trust center · for institutions

everything the policy office asks for.

Before a university can let students build on a tool, someone has to answer for it: the data-protection officer, the security reviewer, the sustainability lead. MakeMode answers them plainly — where your data lives, how it's protected, whose software it really is, and what it costs the planet.

built in europe · runs on french infrastructure · nothing leaves the eu

four questions, answered honestly.

We'd rather tell you what's true today and what's still in progress than polish a guarantee we can't yet sign. Each page is written for the person who has to sign off.

where does my data go?

privacy & data residency

The institution is the controller, MakeMode the processor. What little data exists, how it flows, the EU-only model hop, sub-processors, and your GDPR rights.

privacy →

can i take it with me?

your data

Everything you make, downloadable as one archive in formats that open without us — and the button that erases all of it. Article 15, 20 and 17, answered by self-service.

your data →

how is it protected?

security

Encryption in transit and at rest, least-privilege access, secrets management, incident response — and open source you can read instead of trust.

security →

whose software is it?

sovereignty & open models

What sovereignty really means, and the models we run: EU-provenance by default (Mistral, Devstral), open weights optional — all hosted on French soil. You choose.

sovereignty →

what does it cost the planet?

environmental impact

France's low-carbon grid (~10× cleaner than the EU average), ADEME-audited per-model carbon, and CSRD-ready reporting — clean by the same accident that makes it sovereign.

environment →

the short version

what the checklist usually asks.

data residencyCompute, inference and storage run on Scaleway in France (fr-par). EU-only by design.

gdpr rolesYour institution is the data controller; MakeMode is the processor, under a DPA.

the model hopPrompts are answered by models hosted in France — nothing crosses to the US or beyond the EU.

open sourceThe software is auditable and forkable. Read it, fork it, or self-host it.

no lock-inOpen weights and open code mean no remote kill switch and no single foreign vendor to depend on.

sustainabilityADEME-audited carbon per model and project; CSRD-ready summary reports.

Need something specific for a procurement file or a DPIA? Email hello@makemode.eu — we'll send the detail.

honest about what's signed and what's in progress.

MakeMode is early-stage. The architecture is sovereign by design and running today, and that's most of the story. But the EU-only, no-retention, no-training commitments become fully contractual as each data-processing agreement is signed — so we describe them as our operating commitment and design intent, not as settled guarantees. We'd rather you trust the page because it's careful than because it's confident.

the one you're allowed to say yes to.

See it running, or get the detail your reviewers need.

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