Privacy policy

Who is responsible

This website is run by SimplySolid3D, based in the Netherlands. For any privacy question, email hello@skipthecad.com.

What we collect

SkipTheCAD is a static website that works without an account. The only personal data we can receive through the site is what you choose to give us: your email address for an account or the newsletter, and what you type into the submission form (see below).

We count page views ourselves. When a page is shown, your browser sends us a short anonymous note: the page, the website you came from (only its name, such as reddit.com), the campaign name in the link if there is one (such as "newsletter"), and whether you use a phone, tablet or computer. We store it with the time and your country as Cloudflare sees it. There is no cookie, IP address, browser detail or ID in it, so page views cannot be traced back to you or linked to each other. To keep bots out, our server briefly looks at the browser name and at how many pages one address requests within an hour; that check happens in memory and is never stored. We only look at totals, and each page view is deleted automatically after about 13 months.

We also use Cloudflare Web Analytics to count page views. It does not use cookies, does not store your IP address and does not follow you across websites. We only see totals such as how many people visited a page.

We count clicks on links to other websites, so we can see which links are useful. When you click one, your browser sends us a short anonymous note: the page you were on, the site and page the link goes to (without any tracking codes) and where on our page the link was. We store it with the time and your country as Cloudflare sees it. There is no cookie, IP address, browser detail or ID in it, so a click cannot be traced back to you. We only look at totals, and each click is deleted automatically after about 13 months.

Our hosting provider (Cloudflare) processes technical data such as IP addresses for a short time to deliver pages and protect the site against attacks. That is standard for every website and we do not get access to it.

Cookies and local storage

We set no cookies unless you sign in to an account. Then we set two, both needed for the account to work and never used for tracking or ads: stc_session, a random code that keeps you signed in (for 90 days, or until you sign out), and stc_in, which only tells our pages that you are signed in, so the menu can say "Account" instead of "Sign in". Because they are strictly necessary, we don't ask for consent for them.

If you switch between light and dark mode, your choice is saved in your own browser's local storage so the site remembers it. If you press Save or a star before signing in, your browser remembers that choice for up to an hour, so it can be applied once you are signed in. The admin dashboard remembers its chosen period the same way, and a browser that opened it stops counting its own page views. None of this leaves your device.

Fonts

Our fonts are hosted on our own domain, so loading them does not contact Google or any other font service.

Links to other websites

When you click a link to a generator, a shop or Amazon, you leave SkipTheCAD. That website has its own privacy policy. Affiliate links may let the shop know you came from us, usually through a cookie that the shop sets on its own site. We never receive your personal data from those shops, only a report of the total sales we referred.

Accounts

An account is optional: every page and every generator link works without one. To sign in, you enter your email address and we email you a link through Resend, our mail delivery service. The link works once and for 15 minutes. There are no passwords.

For an account we store your email address, the date you created it, whether you want the newsletter, the generators you saved to your toolbox, the ratings and reviews you gave, the reviews you marked as helpful or reported, the photos you added, and which of your submissions you sent while signed in. Sign-in links and sessions are stored only as unreadable fingerprints (hashes) and deleted after they expire.

A rating without a review shows only in the average and the count of a tool. A review is public: it shows its text, your stars, the month you joined and the date, never your name or email address. Reviews that several readers report are hidden until we have looked at them. You can change or remove your rating and review at any time.

Photos of your prints are public once we have approved them, with your caption and never with your name or email address. Your browser shrinks each photo and saves it again before it is sent, which removes hidden details such as the camera and the place it was taken. Until we approve it, only you and we can see it; a photo we do not accept is deleted at once, and we email you the reason, which you also see on your account page. You can remove your photos on the tool page or on your account page. We delete a removed photo at once; copies that browsers and our hosting provider keep for speed expire within an hour.

You can delete your account yourself on your account page. That deletes your address, toolbox, ratings, reviews, photos and sessions at once and takes you off the newsletter. Generators you submitted stay listed, no longer linked to you.

The newsletter

When you sign up for the newsletter, we send one email with a confirmation link to the address you entered. We do not store the address until you click that link. Once you confirm, your address (and the page where you signed up) is added to our mailing list at Resend, the service that sends the newsletter. Only if Resend cannot be reached at that moment do we keep it briefly in our own database until it can be added.

With an account you can also turn the newsletter on when you first sign in, or on your account page. The sign-in link has already confirmed your address, so we add it to the list right away, without a separate confirmation email.

We use your address only to send the SkipTheCAD newsletter, about every two weeks. Every newsletter has an unsubscribe link; after you use it you get no more newsletters. You can also email us to have your address removed completely. We never sell or share it.

The submission form and your email to us

When you send the submission form, we store what you typed (the tool's name, link, category, price and your notes, plus your email address only if you fill it in) with the time. We do not store your IP address or browser details with it. The submission is also sent to our own inbox by email through Resend, a mail delivery service. We use it only to review the tool and, if you left an address, to reply. Stored submissions are deleted automatically after a year, and we never share them.

If you email us directly, we use your message only to reply and to review the tool. We delete it when it is no longer needed, and never share it.

The Claude connector

If you add the SkipTheCAD connector to Claude, Claude sends our server the search words and filters it chose for your question, or the name of a tool. We use them only to answer that one request and store nothing: no log of what was asked, no account, no cookie and no IP address. We cannot see your conversation or who you are. Links in the answers carry utm_source=claude, so our page view counter can tell how many visits came through the connector.

Your rights

Under the GDPR you can ask what data we hold about you, and ask us to correct or delete it. Because we hold very little, most requests are answered quickly. Account holders can see and delete their own data on the account page. You can also complain to your data protection authority; in the Netherlands that is the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens.

Last updated 2026-10-16