What Vector Designer for Windows sends, when, and to whom. The short version: the application works entirely on your computer; it talks to the network only for four things you can see, and none of them needs an account. There is no advertising, no analytics SDK and no tracker — in the app or on this site.
Effective 2 September 2026 · applies to SVG Editor - Vector Designer for Windows, version 26.2 and later, downloaded from this site or installed from the Microsoft Store.
Every network connection the application can make, and what triggers it. Nothing else leaves your computer.
| Feature | When | What is sent | To whom |
|---|---|---|---|
| Send Feedback | Only when you press Send | Your text, the screenshots you attach, a technical context (app version, Windows version, host name, locale, keyboard layout, screen size) | Our feedback server, svgfeedback.onrender.com (hosted on Render) |
| Crash report | At the launch after a crash, if the option is on | The crash text: exception, call stack, the last window messages, the same technical context. No document content | The same feedback server |
| AI Console | Only when you press Send in the console | Your prompt, the images you attached, the SVG of the document open in the console (with the images placed in it), a random device id | Our AI proxy on the same server, which forwards the prompt to the AI provider it is configured with (OpenAI, Anthropic or Google). With your own key: directly to that provider |
| Check for Updates | Help › Check for Updates…, and once a day if you allowed it (direct-download copy only) | A plain GET of the update feed. No personal data | This website, rainbowfactory.uk |
| MCP server, scripts | — | Nothing: local only | — |
The Feedback palette (Window › Feedback, Ctrl+Alt+F, the speech-bubble button on the canvas, or Help › Send Feedback…) lets you write to us. Nothing is sent until you press Send. When you do, the application posts one report to our feedback server at https://svgfeedback.onrender.com, a service we run on Render (Render Services, Inc., USA). The report contains:
If you are offline the report is queued in %LOCALAPPDATA%\SVGEData\feedback-outbox\ on your computer and sent the next time the application starts with a connection. You can delete that folder at any time.
The host name is included so that several reports from the same machine can be read together. It is the only identifier in a feedback report; there is no account and no e-mail address unless you type one in the text.
If the application crashes, it writes a plain-text report on your computer (in C:\dumps if that folder exists or can be created, otherwise in your temporary folder). At the next launch, if Send diagnostic logs automatically is on in Edit › Options › Debug (it is on by default), that text is sent to the same feedback server as one report and the local copy is removed from the queue.
The report contains the exception type, the call stack with module names and offsets, the last window messages received, the active tool and document path if any, and the same technical context as a feedback report (version, Windows version, host name, locale, keyboard, screen). It does not contain the content of your documents. Turn the option off and nothing is sent; you can still send the latest report by hand with Send Logs Now, or open the folder with Reveal Log File.
The AI Console turns a description into editable vector artwork. It only talks to the network when you press Send. What happens depends on the engine chosen in Edit › Options › AI:
Conversations are kept locally in %LOCALAPPDATA%\SVGEData\ so that you can reopen them; they are not uploaded anywhere except as part of a request you send.
In the copy downloaded from this site, Help › Check for Updates… fetches https://www.rainbowfactory.uk/svg-editor/updates/appcast-windows.xml with a plain HTTP GET and compares the version in it with the one you have. On the second launch the application asks whether it may do this check once a day by itself; the answer is a switch in Edit › Options › General. No personal data is sent: the request carries no identifier, and we do not log who asked.
If you choose to install an update, the application downloads the new package from this site, verifies its signature, and replaces itself. In the Microsoft Store version there is no update check at all: updates come from the Store, under Microsoft’s privacy statement.
The application can act as an MCP server (svgeditor.exe --mcp-stdio) so that an AI client on your computer — Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, VS Code — can drive its drawing tools. This runs entirely on your machine: the client and the application exchange JSON messages over standard input and output and a local mailbox folder; no network connection is opened by Vector Designer. What that AI client itself sends to its own provider is governed by the client’s policy, not by this one. The Allow external control switch in Edit › Options › MCP Server turns the whole channel off.
Scripts (.jsx) run inside the application with no network access.
Uninstalling the application does not delete these; you can remove the registry key and the folder yourself.
This site is static pages. It sets no cookies of its own, runs no analytics and embeds no advertising. Fonts are loaded from Google Fonts (Google LLC), which receives your browser’s request for the font files. Links to Discord, the Mac App Store and GitHub lead to those services and their policies. Our hosting provider keeps ordinary server logs (IP address, requested page, time) for the operation of the site.
Data controller: Rainbowfactory Ltd, London, United Kingdom (the company also trades as Rainbow Factory). Registered office: 24 Fitzroy Square, London, England, W1T 6EP. Company number: 14629999. E-mail for privacy requests: support@rainbowfactory.uk. You can also reach us on Discord.
Why we process it. Feedback and crash reports are processed to fix bugs and improve the application (our legitimate interest, and your request when you press Send). AI requests are processed to provide the feature you asked for. Update checks are processed to deliver the version you asked for. Nothing is used for advertising or profiling, and nothing is sold.
How long we keep it. Feedback and crash reports are kept on our feedback server for as long as the issue they describe is open, and at most 12 months. AI requests are not stored by our proxy beyond the daily request counter, which resets every day; what the AI provider retains is described in its own policy. The update feed is a public file and records nothing.
Where. Our feedback server and AI proxy run on Render (Render Services, Inc.) in the Oregon region of the United States. AI providers are in the United States.
Your rights. Under the UK GDPR and, where it applies, the EU GDPR you can ask us what we hold about you, ask for it to be corrected or deleted, object to the processing, or complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office. Because reports carry no account and no e-mail address, a request should mention the host name and approximate date of the report so that we can find it. Write to the e-mail address above.
Children. The application is not directed at children and collects no personal data from anyone as part of normal use.
Changes. When the application gains or loses a network feature, this page changes with it, and the date at the top is updated. The changelog says which version introduced what.