Privacy Policy

1. Introduction & Client-Side Processing

Welcome to Tristan's Digital Lab ("we", "our", or "us"). This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website and use our web applications (including TYF MegaOke and our utility tools).

Our Core Privacy Guarantee: The majority of tools hosted on Tristan's Lab are engineered as 100% client-side applications. This means when you use tools like our Pro Image Compressor or the MegaOke Synthesizer, your personal files (images, audio files, SoundFonts) are processed locally inside your web browser's memory. We do not upload, store, process, or view your personal files on our backend servers.

2. Information We Collect

While our core applications process data locally, our server infrastructure and third-party partners may collect certain technical information when you visit the site:

• Log Data: Like most websites, our servers automatically collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our site. This may include your IP address, browser type and version, the pages of our site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, and the time spent on those pages.
• Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We use cookies, web beacons, and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our website and hold certain information to improve your user experience.

3. Google AdSense and Advertising Cookies

To keep our high-performance tools and engineering resources free for the community, we use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Website. Please read this section carefully to understand how your data is used for advertising:

• Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this website or other websites.
• Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our sites and/or other sites on the Internet.
• Users may opt-out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. Alternatively, you can opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.

4. How We Use Your Information

We use the collected information for various purposes, including:

• To provide, operate, and maintain our website.
• To monitor the usage of our website and analyze technical performance.
• To detect, prevent, and address technical issues (e.g., identifying WebAssembly crash reports).
• To display relevant advertisements via Google AdSense to sustain the project.

5. Third-Party Links

Our website may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us (such as GitHub repositories or external engineering resources). If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

6. Children's Privacy

Our tools are designed for general audiences and developers. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

7. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date at the top of this policy. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.

8. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the data we hold on you, or you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please do not hesitate to contact us at via our Contact Page or by emailing us directly at hello@tristanlab.com.