Who touches what, which robots we run, and what we never train on.
Maintained by Dad, explained by Joseph · Last reviewed August 27, 2026
Grown-up companies send their customers pages of legal notices about "sub-processors." We are a kid and his dad, but the idea underneath is right: you should be able to see every service that touches data when you use this site, and exactly what our robots do with what you type. This page is that list, kept current. When it changes, the changelog at the bottom says so.
The full list, our equivalent of a sub-processor register. "What it touches" is everything that service can see.
| Service | Job | What it touches | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Lab’s rack | Runs the Imaginator, the TTL Robot’s first brain, and the print queue | Toy ideas, generated 3D models, chat questions, print requests | our house, TX |
| Vercel | Hosts this website and its serverless functions | Visitor requests (IP addresses), form submissions in transit, short-lived technical logs | US cloud |
| Shopify | The shop: checkout, orders, the Lab List | Orders, shipping addresses, emails, newsletter signups; card details go to Shopify’s payment processors, so we never see card numbers | US/CA cloud |
| Resend | Sends our emails (welcome codes, order notes, form deliveries) | Email addresses and the contents of emails we send you | US cloud |
| Quo (formerly OpenPhone) | Our phone line, (512) 399-2625: calls and texts | Phone numbers and the contents of calls/texts with us | US cloud |
| Anthropic | Claude: backup brain for the TTL Robot chat and the Part-O-Matic | Only the text you type to those two robots | US cloud |
| Delivers this site’s fonts; handles the mailbox behind joseph@texastoylab.com; your browser’s voice input | Font requests (IP only); emails you send us; if you use the microphone, your browser vendor converts speech to text | US cloud | |
| Porkbun | Our domain and email forwarding | Email routing to our mailbox | US cloud |
| unpkg (Cloudflare) | Serves the 3D-viewer code on the Imaginator page | The request for the code file (IP only) | global CDN |
We also post on Instagram, TikTok, X, Facebook and LinkedIn, those platforms only see what you do on their sites, under their own policies. Our 3D printers run in LAN mode inside our house and do not send your data anywhere.
Everything with a brain at the Lab, and where each brain lives:
| Robot | Model / software | Runs where |
|---|---|---|
| The Imaginator (idea → picture) | SDXL-Turbo (open-source image model) | our rack |
| The Imaginator (picture → 3D toy) | Hunyuan3D-2 (open-source 3D model) | our rack |
| Idea safety check | Open-weights language model screening every prompt before printing | our rack |
| TTL Robot chat | Open-weights language model first; Anthropic Claude as backup when the rack is busy | our rack / Anthropic |
| Part-O-Matic | Anthropic Claude | Anthropic |
| Voice input | Your browser’s built-in speech recognition (e.g. Google’s, in Chrome) | your browser’s vendor |
What we may use to improve our own models: toy ideas typed or spoken into the Imaginator, the 3D models it drew, and whether you pressed "I love it!" or sent it to print. Our roadmap is to fine-tune the Lab’s own models on Joseph’s designs and on what kinds of toys people love, so the Imaginator gets better at making toys. That happens only on our own computers. We do not attach names or emails to that data, and we tell you not to type personal details into the robots because they genuinely don’t need them.
What is never used for training, by anyone: your emails, contact-form messages, texts, calls, orders, addresses, and the Lab List. Full stop.
Third-party AI: we use Anthropic’s commercial API, and under those terms Anthropic does not train its models on our inputs or outputs. We do not send your data to any other AI company, and we will update this page before that ever changes.
This site is built for families, so we collect as little as possible on purpose: no accounts, no ad trackers, forms marked grown-ups-only, and robots that are told not to ask for personal details. The one place a child’s first name is the point, the Imaginator’s "Make my name" keychain, asks for a first name only and uses it only to shape the letters. Under-13s are asked to have a grown-up submit any form. Details in the privacy notes.
Formally: Crabtree Ventures LLC (dba Texas Toy Lab) is the data controller for this site. The services above act on our instructions as service providers. We keep this register current and date every change below; if we ever engage a provider whose role meaningfully changes how your data is handled, we will update this page before the change takes effect. Questions or objections: joseph@texastoylab.com or (512) 399-2625; a parent answers both.
2026-08-27 · page created; full register and AI stack published
2026-08-26 · Quo added (phone/SMS); Lab List welcome emails via Resend
2026-08-25 · Resend engaged for transactional email