Makerchip Privacy Policy

Last updated: 2026-10-21

This policy explains what information Redwood EDA, LLC ("Redwood EDA", "we", "us") collects through Makerchip and what we do with it. It covers the makerchip.com website and IDE, the servers behind them, related services we operate, and clients such as the Makerchip extension for Visual Studio Code. It is part of our Terms of Service.

Your code is not private

The code and other content you submit to Makerchip is stored without protection and may be visible to others (see section 3 of the Terms of Service). Do not put personal information in it.

What we collect

• Information you provide: your content (code, projects, files, and anything else you or tools acting for you submit), and information you give us directly, for example when you contact us, or when you create an account, sign in, or buy something, where we offer that.
• Information collected automatically: technical and usage information, such as your IP address, your browser, client, and device type, the pages, features, and services you use and when, and diagnostic and error reports. We also produce information from your content, such as compilation and simulation results.
• Cookies and similar technologies, such as local storage: to keep your session or sign-in, to remember your preferences and choices (such as accepting our terms), and for analytics. Makerchip needs some of them to work.
• Information from others: for example, from a service you use to sign in, or from an application that embeds Makerchip, such as its statement that you accepted our terms.

We may use analytics, our own or a third party's, but only to understand and improve Makerchip, not to advertise to you or to build a profile of you. Analytics may set cookies and receive the technical information above. We do not use advertising services.

Third-party plugins and content

Plugins, views, libraries, and shared designs written by others run in your IDE (see section 5 of the Terms of Service). They may send information, including your design, to other servers, under their authors' own policies. This policy does not cover them.

Editor extensions and AI

Makerchip's extensions for VS Code and compatible editors exchange information with Makerchip and with other services they rely on, and store data on your computer. They collect no telemetry. If that changes, they will respect your editor's telemetry setting.

Some features, now or in the future, use AI. The content they handle, such as your code, images, and documents, may go to an AI provider: either one you choose, such as the provider of an AI agent you use, under your agreement with it; or one we use to provide a feature, as our service provider under this policy.

How we use information

We use information to provide, maintain, secure, debug, improve, and develop Makerchip; to publish and share content as the Terms of Service allow; to communicate with you, including about Makerchip; and to meet legal obligations. We do not sell personal information.

We may use your content, and information produced from it such as compilation results, to train and evaluate AI models, ours or others', and may license or publish it for that purpose. We take reasonable steps to remove personal information first, and we do not use technical information, such as IP addresses, for training.

Who we share it with

• Contractors and service providers who help us run Makerchip, such as hosting and AI providers, only for that purpose.
• Anyone, for your content, which is not private (see above).
• Authorities and others, when the law requires it, or when needed to protect our rights or others' safety.
• A successor, if Redwood EDA or Makerchip is reorganized, merged, or sold.
• Anyone, for aggregated or de-identified information that does not identify you.

Retention

We keep information for as long as we find it useful for the purposes above. Records of anonymous use are deleted periodically. Your content may be kept indefinitely, or deleted at any time.

Security

We take reasonable steps to protect the personal information we hold. Your content, however, is not protected (see above).

Where information is processed

Makerchip's servers and providers may be in the United States or in other countries. By using Makerchip, you agree to your information being processed there.

Children

Makerchip is used in education, including by children under 13. We design it so that children can use it without giving us personal information:

• Makerchip does not ask for a name, an email address, or other contact information in order to use it.
• From users who may be children, we collect only what Makerchip needs to operate, such as IP addresses, cookie identifiers, and diagnostic information. We use it only to run, secure, and improve Makerchip, never to advertise or to build profiles.
• Children should use Makerchip with the permission of a parent, guardian, or teacher, and should keep personal information, such as their name, out of their code, which is not private (see above). We may remove personal information we find in content.
• If a child contacts us, we use their contact information only to reply, and then delete it.

Teachers and schools that direct children to use Makerchip are responsible for obtaining any parental consent the law requires.

A parent or guardian who believes their child has given us personal information can ask us to review or delete it by emailing legal@redwoodeda.com.

Your choices

You can block cookies, but parts of Makerchip may not work without them. To ask about, correct, or delete personal information we hold about you, email legal@redwoodeda.com.

Changes to this policy

We may revise this policy. The "Last updated" date above shows when it last changed.

Contact

Redwood EDA, LLC, 36 Venus Drive, Shrewsbury, MA 01545, USA. Email: legal@redwoodeda.com.