Privacy

This page describes what actually happens, not what would be convenient to claim. Everything below is a statement about the running code and is only true while that code stays as it is.

What this site never sees

Your downloads. Files travel from Snapchat's servers to your browser directly. They do not pass through this server, are not copied here, and are not cached here. The single exception is a profile's avatar and cover image, which Snapchat serves in a way that browsers refuse to fetch cross-origin; those two are relayed through this server as a stream and are never written to disk.

Any account of yours. There is no sign-up, no login and no user record.

What the site stores

Nothing in your browser. No cookies are set. No local storage, no session storage, no fingerprinting. Your selections live in the page's memory and are gone when you close the tab.

A short in-memory cache on the server. When a profile is read, the result is held for twenty minutes so a second visitor asking for the same account does not cost Snapchat another request. It holds public profile data only, never anything about you, is never written to disk, and is lost whenever the service restarts.

What the web server logs

The web server in front of this site keeps a standard access log: the requesting IP address, timestamp, the path requested, response code, and the browser's user-agent string. Those logs rotate daily and are kept for fourteen days. The application's own logging is set to warnings only, so ordinary requests are not written by it at all.

An access log entry records that a profile was looked up. If that matters to you, this is the honest disclosure rather than a claim of zero logs, which almost no site serving over HTTP can truthfully make.

Analytics and advertising

At the time of writing there are no analytics and no advertising on this site. No tracking pixel, no ad network, no embedded font or script from another company's domain: every font and every script this site writes is served from snapstorysaver.com. If that changes, this page changes first.

What sits in front of this site

Nothing. Requests to snapstorysaver.com reach this server directly — there is no CDN, no reverse proxy and no third-party edge network between your browser and the machine that answers. That is unusual enough to be worth stating: most sites of this kind sit behind a proxy that sees every request before the origin does.

The practical consequence for you is that the only parties who see your request are your own network provider and this server, whose logging is described above.

Your downloads go somewhere else entirely

Worth repeating here because it is the point of the whole design: the files themselves never come from this server. Your browser fetches each one from Snapchat's own CDN, so your download does not appear in this server's logs at all — only the profile lookup that preceded it does.

Contact

Questions about any of the above: abuse@snapstorysaver.com.