What happens to your files

Nothing leaves your device. When you drop a file, the browser reads it from disk and processes it in memory, on a separate thread. The result is downloaded from that same memory.

There is no server receiving anything, because there is no server: the site is a set of static files.

How to check in ten seconds

Open your browser's developer tools (F12 in most), go to the network tab, clean a file and look at the list of requests. There will be none.

If you want to be stricter, turn on airplane mode and reload the page: it will keep working, because the whole thing is stored on your device the first time you visit.

The technical guarantee

The page declares a Content-Security-Policy containing connect-src 'none'. That directive makes the browser block any attempt at an outgoing connection, wherever it comes from. It is not our promise: it is the browser preventing it.

You can see it in the page source, in the <meta http-equiv="content-security-policy"> tag.

What we do not do

The full list, no small print:

No third-party analytics: nobody outside sees where you go. We count which pages get read and how fast they load on our own server, with no cookies and nothing that identifies you.
No cookies. No storage beyond remembering whether you prefer light or dark mode.
No fonts, icons or scripts loaded from other domains.
No IP address is logged, because there is nothing to receive them.

The one exception, and we flag it

If a file contains GPS coordinates we show them on a map drawn in the page itself, without requesting anything from a map server.

There is a button to open that location in OpenStreetMap. That link does leave KillEXIF and shares the coordinates with another website, which is why it sits behind a warning and needs you to click it.

The Mac and Windows apps

What is above describes the website. The KillEXIF apps for Mac and Windows keep the same rule: your files are read, cleaned and saved on your computer, and never leave it. There is no KillEXIF account, and no server of ours for the apps to talk to.

Their only connection is to the store you bought them from. To show prices, sell and check your licence, the Mac app uses Apple’s App Store and the Windows app the Microsoft Store, and Apple and Microsoft handle that under their own privacy policies (apple.com/legal/privacy and privacy.microsoft.com). We never see your card, and the app sends nothing about you or your files. The Mac app cannot even open a connection of its own: its sandbox does not grant that permission.

No analytics and no crash reports of their own. What macOS or Windows send to Apple or Microsoft depends on your system’s diagnostics settings, not on KillEXIF.
After a few good cleanings the app may ask for a rating. The request is the system’s own — macOS or the Microsoft Store shows it —, it can be switched off in the settings, and the app sends us nothing about it.
On your computer the app keeps its settings, the list of watched folders and, on Mac, the permission to reach the folders you chose and the last licence state the store confirmed. None of it leaves the computer.
The app shows no web pages of its own. Its links — this page, the terms, support — open in your browser when you click them.

Getting in touch

If you have a question about this policy or about what happens to your files, write to info@colorvivo.com. Messages are used to reply to you and nothing else: no list, no marketing, no sharing with anyone.

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