The short version
- You can design without an account. Your designs are saved in your own browser, and we don't receive them.
- If you sign in with Google, we keep your name, email address and profile picture, plus the designs and images you save, so they open on your other devices.
- Video and audio files you add never leave your browser. Background removal runs on your device.
- We use Google Analytics to see how Layquil is used. In the EEA, the UK and Switzerland we ask first.
- We don't sell your information and we don't show ads.
Who we are
Layquil ("we", "us") runs layquil.com, a free online design maker. We are responsible for the information described here. For anything about this policy or your information, write to layquil.app@gmail.com.
What we collect
When you use Layquil without an account
Designs you make, and pictures you upload to them, are saved in your browser's storage on your device. They stay there until you delete them or clear your browser's data. We don't receive them.
When you sign in with Google
Google shares with us your name, email address (and whether it is verified), profile picture, language setting and Google account ID. We record when your account was created and when you last signed in. We never see your Google password.
Designs and files in your account
While you are signed in, the designs you save (their titles, pages and content) and the images they use are copied to your account, so they open on your other devices. Images you upload to your library are copied too. Video and audio clips are not: they stay only in the browser you added them in.
How the site is used
Google Analytics records the pages you visit, roughly where you are (country and city, worked out from your IP address), your device and browser, the site that sent you, and a few actions: creating a design, using a template, downloading or printing (with the file format and page count), and signing in or signing up.
We never send Google Analytics the titles or contents of your designs, your file names or your email address. Every design page is reported under the same generic address. Google's advertising features and Google signals are turned off.
Technical information
Like any website, our servers and our network provider receive your IP address and browser details when your browser asks for a page, to deliver it and to keep the service safe. Your country, as our network provider reports it, decides whether we ask before using analytics cookies.
When you write to us
We keep your email and our reply so we can help you and follow up.
What stays on your device
- Background removal runs in your browser. The first time you use it, your browser downloads the model from Hugging Face; your picture is never uploaded.
- Downloads and printing (PDF, PNG, JPEG, WebP and MP4) are made in your browser.
- Video and audio clips you add are kept in your browser only.
How we use it
- To run Layquil: your account, syncing your designs and images, and downloads, which need a free account. This is necessary to provide the service you asked for.
- To keep it safe and working: preventing abuse and fixing problems. This is in our legitimate interest in running a secure, reliable service.
- To understand and improve it: Google Analytics. In the EEA, the UK and Switzerland we rely on your consent; elsewhere, on our legitimate interest in knowing which features people use.
- To reply to you when you write to us.
We don't sell or rent your information, we don't use it for advertising, and we don't make automated decisions about you that have legal or similar effects.
Where it is processed
Our servers are in India (Amazon Web Services, Mumbai). Our providers may process information in other countries, including the United States. Where the law requires it, these transfers rely on safeguards such as the European Commission's standard contractual clauses, which our providers offer.
How long we keep it
- Your account: until you ask us to delete it.
- Designs in your account: until you delete them. A deleted design is removed from our servers 30 days later.
- Images: an image no design uses any more is deleted after 7 days. Images in your upload library stay until you remove them.
- In your browser: until you delete them or clear your browser's data. When you sign out, the designs already copied to your account are removed from that browser.
- Google Analytics: 14 months.
Your rights and choices
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access the information we hold about you, correct it, delete it, receive a copy of it, object to or restrict how we use it, and withdraw your consent at any time (Cookie settings does this for analytics).
To delete your account and everything in it, or to make any other request, email layquil.app@gmail.com from the address you sign in with. We reply within 30 days. You can download your designs at any time from the editor.
If you are in the EEA, the UK or Switzerland, you can also complain to your local data protection authority.
Security
The site is served only over HTTPS. Sign-in tokens are kept in cookies the page's scripts can't read. Images in accounts are stored privately and shared with your browser through links that expire. Only a few people can reach account data, through tools that require two-step verification. No service can promise perfect security, so please tell us at layquil.app@gmail.com if you find a problem.
Children
Layquilis not meant for children under 13, or under the age their country requires to consent on their own. We don't knowingly collect their information; if you believe a child has given us information, write to us and we will delete it.
Changes to this policy
When we change this policy, we update the date at the top. If a change matters, we will say so on the site before it takes effect.
Contact
Questions or requests about your privacy: layquil.app@gmail.com.