How it works

Privacy by architecture, not by promise

Most GIF services ask you to trust that they’ll behave. Vividum is built so that behaving is the only option — the servers never receive the data they’d need to track you.

The Airlock

When you pick a GIF inside an app like Tabella, your request doesn’t go straight to Vividum from your device. It passes through the app’s own server first — the Airlock — which strips anything that could identify you before it ever reaches us.

# What actually happens when a user searches User types “happy birthday” in the app App server (holds the API key, not the client) • removes the user’s IP, device ID, cookies • anonymizes the query Vividum serves matching media App re-serves the bytes to the user; origin URL discarded # Vividum only ever saw: an anonymized query from an app server. # It never saw a person.

This is the same model every CDN uses — a server-to-server proxy — with one addition: nothing about the end user is ever forwarded. The app holds the key; the user stays invisible.

Three guarantees

We don’t know who you are

No accounts required to view or send. No IP logging by default. No device fingerprinting. Nothing that ties a search to a person.

We don’t build profiles

No behavioral analytics, no “trending for you,” no cohorts sold to brands. Trending is global and anonymous, computed from counts — not from watching individuals.

We don’t sell anything but the service

Vividum earns from subscriptions and API licensing, never from data. That’s a commitment written into the Wolf Pak Privacy Constitution, not a marketing line.

What we collect — and what we never touch

Collected (minimum necessary)

  • A contributor’s account email (to sign in and manage uploads)
  • Uploaded media and the tags/titles a creator gives it
  • Aggregate, anonymous counts (how often an item was served)

Never collected

  • Who searched for what, or who sent what to whom
  • Behavioral profiles, ad IDs, cross-site trackers
  • Anything sold or handed to a third party for targeting

Media is stored on Cloudflare R2 — an approved, zero-knowledge storage layer under the Wolf Pak data-residency rules. Read the full Privacy Policy.

The same idea that built Tabella

Signal and WhatsApp were surveillance tools dressed as messengers. Giphy and Tenor are ad-data tools dressed as GIF libraries. Vividum is the fix — the same pattern, the same conviction.

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