Privacy Policy

Privacy overview

You can use Color Pick without creating an account. Core palette creation, color analysis, CPS matching, image color extraction, challenges, and export generation are designed to run in the browser.

Color Pick does not operate a server-side account database for ordinary tool use. Third-party services may still receive limited technical information when you load external services, send email, make a donation, or when analytics or advertising are enabled.

Local browser data

Color Pick may store tool preferences, recent colors, saved palettes, chart configurations, challenge progress, and interface state in localStorage or similar browser storage. Larger palette, color-system, and chart projects may be stored in separate versioned IndexedDB stores.

This information normally remains within the browser profile and device where it was created. It may be removed by you, your browser, storage-cleaning software, private-browsing behavior, device policies, or browser quota management.

Export important projects before clearing browser data. Color Pick cannot recover a local project that has been deleted and was not backed up.

Image processing

Images selected in the Image Color Picker are processed locally using browser technologies such as Canvas. Color Pick does not require those images to be uploaded to a Color Pick server.

Image contents are not included in share links or QR codes. Temporary image data is generally released when you reset the tool, close the page, or end the browser session, subject to normal browser memory behavior.

Share links, QR codes, imports, and exports

A share link or QR code may contain encoded palette colors, semantic roles, gradient settings, or other tool state. Anyone who receives the link may be able to view that state. Do not include confidential names or sensitive information in shareable fields.

Project, palette, CSS, and design-token imports are read locally. The Design System Doctor parses supported token values in the page; imported filenames and file contents are not intentionally sent to analytics. Exports are created by your browser and saved to a location you choose. You are responsible for protecting exported files and deciding who receives them.

Chart CSV, TSV, JSON, pasted spreadsheet tables, project files, previews, descriptions, simulations, and exports are also processed locally. A chart share URL uses a URL fragment and has an explicit size limit. You must confirm before including source data; a configuration-only option replaces it with example data. A copied link can still expose its fragment to recipients, browser history, extensions, screenshots, or any service where you paste it.

Analytics

Color Pick uses Google Analytics 4 to understand aggregate page performance, device categories, traffic sources, and feature usage. Google may process technical information such as IP-derived location, browser type, operating system, page URL, referrer, and event timestamps according to the configured consent state and Google’s policies.

Google Analytics is configured with Consent Mode v2. For visitors in the EEA, United Kingdom, and Switzerland, advertising and analytics storage default to denied until an enabled consent mechanism communicates the visitor’s available choices. Outside those regions, no denied default is applied unless another applicable consent setting requires it. Analytics should not intentionally include uploaded image contents, filenames, exported project files, direct email messages, or the complete contents of a private local project library.

When a visit is attributed to ChatGPT, Color Pick may recognize the public utm_source=chatgpt.com parameter or the referring hostname, record a session-level attribution marker, and emit an aggregate ai_referral_visit analytics event. The event contains the landing path and attribution method, not the selected image, palette contents, email address, or full search prompt.

Advertising and Google cookies

Color Pick uses Google AdSense when advertising is enabled. Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies or similar technologies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to Color Pick or other websites.

Google’s use of advertising cookies enables Google and its partners to serve personalized or non-personalized ads, depending on consent, settings, location, and applicable requirements. Users can manage personalized advertising through Google Ads Settings. Learn more about how Google uses information from partner sites through Google’s partner-sites privacy information.

Other third-party advertising vendors or ad networks may also use cookies where enabled. Their identities and available controls may be presented through the consent interface or the relevant provider disclosures.

Advertising is visually separated from tool controls. Clicking, viewing, or ignoring an advertisement does not change palette results, CPS matches, scores, downloads, or access to Color Pick features.

Consent and privacy choices

Where required, Color Pick will use a consent mechanism before non-essential cookies or similar storage are used for advertising or measurement. When Google ads are served to users in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, the implementation should use a Google-certified consent management platform that supports the applicable IAB Transparency and Consent Framework requirements.

You may be able to accept, reject, or manage available categories through the consent message. You can also clear browser cookies and site data through your browser settings. See the Cookie Policy for category-level details.

Email, feedback, donations, and external links

The feedback composer prepares a message in your browser and opens your email application. Color Pick does not receive the message unless you send it. Your email provider and the receiving email provider process the message under their own policies.

The donation button opens Sociabuzz or another configured third-party provider. Color Pick does not collect payment-card details. The provider may collect transaction and account information under its own terms and privacy policy.

External websites linked from Color Pick are responsible for their own privacy practices. Review their policies before submitting information.

Retention, deletion, and your choices

Local Color Pick data remains until it is deleted by you, the application, or the browser environment. You can delete projects inside Color Pick or clear site data through browser controls.

Email correspondence may be retained as reasonably necessary to respond, maintain records, prevent abuse, or meet legal obligations. Third-party analytics, advertising, donation, and email providers apply their own retention rules.

You may contact Color Pick to ask a privacy question. Because Color Pick generally does not maintain user accounts, we may not be able to identify or retrieve local browser data stored only on your device.

Children’s privacy

Color Pick is a general-audience design tool and is not directed specifically to young children. Do not send personal information about a child through email or feedback. Parents and guardians should supervise use when appropriate.

Policy changes and contact

This policy may be updated when features, service providers, legal requirements, or advertising configurations change. The revision date at the top of the page identifies the current published version.

Privacy questions can be sent to hello@colorpick.site. Do not include passwords, payment details, or unnecessary sensitive information.