CLIENT-FIRST ARCHITECTURE · ZERO CLOUD GPU LEAKAGE

Privacy Policy

Shader Studio is engineered with a strict client-first philosophy. Your procedural shaders, texture media, mathematical pipelines, and AI credentials run locally on your device hardware.

Effective Date: 2026

Architecture: 100% In-Browser WebGL2

Inquiries: [email protected]

100% Client-Side Compute

Procedural WebGL2 math and animation loops render directly on your local GPU. Shaders never leave your device without explicit export.

Zero Texture Telemetry

Imported images, webcam feeds, and video layers are bound strictly to in-memory WebGL textures. No media frames are uploaded or saved remotely.

BYOK Direct Connect

Your OpenRouter API keys reside strictly inside your browser's encrypted local storage. Requests dispatch directly to OpenRouter without proxy interception.

Full IP Ownership

You retain 100% copyright and intellectual property rights to your custom GLSL shader code, preset values, and visual recordings.

100% Client-Side Shader Execution

Hardware Execution

Local GPU Rendering: Shader Studio processes procedural WebGL2 shaders, math pipelines, raymarching algorithms, and real-time animation loops directly on your local GPU via your browser.

Your customized parameters, procedural fader values, color palettes, and uniform variables remain confined to your device's memory. At no point in the standard creative workflow are your active shader programs or mathematical configurations transmitted to our servers or processed by third-party cloud compute providers.

Offline Capable Architecture: Once assets are cached, our runtime engine compiles GLSL directly via the browser's native WebGL2 context, guaranteeing zero latency and maximum code privacy.

Media Mode and Local Texture Privacy

Texture Memory

When utilizing Media Mode to import custom imagery, video clips, or live device camera feeds into shader uniforms:

In-Memory Binding: All video frame decoding, bitmap texture binding, and post-processing occurs strictly in-browser using HTML5 Canvas and WebGL textures (`gl.texImage2D`).
Zero Server Storage: No camera streams, imported images, video frames, or derived depth buffers are ever uploaded, recorded, or archived on remote servers.
Immediate Memory Release: When you swap media files or close the studio session, all GPU texture handles and memory allocations are released by the browser garbage collector.

Bring-Your-Own-Key (BYOK) AI Privacy

Direct Endpoints

Shader Studio offers frontier AI shader synthesis via a Bring-Your-Own-Key (BYOK) architectural model:

When you provide an OpenRouter API key to synthesize or edit shaders using foundation models:

Local Storage Encryption: Your API key is stored exclusively within your browser's private local storage space (`localStorage`).
Direct Endpoints: API generation requests travel directly from your client browser to the official OpenRouter API endpoints (`https://openrouter.ai/api/v1`).
No Intermediary Proxies: We do not operate server-side proxy relays that intercept, log, analyze, or train machine learning models on your prompts or GLSL source code.

Accounts and Cloud Synchronization

Authentication

Using Shader Studio does not require creating an account for local procedural experimentation.

If you choose to sign in using Google Authentication or email:

Synchronized Presets: Cross-device cloud synchronization enables saving custom shader presets across devices (1 device on Free Tier, up to 3 devices on Pro Tier).
Stored Metadata: We store only your basic authentication profile (UID, email address, display name) and user-saved preset configurations in our secure Firebase database.
Strict Access Rules: Your cloud presets are governed by strict database security rules that prevent unauthorized third-party read or write access.

Payment and Billing Processing

PCI Compliance

All subscription payments, recurring renewals, invoicing, and tax calculations for Shader Studio Pro are processed securely by our Merchant of Record, Dodo Payments.

Financial Data Isolation: Shader Studio never receives, processes, or stores your credit card numbers, bank routing codes, or billing CVV numbers. Payment sessions are handled through encrypted Dodo Payments checkout portals complying with PCI-DSS Level 1 security standards.

Minimal Telemetry and Analytics

Zero Invasive Tracking

We fundamentally reject third-party behavioral profiling and invasive ad-tracking networks:

No Tracking Pixels: We do not deploy cross-site tracking pixels, fingerprinting scripts, or third-party advertising cookies.
Diagnostic Diagnostics Only: To ensure reliable shader compilation across diverse GPUs (Apple Silicon, NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, Qualcomm Adreno, ARM Mali), we collect minimal, anonymized operational metrics:
- WebGL2 context initialization success / loss events
- GPU driver vendor strings (for shader compatibility workarounds)
- Export format completion telemetry (HTML, Lite JS, WebM, MP4)

Data Ownership, Export and Deletion

User Rights

Complete Creative Autonomy: All procedural presets, mathematical transformations, GLSL vertex/fragment code, exported bundles (HTML, Lite JS, Studio JS), and captured video/still frames belong exclusively to you.

Local Data Erasure: You can completely clear all locally stored presets, preferences, and BYOK API keys at any time via your browser settings or directly inside the Studio menu by clicking Clear Local Storage.

Account & Preset Deletion: If you wish to delete your cloud profile and synchronized presets, send an email request to [email protected]. All associated cloud records will be permanently expunged within 30 business days.

Contact Us & Legal Jurisdiction

Casberry India

Shader Studio is developed and maintained by Casberry. If you have any inquiries, feedback, or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, our data practices, or security audits, please contact our team:

Casberry Privacy & Legal Office

Direct communication channel for data rights, security audits, and regulatory inquiries.

[email protected]