Privacy, Ownership, and Simulation Disclaimer

We built ProFacet so you can explore gem designs without wondering what we do with your data. This page captures the short version of our privacy stance and the legal fine print.

Cookies and tracking

• We do not use third-party cookies, analytics pixels, or advertising trackers.
• Session cookies stay first-party (scoped to profacet.app) and exist only to keep you signed in when you opt into account features.

Design ownership

• Your designs remain yours. We do not mine, resell, or reuse them.
• Designs are only shared outside your account when you submit them to an official contest.

Hosting and infrastructure

• ProFacet is hosted on Firebase (Google Cloud). Think of it as renting a secure storage unit: we control the keys and decide what lives there.
• Firebase serves the app over our own domain, so it does not drop third-party cookies or inject ads—everything you load still counts as first-party traffic.
• When you enable cloud sync, the files you pick are stored in Firebase solely so you can reach them from another device. Firebase acts as our subprocessor and cannot repurpose that data.
• Plain-language version for non-technical folks: we use Google’s servers the way you might use a bank vault. They keep the lights on, but they do not get to open the box, copy your designs, or sell your activity.

Storage model

• Projects live in your browser or desktop client first. They stay local unless and until you enable cloud sync.
• Cloud sync mirrors exactly the files you pick to your account so you can retrieve them on another machine; disable it and no further uploads occur.

Simulation disclaimer

• The renderer, analyzer, and optimizer are sophisticated simulations, but they are still simulations.
• Real stones will deviate because of polishing, material tolerances, lighting, and refractive index variance, so treat virtual results as guidance rather than a guarantee of optical performance.