Official Document / Regulatory Compliance — Privacy Disclosure
Regulatory / Data Protection

Privacy Policy

Effective date: January 1, 2026 — Last updated: 2026
Plain Language Summary — AI & Data

Your description is not stored. When you submit the form, your text is sent to an AI provider to generate your certificate. After that, it is discarded. No database. No record.

Your data is never used to train AI. The Bureau is a consumer of AI services, not an AI trainer. Your description is used to generate one certificate and nothing else.

This is not a therapy or wellness tool. The Bureau is a parody of bureaucratic formality. It generates a comedic document. It is not therapy, emotional support, or a health service.

No tracking. No ads. No account. No advertising cookies. No third-party trackers. No registration required. Paid access uses a license key stored only in your own browser.

1. What We Collect

When you fill out the certificate form, the following information is submitted to our AI processor:

This information is transmitted to our AI processing function (hosted on Cloudflare Pages) and then to Groq's API for certificate generation. We do not store this information in any database. It is used only to generate the certificate and is discarded after processing.

2. What We Do NOT Collect

3. Browser Storage (Your Device Only)

This site uses your browser's localStorage to store one thing on your own device only — it is never transmitted to our servers:

You can clear all locally stored data at any time by clearing your browser's site data for this domain.

4. Payments via Gumroad

If you choose to upgrade your certificate, you will be directed to Gumroad, a third-party payment processor. We do not receive or store your payment card information. After purchase, Gumroad emails you a license key. You enter this key on the site to verify your purchase — the key is then stored in your browser's localStorage as described in Section 3.

5. Third-Party Services

6. Children's Privacy

This website is not directed at children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

7. Data Retention

We do not store your certificate submissions server-side. The only persistent data is stored in your own browser's localStorage as described in Section 3 and is never transmitted to us.

8. Your Rights

Since we do not collect or store personal information server-side, there is no personal data held by us to access, correct, or delete. For data collected by third-party services, refer to their respective privacy policies.

9. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The effective date at the top of this page reflects the most recent revision. Continued use constitutes acceptance.

10. Contact

Questions about this Privacy Policy: hello@bureauofminorsufferings.com

The Bureau of Minor Sufferings is not a real government agency and has no government data-handling obligations. That said, we genuinely respect your privacy.