GearHost Instant Publish — Privacy Policy & Terms of Use

Overview

GearHost Instant Publish lets anyone — including AI assistants acting for a user — publish a website to a live, public https://<name>.gearhost.io URL in seconds, with no account. Published sites are ephemeral: automatically removed roughly 72 hours after the last update unless the user claims the site to a free GearHost account to keep it. This page explains what we collect and the terms under which the service is offered.

Privacy Policy

What is published is public

Any content you submit (HTML, files, assets) is served on a public URL and is world-readable while the site is live. Do not publish secrets, credentials, or private personal data.

Information we process

• Published content — the files you send, stored to serve your site.
• IP address — of the publishing client, used for rate-limiting, abuse prevention, and audit logging.
• Manage token — a random write credential returned to you to update or delete the site. We store only a hash where applicable.
• project_key — if you supply one to update a site across sessions, we store only a one-way hash of it, never the secret itself.
• Optional metadata — a source attribution tag and an optional notify_url webhook you provide, used to deliver lifecycle notifications and to understand which integrations are used.
• Account information — only if you claim a site or sign in from an AI app, the standard details associated with your GearHost account (name, email). Signing in from an AI app issues that app an access token limited to your own GearHost sites; you can revoke it from your account.
• Contact-form messages — only for sites kept in a GearHost account that use GearHost Forms: the fields a visitor submits, the visitor’s IP address and the time. They are stored for the site owner and emailed to the address the owner chose. Forms refuse password, card and ID-number fields.
• Site checks — when an AI app asks GearHost to check a published page, GearHost loads that page and the files it references; the results are returned to the app and not kept with any personal data.

How we use it

• To provide, operate, and secure the publishing service.
• To prevent abuse (rate limits, content scanning for phishing/malware, reputation protection of the shared domain).
• To send lifecycle notifications to a notify_url you registered (e.g. an “expiring soon” reminder).
• To measure conversion (how many published sites are claimed), in aggregate.

Service providers

We use Cloudflare for DNS and content delivery, Google Safe Browsing to screen published URLs for known phishing/malware, and SendGrid (Twilio) to deliver email such as contact-form messages and account notices. We do not sell your data, and we do not use it for advertising or profiling.

Retention

Live sites persist until removed (~72h after the last update if unclaimed, or immediately on your request via the delete/unpublish tool). Disposal records and operational logs are retained for a limited period for security and abuse-handling, then purged. Contact-form messages are kept until the site owner deletes them (a deleted message’s content is erased immediately) or the site is deleted.

Your choices

You can delete a published site at any time using your manage token (the unpublish_website tool or the REST delete). For privacy requests relating to a claimed account, contact us below.

Terms of Use

• Acceptable use — you may not publish unlawful, infringing, malicious, deceptive (phishing), or abusive content, or content you lack the rights to distribute.
• Public & ephemeral — content is public and may be removed automatically on expiry, or by us if it violates these terms or threatens the shared gearhost.io reputation.
• No warranty — the free preview service is provided “as is,” without warranties; it may change or be discontinued. Don’t rely on an unclaimed preview as permanent hosting — claim it.
• Responsibility — you (or the user on whose behalf an assistant publishes) are responsible for the content and for not including secrets.

The full Terms of Service for GearHost AI Publishing (Instant Publish, the MCP server, AI Publishing Keys and connected apps) apply in addition to this summary.

Contact

Privacy & general: support@gearhost.com · Report abuse: abuse@gearhost.com
Setup & integrations: /preview/integrations/