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Privacy

3D Asset Server has no accounts, no sign-up, no advertising and no tracking cookies. This page explains exactly what the public service at https://3d.shep.bot records and why.

What the service records

  • Search events. For each search the server logs the search text, the asset-type filters, the number of results, which interface was used (website, API or MCP) and a coarse client family derived from the User-Agent (for example “browser”, “curl” or “claude-code”). It does not log your IP address, API key or cookies with these events. They are used to improve ranking and to find searches that return nothing, and are deleted after 14 days.
  • Aggregate metrics. Counters such as searches per minute, downloads per source, page views per page and per-source error rates. They contain no search text and no personal data, and are kept for 10 days. Their totals are public on the usage statistics page.
  • Request logs. Like any website, the hosting infrastructure keeps standard request logs (which include IP addresses and User-Agents) for security and operations. Logs collected centrally are deleted after 14 days.
  • Rate limiting. To keep the free service fair, the server counts requests per client IP address in memory for one minute at a time. These counters are never written to disk.

What stays in your browser

The website stores two optional preferences in your browser’s local storage: your light/dark theme choice and, only on self-hosted servers that require one, the API key you entered. Neither is sent anywhere except the API key, which goes back to the same server.

Third parties you contact

  • Thumbnails load directly from the asset sites (Poly Haven, ambientCG, BlenderKit and others), so those sites see your IP address when you browse results.
  • Downloads of single files redirect to the source’s CDN. Multi-file zips are assembled by this server from the source files.
  • Links to source pages take you to those sites, which have their own privacy policies.

Your choices and contact

Because no account or profile exists, there is nothing to export or delete for an individual visitor beyond the time-limited logs above. Questions or requests: see Contact. This policy may change as the service evolves; the current version always lives at https://3d.shep.bot/privacy.