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Terms and data

Short and without legal fog: what this service is, what it keeps and what you should not expect from it.

What this is

A hobby project made at home: a child colours a paper sheet, takes a photo of it with a phone, and a fish carrying that drawing swims in an aquarium on the screen. The service is free; there is no advertising and no payment, and none is planned.

It is a private project, run for a family rather than offered to the public.

Provided “as is”

This is a toy, not a service you are buying. It may be unavailable, lose data, change beyond recognition or shut down entirely — without notice and without any obligation on my side. If a drawing matters to you, save it as a file: the management page shows every fish, and the picture can be downloaded with the browser.

No accounts — a code and a password

So share the link to an aquarium only with people you trust.

What is stored

Your browser additionally keeps, on your own device, the list of your aquariums and their passwords, so that you do not have to type the code every time. This is ordinary page storage (localStorage), not cookies, and it is needed for the service to work at all — which is why there is no cookie banner here. Nothing from your device goes anywhere except this server, and it is wiped together with the site data in your browser.

The aquarium itself keeps no access log: its own log only says “a fish was added to such and such aquarium”, with no addresses. A visitor's address is also held in memory for about an hour so that nobody can create a hundred aquariums in a minute — it never reaches the disk and disappears on restart.

In front of the aquarium, however, sits an ordinary web proxy, and it does what such proxies do: it writes a technical access log — time, IP address, page address, response code. That log rotates and overwrites itself, it exists only to work out what broke when something breaks, it does not feed any analytics and is not passed on to anyone.

There are no counters, no analytics and no advertising scripts on these pages. The data is not shared with anyone and is not sold.

Deletion

Fish and aquariums are deleted on the management page, with the password. Deleted items first move to a trash folder on the server — in case of a misclick — and are then erased permanently after 30 days, automatically.

If the password is lost, the aquarium's folder on the server can still be removed by hand by whoever runs it.

You are responsible for what you upload

The service is meant for children's drawings of fish. Everything you send to it is your responsibility: other people's material, anything unlawful or simply out of place does not belong there. I may remove any content and close access to any aquarium without explanation — first of all if I see the service being used for something it was not made for.

Children

This is not meant to be used on their own by children under 16: an adult creates the aquarium and decides who gets the link. A child uses it under a parent's supervision and with their consent.

The fish models

The 3D fish models are a purchased set by a third-party author; they are not part of this project's code and are distributed under their own licence, which does not allow redistributing the files.

This text may change along with the project; the latest version is the one you are reading.