Privacy Policy
Last updated: January 16, 2025
At Free AI Image Generator, we are committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you use our service. Please read this policy carefully.
1. Information We Collect
We collect minimal information necessary to provide and improve our service: • Automatically Collected Information: IP address (for rate limiting and abuse prevention), browser type and version (for compatibility), device information (for optimization), usage patterns and timestamps (for service improvement), referral source (for analytics). • User-Provided Information: Text prompts you submit for image generation (temporarily processed, not permanently stored), language preferences (stored locally in browser), Cloudflare Turnstile verification tokens (for bot prevention). • We DO NOT collect: Personal identification information (name, email, phone), account credentials (no registration required), payment information (service is free), location data beyond IP-based country detection.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use collected information for the following purposes: • Service Delivery: Processing your prompts to generate images, optimizing generation speed and quality, delivering generated images to your browser. • Abuse Prevention: Implementing rate limits to prevent overuse, detecting and blocking malicious bots and scrapers, identifying and preventing abuse of our service, maintaining service availability for all users. • Service Improvement: Analyzing usage patterns to improve features, monitoring system performance and reliability, identifying and fixing technical issues. • Legal Compliance: Complying with applicable laws and regulations, responding to legal requests from authorities, protecting our rights and the rights of others.
3. Data Storage and Retention
We minimize data storage and implement strict retention policies: • Prompts: Your text prompts are processed in real-time and NOT permanently stored. They are held in memory during generation and immediately discarded after completion. • Generated Images: Images are temporarily cached for delivery (typically 1-2 hours) and then automatically deleted. We do not maintain long-term storage of your generated images. • Usage Logs: IP addresses and timestamps for rate limiting are stored in Redis cache with automatic expiration (24-hour maximum). Aggregated analytics data (no personal information) is retained for service improvement. • Security Data: Fingerprints and security tokens used for abuse prevention are stored temporarily (5-30 minutes) and automatically expire.
4. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
We use cookies and similar technologies for limited purposes: • Essential Cookies: Language preference cookie (stores your selected language), Cloudflare security cookies (for bot protection), session cookies (for rate limiting). • Analytics Cookies: Google Analytics cookies (for anonymized usage statistics), these cookies help us understand how users interact with our service. • Advertising Cookies: Google AdSense cookies (for displaying relevant ads), these support our free service model. • You can control cookies through your browser settings. Disabling certain cookies may limit some functionality.
5. Third-Party Services
We work with trusted third-party services that have their own privacy policies: • AI Image Generation: We use enterprise AI services to process your prompts and generate images. These services process data according to their own privacy policies and data protection agreements. • Cloudflare: Provides DDoS protection, CDN services, and Turnstile verification. Data processed: IP addresses, HTTP headers. Privacy policy: cloudflare.com/privacypolicy • Google AdSense: Displays advertisements on our site. Data processed: Cookies, browsing behavior. Privacy policy: policies.google.com/privacy • Google Analytics: Provides anonymized usage statistics. Data processed: Aggregated user behavior. Privacy policy: policies.google.com/privacy These third parties are contractually bound to protect your data and use it only for specified purposes.
6. Data Security
We implement industry-standard security measures to protect your information: • Encryption: All data transmission uses HTTPS/TLS encryption, generated images are served over secure connections. • Access Controls: Limited employee access to systems, regular security audits and monitoring, automated threat detection systems. • Infrastructure Security: Secure cloud hosting with enterprise-grade protection, DDoS mitigation through Cloudflare, regular security updates and patches. • Data Minimization: We collect only necessary data, temporary data is automatically deleted, no permanent storage of user content. However, no internet transmission is 100% secure. While we strive to protect your data, we cannot guarantee absolute security.
7. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on your location, you may have the following rights: • Access: Request information about data we've collected about you (typically minimal as we don't store much). • Deletion: Request deletion of your data (most data is automatically deleted within 24 hours). • Opt-Out: Opt out of personalized advertising through your browser or device settings, disable analytics cookies through browser settings. • Do Not Track: We respect browser Do Not Track signals for analytics. • GDPR Rights (EU users): Right to rectification, right to data portability, right to object to processing, right to lodge complaints with supervisory authorities. • CCPA Rights (California users): Right to know what data is collected, right to request deletion, right to opt-out of data sales (note: we don't sell data). To exercise your rights, contact us through the website with details of your request.
8. Children's Privacy
Our service is not directed to children under 13 (or 16 in the EU). We do not knowingly collect information from children. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with information, please contact us, and we will delete it promptly.
9. International Data Transfers
Our service is hosted on global cloud infrastructure and may process data in multiple countries. We ensure adequate protection through: • Standard contractual clauses with service providers, compliance with GDPR and other data protection regulations, encryption of data in transit and at rest. By using our service, you consent to international data transfers as described.
10. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our practices or legal requirements. We will notify users of material changes by: • Updating the 'Last Updated' date at the top of this policy, posting a notice on our website, continuing to use the service after changes constitutes acceptance of the updated policy. We encourage you to review this policy periodically.
11. Contact Us
If you have questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us: • Through our website contact form • By email (if provided on our website) We will respond to your inquiries within a reasonable timeframe, typically within 30 days.