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We looked into this and think the privacy risk posed by Google fonts is low.Google provides some more information about the and we're comfortable with their approach.What does using the Google Fonts API mean for the privacy of my users?The Google Fonts API is designed to limit the collection, storage, and use of end-user data to what is needed to serve fonts efficiently.Use of Google Fonts is unauthenticated. No cookies are sent by website visitors to the Google Fonts API. Requests to the Google Fonts API are made to resource-specific domains, such as fonts.googleapis.com or fonts.gstatic.com, so that your requests for fonts are separate from and do not contain any credentials you send to google.com while using other Google services that are authenticated, such as Gmail.In order to serve fonts quickly and efficiently with the fewest requests, responses are cached by the browser to minimize round-trips to our servers.Requests for CSS assets are cached for 1 day. This allows us to update a stylesheet to point to a new version of a font file when it’s updated, and ensures that all websites using fonts hosted by the Google Fonts API will be using the most updated version of each font within 24 hours of each release.The font files themselves are cached for one year, which cumulatively has the effect of making the entire web faster: When millions of websites all link to the same fonts, they are cached after visiting the first website and appear instantly on all other subsequently visited sites.
We do sometimes update font files to reduce their file size, increase coverage of languages, and improve the quality of their design. The result is that website visitors send very few requests to Google: We only see 1 CSS request per font family, per day, per browser.Google Fonts logs records of the CSS and the font file requests, and access to this data is kept secure.
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Aggregate usage numbers track how popular font families are, and are published on our analytics page. We use data from Google’s web crawler to detect which websites use Google fonts. This data is published and accessible in the Google Fonts BigQuery database. To learn more about the information Google collects and how it is used and secured, see Google's Privacy Policy. I hate to be this guy, but. Google hasn't made any official announcements yet regarding google-fonts and the GDPR, so things are still a bit unclear here.In the page in the google-fonts FAQ it mentions cookies etc, how securely the data is stored etc.
That is fine for US laws, however, according to the GDPR no data can be collected without the user's consent unless there's a lawful basis.At the end of the excerpts posted above there's this:To learn more about the information Google collects and how it is used and secured, see Google'sAnd in it clearly states that IPs are logged. But IPs are personal data according to the EU courts.We looked into this and think the privacy risk posed by Google fonts is low.It's not a matter of risk, it's a matter of respecting our user's privacy.