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What we do and do not collect

This page separates two different things that are often confused: the contents of your BIM file, and the ordinary web traffic data any website receives.

Your BIM file contents

For the client-side tools on this site:

  • The file you select stays on your device.
  • Model contents are parsed locally in your browser.
  • Model contents are not intentionally transmitted to FreeBIMTools servers, and there is no upload endpoint for them.
  • Nothing derived from the model is stored on our side: no element data, no property values, no GlobalIds, no filenames, no project names.

Some tools may store parsed data temporarily in your browser (IndexedDB) so that a model does not have to be re-read between steps. That storage is on your machine, and a Clear local files control is provided wherever it is used.

Website access data

We are not going to claim that we collect absolutely nothing, because that would not be true of any website. Hosting and CDN infrastructure processes ordinary web request data in order to serve pages at all. That typically includes an IP address, the page requested, a timestamp, a user agent string, and a referrer.

Where product analytics are used, they are limited to anonymous, bucketed events that tell us which tools people open and whether they finished successfully. An event looks like the tool name, a file size range, and a duration range. It never carries file names, project names, GlobalIds, or any BIM property value.

Error reporting

When a tool fails we want to know the class of failure, for example a WebAssembly initialisation failure, a parser crash, a memory limit, an unsupported schema, or an export error. Model data is never attached to an error report.

The distinction that matters

Website access telemetry is data about a browser visiting a web page. BIM file contents are data about your project. The first is unavoidable for any site on the internet. The second never leaves your computer, and that is the entire point of building the tools this way.

Cookies and accounts

There are no user accounts and no login. Your theme preference is stored in your browser's local storage so the site does not flash the wrong colours on your next visit. It is not sent anywhere.

Questions

If something here is unclear or you think it is inaccurate, please get in touch. This page is meant to be checkable, not reassuring.