What is an animasci?

Animascis are text animations, like short films made of text. You can create animascis on this web site, use them as animated GIFs and share them on social media.

Description of services

animasci.com is a non commercial web service for creating and sharing text and ASCII animations on the web. There are no charges and no warranties.

Data privacy

Here is the exhaustive list of data we receive and store about site users:

  • Animations created when logged in with a social media account either privately or publicly are stored indefinitely.
  • When user accept the cookie disclaimer banner, that choice is stored in the cb-enabled cookie.
  • User signed in with a social medium account are recorded with a handle to the social medium account.
  • Interactions with the website are stored for 24 hours. After that they are aggregated into anonymous usage statistics and deleted.
  • Published animascis are publicly accessible on the web. We neither have control over- nor do we record any data of who reads animascis and is done with them.

Processing of social media data

Processing of data from social media accounts is used solely for the purpose of prohibiting malicious users from publishing spam and/or abusive content on the web site. We do not store or share with other parties any personally identifying user information obtained by social media platforms past the web session. The only exception to this practice are users whose social media handles are stored in a black list after violating animasci's terms of services.

Necessary clarifications

  • We don't get to see your IP address as it's anonymized by the infrastructure provider powering this website
  • However, the website's infrastructure provider Cloudflare uses cookies for their own purposes which they don't share with us. Please refer to the Cloudflare privacy policy for details.
  • You have a right to object to the use of your data - in that case, please write an email to the address listed in the "Contact" section

Ownership of animascis

  • animascis which you create privately belong to you, only you and nobody else - not even me
  • when you publish an animasci on this website, you do this under the Creative Commons CC BY 3.0 license which means that other people and organisations are allowed to use your animascis provided they credit you for it.
  • animascis created anonymously (without logging in) may be deleted
  • animascis created anonymously (without logging in) may be published if we think they are great and not of personal/private content.

Data deletion

You can always delete your entire account and all data associated with it by navigating to "My Profile" and clicking on "delete account".

Changes in terms or service

  • The terms and conditions explained here may change in the future. Since we don't store your emails, we have no way of notifying you - so keep checking this page if you care about such things.

Contact

This is a private site run by George Georgovassilis.

  • Email me at g.georgovassilis__nospam__@gmail.com
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Credits

Icons made by Freepik from www.flaticon.com is licensed by CC 3.0 BY