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Placeholder.photo does not require an account and is designed to collect as little personal data as practical.

Operational data

The hosting platform and application may temporarily process ordinary request information needed for security, delivery and fault diagnosis. Abuse protection uses a one-way, salted representation of the requesting IP address and short-lived counters rather than a public user profile.

Aggregate statistics

We may retain aggregate counts such as generator type, dimensions, format, cache hit rate, errors and render time. These statistics are intended for operations and product improvement, not persistent individual tracking.

Consent and optional analytics

Consently is used to present privacy choices, store your consent preference and keep a consent record. On normal HTML pages, it initializes Consent Mode before the Placeholder.photo-specific Google Tag Manager container loads, followed by the Jansma VIP global container. The containers themselves always load, but optional measurement tags run only according to the consent state. With permission, the site-specific container may load Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity to measure aggregate usage and improve the interface. Refusing optional cookies does not prevent use of the generator or public image URLs.

Generator controls, preview content and generated URLs are marked for masking in Clarity recordings. Image and API responses do not contain the banner, Tag Manager or analytics scripts.

Cookies and advertising

See the Placeholder.photo Cookie Policy for categories and preference controls. Personalized advertising and external adserver zones are not active. If advertising requiring consent is enabled later, its tags must remain blocked until the applicable choice has been granted.

Operator and contact

Placeholder.photo is built and operated by Jansma VIP, KvK 88537048, Merelstraat 10, 1521 XR Wormerveer, The Netherlands (no visit location). Privacy questions can be sent through the Jansma VIP contact page. The wider operator documents are the Jansma VIP Privacy Policy and Privacy Framework.

Generated privacy document

placeholder.jansma.vip · 2024
Jansma VIP

Placeholder Image Generator

Create customizable placeholder images for your projects with ease.

Basic Placeholder: https://placeholder.photo/300x200 Current Placeholder.photo output in the former pixel style
Dynamic Generator
Width (px):300
Height (px):200
Custom Text:Optional
Recreated interface · current renderer and watermark rules
A little placeholder history

Same useful idea.
A much bigger toolkit.

Jansma VIP ran a compact generator at placeholder.jansma.vip from 2024. It handled the classic size, colour and text URLs that now remain supported by Placeholder.photo.

  1. 2022An unrelated earlier developer project used the Placeholder.photo domain.
  2. 2024Jansma VIP launched its own small generator at placeholder.jansma.vip.
  3. 2026The independently built Placeholder.photo platform brought Classic, procedural art, photos, logos and avatars together.

This is an independent new implementation—not a claim of ownership over the earlier 2022 project. The nostalgic panel is a faithful visual nod, rebuilt with today’s Placeholder.photo URLs.