starlens is a certified image-compression service operated by Stardata (Cody Lee Walker, Canada). This policy is short because we do very little with your data — and we'd rather show that than bury it.
Only the image(s) in the request you send to the compression endpoint. starlens is a model, not a proxy into your conversation — it does not receive, store, or forward your prompts or your exchange with your downstream model.
One artifact: the sealed certificate for a request. It contains SHA-256 hashes of the input and output image, their pixel dimensions, and the measured witness drift — never the pixels themselves. Its purpose is re-verification: anyone can later confirm a certificate matches an image by hash. We also keep aggregate operational counters (request counts, bytes, latency) that contain no content.
Compression runs on servers we operate at Hivelocity (South Carolina, US). Traffic is encrypted in transit (TLS); access is authenticated by API key. We use no third-party analytics, trackers, or advertising. The compression engine is open source, so the data path is auditable end-to-end.
Because we retain no image content, there is nothing to export or delete on your behalf beyond the hash-only certificates. To ask about a certificate or request its deletion, email cody@stardata.foundation.
We'll post material changes here with a new effective date.