We’ll keep this short, because there honestly isn’t much to tell — and that’s the point. Critico was built to respect your work and your privacy. Here’s exactly what happens to your artwork and your data.
We Don’t Store Your Artwork
When you upload an image, it’s sent for analysis, the critique comes back to your browser, and the image is discarded. We don’t keep it. Critico has no gallery, no history, no archive of what you’ve uploaded. Once you leave or refresh the page, your artwork is gone from our side. If you want to keep the critique or the annotated image, use the download button — that’s the only copy that persists, and it’s on your device, not ours.
We Don’t Make You Sign Up
There are no accounts and no logins on Critico. We don’t ask for your name, your email, or anything else to identify you. You can use the entire site without telling us who you are.
What We Do Process (and Why)
To make the tool work and keep it sustainable, a small amount of technical information is involved:
- Your image, briefly, for analysis. Your uploaded image is sent to the third-party AI service that powers the critique, analyzed, and returned. It isn’t saved on our servers afterward.
- A rate-limit check. So the free tool stays available and affordable, we limit how many critiques can come from one place in a day. To do this we create a one-way, anonymized fingerprint derived from your network address — we never store your actual address, and the fingerprint can’t be turned back into it or into your identity. It exists only to count requests and resets automatically.
- Analytics, only with your consent. With your permission, we use Google Analytics to understand aggregate, anonymous usage — how many people visit, which pages are popular, that sort of thing. Google Analytics sets cookies to do this. If you decline, no analytics cookies are set and Google Analytics does not run at all.
- Ads. Critico is supported by advertising. Ad providers may use cookies to show relevant ads; you’ll be asked about cookies via the consent banner, and you can decline.
The AI Doesn’t Train on Your Artwork
The third-party AI service that analyzes your image operates under commercial terms that, by default, do not use submitted images or the resulting critiques to train AI models. Your artwork is used to generate your critique and nothing more. (The provider may briefly process content to operate the service and screen for abuse, but it isn’t fed into model training.)
We Don’t Sell Your Information
We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information — full stop. We have very little to begin with, and what little there is exists only to run the site.
Cookies
Critico uses cookies for analytics (described above) and, when advertising is live, for ads. When you first visit, a banner asks whether to accept or decline non-essential cookies — and nothing non-essential runs until you choose Accept. Decline, and none of it loads. You can change your mind anytime using the “Cookie settings” link in the footer, or through your browser settings.
If You’re in the EU/UK
If you’re in the European Economic Area or the UK, you have rights under the GDPR — including the rights to access, correct, or delete personal data, and to object to certain processing. Because Critico doesn’t require an account and doesn’t store your artwork or build a profile of you, there’s very little personal data for these rights to apply to. If you have a question or a request, contact us at contact@critico.com and we’ll help. You can withdraw your cookie consent at any time via the “Cookie settings” link in the footer.
Children
Critico isn’t directed at children under 13 (or the equivalent minimum age in your country), and we don’t knowingly collect personal information from them.
Changes to This Policy
If we add features in the future that change how data is handled, we’ll update this policy and the “Last updated” date above before those features go live.
Contact
Questions about your privacy? Reach us at contact@critico.com.