Privacy
PorchLM is a personal, non-commercial hobby project. This page is written in plain language and is not legal advice.
Short version: there are no accounts, no tracking, no analytics, and no third parties. Your conversations stay in your own browser.
Conversations
Chats are saved in your browser's localStorage — on your device, not on the server. They persist until you delete a conversation or clear your browser data.
Because they're stored per-browser, chats don't follow you between devices, and anyone else using the same browser profile on the same computer can see them.
What the server does with your messages
When you send a message, its text is sent to this server so the model can generate a reply. It is held in memory only for as long as that takes, and is not written to disk or retained afterwards.
Nothing is sent to any outside service. The model runs on this machine.
Server logs
Like any web server, this one may log basic request metadata — IP address, timestamp, requested path, user agent — along with model load and error events. These are ordinary operational logs kept on the machine itself, used only for keeping the site running.
What there isn't
- No accounts, sign-ups, or passwords
- No cookies used for tracking
- No analytics or telemetry
- No advertising
- No third-party scripts that receive your data
Fonts are loaded from Google Fonts, which means your browser makes a request to Google's servers for the font files. That's the only external request the site makes.
No login
This site has no authentication. If it's reachable by others on your network, they can use it and start their own conversations. They can't read chats stored in your browser, but treat anything you type as potentially visible — and don't enter passwords or sensitive personal information.
Downloads
Model files are served directly from this machine. Downloading one doesn't involve any third party and isn't tracked beyond the ordinary server log entry.
Contact
Questions about any of this, or a request to remove something, can be sent to the project author.