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Privacy Policy
This page explains, in plain terms, what actually happens to your data when you use HD Photo Converter: not a generic template, but a description of what this specific tool's code actually does. The short version: your photos are never uploaded anywhere, there's no account or tracking cookie, and the only data collection on this site is basic, cookie-free traffic statistics.
Your photos: never uploaded, never stored
When you use the upscaling and conversion tool on this site, your photo is read, processed, and re-encoded entirely inside your own browser tab, using your device's own processor. This isn't a policy choice about what we do with an upload after receiving it, because there is no upload step in the code at all. The photo file never becomes part of an HTTP request to any server, ours or anyone else's. Once you close the tab or navigate away, the photo and its upscaled result exist only wherever you chose to save the download; this site keeps no copy of either.
No accounts, no passwords, no personal profile
There is no sign-up, login, or account system anywhere on this site. Nothing you do here is tied to an identity, an email address, or a persistent profile, because no such system exists to tie it to.
What this site does store locally, on your device
A small amount of information is saved in your browser's own local storage (not a cookie, and not sent to any server automatically) so the site behaves sensibly on your next visit:
- Theme preference: whether you last chose light or dark mode, so the site doesn't reset to default every time you return.
- Feedback vote flag: a marker recording that you already voted 👍 or 👎 on a particular tool, so you aren't shown the same prompt repeatedly. It records only which tool and which vote, never anything that identifies you.
The optional feedback button
If you choose to click the 👍 or 👎 feedback button under a tool, your browser sends a small anonymous message containing exactly two pieces of information: which tool you rated, and which way you voted. No cookie, IP address, or device fingerprint is attached to that message by this site's own code, and it is used purely as an aggregate counter ("how many people found this tool helpful"), never to build a profile of you individually. As with any request to any website, the underlying network connection necessarily passes through our hosting provider's infrastructure (Cloudflare), which, like virtually every website host, keeps standard connection-level logs (such as IP address and timestamp) for operating and securing the service; that's a property of how the internet and this site's hosting work, not something this site's own application code additionally collects or stores.
Analytics: cookie-free, aggregated, no individual tracking
This site uses Cloudflare Web Analytics for basic traffic statistics: for example, how many people visit, which pages are popular, and how fast pages load. Cloudflare Web Analytics is specifically designed to work without cookies and without any persistent client-side identifier, and it does not track you across other websites. It reports aggregated numbers (like total page views), not individual visitor histories. No banner asking you to "accept cookies" appears on this site, because no tracking cookie is set that would require one.
Fonts and other assets: self-hosted, no third-party requests
The typefaces used on this site (Inter for body text, a small custom-subset display font for the logo) are hosted on this site's own servers rather than loaded live from Google Fonts or any other third-party font service. That means simply viewing a page here doesn't trigger a separate request to a font company that could, on some sites, be used to build a browsing profile. The same applies to the site's icons and images: they're served from this site, not embedded from a third party.
Advertising
To be direct about where this site stands today: no third-party advertising is currently served on this site. The layout reserves a labelled, fixed-height space below the tool for advertising that may be added in the future to help cover hosting costs, but as of now that space is empty and loads nothing: no ad script, no ad cookie, no ad tracking. If that changes, this page will be updated to describe exactly what's added and what data, if any, the ad provider collects, before it goes live.
Children's privacy
This site is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, of any age, largely because it doesn't collect personal information from anyone at all, given there's no account system or photo upload to begin with.
Your choices and control
Because everything this site stores about your visit lives in your own browser's local storage rather than on a server, you're always in full control of it: clearing your browser's site data for this domain (through your browser's own settings) removes the theme preference and feedback-vote flag immediately and completely. There's no account to delete and no server-side profile to request removal of, because none exists.
Changes to this policy
If what this site collects or how it works changes (for example, if advertising is added), this page will be updated to describe the change plainly, in the same style as the rest of this page, rather than buried in dense legal language.
Contact
Questions about this policy or how the site works can be sent to contact@hdphotoconverter.xyz.