choose, or none. Whatever you write, including the name you enter, is shown publicly once we approve it, so do not post anything you would not want to be public. Posts wait for review before they appear; rejected posts are deleted after 30 days. To have an approved post removed, email us and we will remove it. As with the contact form, your IP address is kept in memory for a few minutes to limit spam, and is not written to disk by the board.
The measurement scripts run entirely on your machine. They read model weights from your own disk, send nothing anywhere, and require no network access.
The hosted demonstration is a separate matter and you should assume less privacy there. It is hosted by Hugging Face under their privacy policy, not ours. Text you enter into the demonstration is processed to produce a response and may appear in server logs on that platform. Do not put confidential or personal information into it. It is a research demonstration, not a product, and it carries no confidentiality guarantee.
If you support the research financially, payment is handled entirely by the payment platform you choose. We never see or store your card details. We receive only what that platform passes on — typically a name, an email address and an amount — which we keep for accounting and tax purposes for as long as the law requires.
We do not sell, rent or trade personal information. There is no circumstance in which we would; there is no business model here that would benefit from it.
You may ask what we hold about you, ask for it to be corrected, or ask for it to be deleted, and we will comply within 30 days. If you are in the UK, EU or a jurisdiction with comparable law, those rights are yours by statute; we extend the same handling to everyone regardless of where you are, because maintaining two standards is more work than maintaining one good one.
Write to nick.bumgarner@emerging.systems.
This site is not directed at children and we do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 16.
If this policy changes materially, the date at the top changes and the previous version remains available in the site's version history. We will not quietly broaden what we collect.
A note on scope. This policy describes what the site actually does today. It was written to be accurate rather than defensive, and it is not legal advice. If you are relying on it for a compliance assessment, have your own counsel review it — particularly if your jurisdiction imposes obligations we have not anticipated.
