Privacy Policy

Certificate Maker AI (certificatemakerai.com) is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy clarifies how our website and certificate generator operate, what minimal technical data may be exchanged during your visit, and how we safeguard your information.

Unlike traditional design portals that require mandatory sign-up, email verification, cloud asset uploads, and monthly billing memberships, Certificate Maker AI is engineered to give creators immediate access to professional certificate generation tools without surrendering personal identifiers.

To provide transparency, here is what we explicitly do not collect, process on remote servers, or store in any database:

• Recipient Names & Achievement Details: Any text typed into the certificate fields (e.g., student names, course dates, honors titles) remains exclusively within your local browser runtime.
• Custom Signatures & Badges: If you upload signature graphics, institutional logos, or custom seals, these image files are parsed locally via browser File APIs and are not transmitted to any external server.
• Credentials or Passwords: We do not offer or require user account creation, meaning no usernames, hashed passwords, or login tokens are ever recorded.
• Financial or Payment Information: Certificate generation, customization, and standard downloads are 100% free with no credit card requirement.

Our editor uses modern client-side web technologies (React, HTML5 Canvas, SVG rendering, and jsPDF) to manipulate certificate elements directly inside your browser window.

When you access our website, standard web server access logs may temporarily record general network protocol data, including:

• IP address (anonymized/truncated where feasible)
• Browser user-agent, operating system, and language preferences
• Referring URL and requested page paths
• Timestamp of access for rate limiting and denial-of-service mitigation

This information is used strictly for server health monitoring, security audits, and preventing automated bot abuse.

We minimize external dependencies. Where third-party services are integrated, they are governed by their respective privacy terms:

• Google Fonts: We load typography (such as Cinzel, Cormorant Garamond, Great Vibes, Geist) from Google Fonts CDN. Google may collect IP addresses and usage telemetry according to the Google Privacy Policy.
• Gmail Dispatch: Our "Send via Gmail" feature constructs standard client-side mailto: links or direct Gmail web client compose windows. We do not inspect, intercept, or send emails through our own mail transfer agents.
• Hosting Infrastructure: Our static pages and assets are delivered via enterprise-grade content delivery networks with edge SSL/TLS encryption.

All traffic between your browser and Certificate Maker AI is encrypted in transit using industry-standard TLS (Transport Layer Security) over HTTPS. Because we do not store sensitive personal information or certificate files on our servers, the risk of centralized data breaches exposing recipient names is structurally eliminated.

Depending on your location, you may possess statutory rights under privacy frameworks such as the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) or the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), including:

• Right to Know / Access: You can inquire what personal data is held about you. Because we do not maintain accounts or certificate records, we store no personal dossiers.
• Right to Deletion: You can erase any local drafts by clearing your browser cache and cookies.
• Do Not Sell My Personal Information: We do not sell, rent, monetize, or broker personal information to data aggregators or advertising networks.

Certificate Maker AI is frequently used by K-12 teachers, academic tutors, and parents to award student milestones. We comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Because our editor requires no student accounts, collects no underage identifiers, and stores no student records on remote servers, educational institutions can safely utilize our generator in classroom environments.

We may periodically update this Privacy Policy to reflect platform enhancements, new feature releases, or statutory updates. When modifications occur, the "Last Updated" timestamp at the top of this document will be refreshed accordingly. Continued use of our website constitutes your acceptance of the updated policy.