Privacy Policy

The short version

CanMyPCRunAI has no accounts and no logins. The detector reads technical hardware specifications only. Server access to your results expires after 30 minutes. Expired hardware profiles are removed by the cleanup described below. We never store your IP address. Third-party analytics and the current advertising status are described in full below.

What the detector reads

The downloadable detector collects only what is needed to judge whether a model will run:

• Operating system name, version and architecture
• CPU vendor, model and core counts
• Total and available system memory
• GPU vendor, model, VRAM capacity and available acceleration backends
• Free disk space
• Whether Ollama is installed, its version, and the names of models already pulled

It does not read your documents, photos, browser history, passwords, saved credentials or any other file. It does not transmit prompts or chat history. It installs nothing and runs only when you start it.

What the server keeps, and for how long

• Hardware profiles are stored against a temporary scan session. Server access ends 30 minutes after the scan completes. Expired profiles are deleted when an expired result is requested, when new scans trigger cleanup, or by the scheduled daily cleanup. With successful daily cleanup, physical deletion can take up to about 24 hours and 30 minutes after completion. A cleanup failure can delay removal, but does not extend access to the results.
• IP addresses are never stored. To limit abuse of the upload endpoint we store a salted one-way hash of the connecting address. The address itself cannot be recovered from it.
• A count of completed scans is kept as a single running total. It contains no per-visitor records and survives the deletion of the scans that produced it.
• Your browser keeps a copy of your own results in localStorage for 24 hours so the site can show them when you return. That copy never leaves your device and you can clear it at any time through your browser settings.

Analytics

We use Vercel Web Analytics and Vercel Speed Insights to count visits and measure page performance. These are cookie-less and do not build a profile of you or track you across other sites. We also record when three specific actions happen — the main button is clicked, a download starts, and a scan finishes. Report availability depends on our analytics plan. No identifiers are attached to those.

Homepage analytics also record whether the example model comparison and scan counter were available. These are yes/no feature values, without hardware details or scan codes.

We also use Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager, which do set cookies. These are switched off until you agree: Google Consent Mode denies analytics and advertising storage by default for every visitor, and the banner on your first visit is what turns them on. Choosing Reject leaves them off, and the scan works exactly the same either way. Your choice is stored in your own browser and is never sent to us.

To change your mind later, clear this site's data in your browser settings and the banner will ask again.

Advertising

This site does not currently show advertising. If that changes, this section will describe exactly what the advertising provider collects, and visitors in regions that require it will be asked for consent first.

Model data

Information about AI models is retrieved from the public Ollama registry and model pages. Browsing this site does not send anything about you to Ollama.

Your choices

We do not associate scans with an account. Server access to each scan expires after 30 minutes, and its temporary hardware profile is removed by the cleanup described above. You can clear your locally stored results by clearing site data in your browser. For questions about this policy, see the about page.

Changes

If this policy changes materially, the date at the top of this page will be updated.