Privacy

Last updated 23 September 2026

The short version: we keep your email address so you can sign in, your pictures so you can find them again, and a record of what you have downloaded so the plan can be counted. We do not sell any of it, we do not advertise, and there are no tracking cookies on this site.

What we keep, and why

• Your email address — it is your account. Without it you cannot sign in and we cannot send you a receipt.
• Sign‑in codes — stored scrambled, never in readable form, and each one dies the moment it is used or after a few minutes.
• The pictures you upload and the vectors made from them — so the result is waiting for you when you come back.
• A record of your conversions and downloads — which picture, when. This is how the monthly count works, and how a picture you have already paid for stays free.
• A payment record — an identifier from Stripe, your plan, and when the month resets. We never see your card number; it goes straight to Stripe.
• Ordinary server logs — including the IP address a request came from, kept briefly to keep the service running and to stop abuse.

We ask for nothing else. No name, no address, no phone number, no date of birth.

Why we are allowed to

Most of it is because you asked us to do something and we cannot do it otherwise — that is the contract between us. The logs, and keeping the service from being abused, are our legitimate interest in running a working service. We keep payment records because tax law says we must.

How long we keep it

• Conversions made without an account: about a day.
• Conversions on an account: seven days, then deleted.
• Your account and its download history: for as long as you have an account.
• Payment and invoice records: six years, because tax law requires it.
• Server logs: about a month.

Who else touches it

Only the companies we need to run the service, and only for that purpose:

• Stripe — payments, subscriptions and receipts.
• Resend — sending your sign‑in codes.
• OVH — the server itself, which is in the European Union.

Nobody else. We do not sell, rent or share your data, and there is no advertising network, no analytics profile, and no data broker in this list.

Cookies

Three small ones, all doing a job you asked for: one that keeps you signed in, one that remembers whether you chose the light or the dark page, and one used while the site is still behind its door. None of them follow you anywhere, and none of them are used for advertising — which is why this site does not throw a cookie banner at you.

What you can ask for

You can ask us for a copy of everything we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it and close your account. Email hello@hectorthevector.com and we will do it, normally within a few days and always within a month. It is free.

If you think we have handled your data badly, please tell us first so we can fix it. You also have the right to complain to the UK's Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.