Privacy

Your images

Your images are processed entirely on your own device, inside your browser. They are not uploaded to us or to anyone else, and no copy of them is stored anywhere outside your computer or phone.

This is a description of how the software works rather than a promise about how we behave. FileBelow is a static website: it has no server that could receive an image, no database and no storage. When you choose a file, the browser hands it to a Web Worker running on your machine, which decodes and re-encodes it using the browser’s own image APIs. The result is handed back as a download.

You can verify this yourself. Open your browser’s developer tools, switch to the Network tab, and process an image. You will see the page’s own files load and nothing else — no request carries any image data, and the tool continues to work if you disconnect from the internet after the page has loaded.

What leaves your device

Only the requests needed to load the site itself: the HTML, the stylesheet, the JavaScript for the tool, and a self-hosted font. All of these come from this website’s own domain. There are no third-party scripts, no trackers, no embedded widgets and no external image or font hosts.

If you select a HEIC file — the format iPhones use — the browser additionally downloads a HEIC decoder from this site, because browsers cannot read that format natively. That is code being sent to you. Your photo is not sent anywhere.

Metadata in your images

Photographs usually carry EXIF metadata, which can include the camera used, the date and time, and the GPS coordinates where the photo was taken. Because FileBelow re-encodes the image, that metadata is not carried into the file you download. The image you get out has had it removed.

This happens on your device, as part of processing. We never see the metadata, because we never see the file.

Analytics

There is currently no analytics provider connected to this site, and no usage data is collected or transmitted. The code contains an analytics interface that does nothing until a provider is attached. If that changes, this page will be updated first, and the events collected would be limited to aggregate numbers and feature names — never file names, file contents or image data.

Cookies and local storage

FileBelow sets no cookies and stores nothing in your browser’s local storage. There is no account, no sign-in and nothing to remember between visits. Your browser will cache the site’s files in the ordinary way, as it does for any website.

Advertising

This site currently shows no advertising and loads no advertising code. We may add advertising in future; if we do, this page will be updated to say what that involves before it goes live.

Children

FileBelow is a general-purpose utility and is not directed at children. Because we collect no personal information from anyone, we hold none relating to children either.

Changes to this page

If what the software does changes, this page changes first. The date at the top reflects the last revision.

Contact

Questions about this policy can go to our contact page. The operator of this site is Jakov Iskrenovic.