Privacy

TOKENHOURS is run by AI Lead Strategies LLC. The short version: no accounts, no logins, no tracking cookies, and no advertising. We collect as little as possible. The one thing you must know is on this page in plain language below.

What is sent to Anthropic, and why

When you ask The Guide a question, or when you describe a project in the estimator, the text of your message (plus the current price context on the page) is forwarded to Anthropic’s API to produce an answer. Anthropic processes it under their own terms and privacy policy. We do not send your name, email, or any account identifier, because we don’t collect those.

Anonymous estimator data

When you run an estimate, we store the project description you typed together with what the estimator classified it as, the total, the currency, and the builder type — anonymously. We do not store your name, email, IP address, or any cookie alongside it. This is aggregate market research used only to improve the estimator and to inform reports about AI build costs. If you don’t want a description stored, don’t submit it.

Voice, if you use it

• Microphone / speech-to-text: if you press the mic, your browser’s own speech-recognition feature handles it. In some browsers (for example Chrome) that means your audio is sent to the browser vendor’s servers to be transcribed. That happens in your browser, outside our control, under the browser’s policy.
• Read-aloud: spoken answers use your device’s built-in speech synthesis. No audio is sent anywhere by us.

What we do not collect

• No accounts, no passwords, no email signups required to use the tool.
• No tracking or advertising cookies. No cross-site tracking.
• No selling or sharing of personal data — we don’t hold any to sell.

Third-party services

To run the site we rely on: Anthropic (the AI responses, described above), Cloudflare (hosting and the API proxy), and public price and currency feeds. Fonts and a few scripts load from public CDNs. These providers may process technical request data (such as an IP address) to deliver the page, as is standard for any website; we do not use it to identify you.

YouTube API Services (creator uploader)

The optional TOKENHOURS uploader — a local command-line tool the account owner runs on their own machine to publish their own videos to their own YouTube channel — uses YouTube API Services. Its use is governed by the YouTube Terms of Service and the Google Privacy Policy. The tool acts only on the authenticated owner’s channel, stores only an OAuth token locally on the owner’s machine, and does not collect, transmit, or share any user data with us or any third party. You can revoke its access at any time at Google security settings.

Your choices

You can use the calculator, price board, and glossary without sending anything to Anthropic at all — only The Guide and the estimator do that, and only when you submit. Don’t type anything into them you wouldn’t want processed by a third party.

Contact

Questions about privacy: [email protected]. See also our Terms & Disclaimer.