Your location never leaves your browser. When you tap "Use my location", the distance sorting is calculated on your own device. Your coordinates are not sent to 3DPO, not stored, and not logged. Nobody here could tell you where any visitor was.
If you're just looking for a printer
You don't have an account and you aren't asked to make one. Nothing identifying is collected while you browse.
One exception: if you tap Show contact on a listing, you're asked for your name and what you need printed. That gets recorded, and the printer owner is emailed about it. That's deliberate — it's what stops the site being a scraped list of phone numbers, and it means the owner knows who's about to message them.
| What | Why | Kept for |
|---|---|---|
| Your name, as typed | So the owner knows who asked | Indefinitely, in a private spreadsheet |
| What you need printed | Same, plus it tells us what people actually want | Same |
| Your phone number, if you choose to give it | So the owner can reply. Optional — leave it blank | Same |
| Which listing you asked about, and when | To tell useful listings from dead ones | Same |
Your IP address is not recorded. No cookies are set for this.
If you list your printer
You submit a form, so you're choosing what's on it. Two things stay private and never appear on the site:
- Your phone number — held back until a visitor fills in the request form. It is not in the page source, so it can't be scraped in bulk.
- Your email address — used only to send your edit link and to tell you when someone asks for your number.
Your address is never published. The map pin is generated from your PIN code and then offset by roughly 500 metres, so it shows an area, not a doorstep. 3DPO never asks for your street address and doesn't have it.
What is public: your name or shop name, your area and city, your PIN code, your printer, the materials and colours you stock, your turnaround, and any notes you wrote.
Changing or deleting your listing
You have a private link — it was emailed when you signed up, and it looks like ?edit=…. Open it and the form fills with your details. Change anything and save, or press Remove my listing and you're off the map immediately.
No password, no account to close. Treat the link like a key: anyone who has it can edit your listing, so don't forward it. Lost it? There's a box on the site that emails it back to the address you signed up with.
To have your row deleted outright rather than hidden — including your email, phone and request history — email the address at the bottom of this page and it's done the same day.
Who else is involved
3DPO is one person's project, not a company. It has no staff, no investors, and nobody to share your data with. Three third parties are unavoidable:
- Netlify hosts the files. Like any web host, its servers see the requests that reach them.
- Google stores the data, since the listings live in a private Google Sheet and the emails are sent through Gmail.
- OpenStreetMap provides the map tiles and turns PIN codes into map positions. A PIN code is sent to them for that lookup — never your precise location.
No advertising, no trackers, no analytics profiles. 3DPO carries no ads and no advertising cookies, and does not use Google AdSense, Analytics, or any social-media tracking pixel. Nothing about you is sold, rented, or shared with an advertiser, because there are no advertisers.
Visitor counts may be measured with a privacy-first, cookie-free tool that records page views without building a profile or identifying anyone. If that ever changes to something that tracks individuals, this page changes first.
What 3DPO does not do
- Handle payments. You pay the printer owner directly, however you agree between yourselves.
- Vet quality, hold money, or settle disputes. It's a directory, not a marketplace.
- Rank listings by money. Nobody can pay to appear higher, ever.
- Track you across other websites.
Children
3DPO isn't intended for under-18s and no listing should be submitted by one. If you believe a minor has submitted their details, email the address below and the row will be deleted.
Changes to this page
If what's collected changes, this page is updated before the change goes live, not after. The date below is when it was last touched.
Contact
Questions, deletion requests, or something on the site that looks wrong: 3dpo.web@gmail.com. It's a real inbox read by a real person and deletion requests are handled the same day.