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Privacy Policy

Last updated: August 17, 2026

CopySnips is a free library of Power Apps YAML components, built and run by one developer (see About). This page explains, in plain language, what data the site actually collects and why. It's written to match how the codebase really works, not copied from somewhere else, but it's not a substitute for professional legal advice if you need something formally reviewed.

What we collect

Account information

Browsing and copying components needs no account. Creating one (only required to contribute) uses Firebase Authentication: your email address and a password Firebase handles directly, we never see or store the raw password ourselves. If you set a display name or profile photo, those are stored too.

Contribution and feedback submissions

The Contribute button collects whatever you type in: your name, email, the type of submission, your message, and optionally a YAML snippet. This goes straight into our database for review, nowhere else.

Usage analytics

We use Vercel Analytics for aggregate, privacy-respecting traffic numbers (which pages get visited, roughly how much) — the standard kind of web analytics, not individual tracking profiles.

Cookies

Three cookies exist on this site, and that's the complete list:

__session

Set when you log in, so Firebase knows you're signed in on your next visit. Deleted when you log out.

cs_vid

A random, anonymous ID with no personal information in it, used only so the same browser copying the same component twice in a day doesn't get counted twice in our public component-download stats.

copysnips_admin_bypass

Only ever set for the site's admin account after verifying admin status server-side. If you're not an admin, you'll never see this one.

How it's used

Account data authenticates you and lets you contribute. Submission data gets reviewed by an actual person, not routed into an automated pipeline. Analytics inform what to build next. None of it is sold, and none of it goes to advertisers, because this site doesn't run ads.

Who else touches it

Two infrastructure providers, both handling the data on our behalf, not their own:

  • Firebase / Google Cloud — hosts the database (Firestore) and handles authentication.
  • Vercel — hosts the site and provides the aggregate analytics mentioned above.

Keeping your data secure

Database access is locked down by rule, not by convention: components, authors, and admin-only data all have explicit read/write rules, and anything sensitive (like per-component download counts) is written exclusively through server-side code an ordinary visitor's browser can never reach directly.

Deleting your data

Email contact@copysnips.com and ask. Account and submission data tied to your email gets removed; published components you've contributed can stay up (with attribution removed on request) since other people are actively using them, unless you'd rather they come down too — just say so.

Children's privacy

CopySnips isn't directed at children, and we don't knowingly collect data from anyone under 13.

Changes to this policy

If what the site actually collects changes, this page gets updated to match, and the date at the top moves. No separate notice is sent since there's no mailing list to send it to.

Contact

Questions about any of this: contact@copysnips.com.