Privacy Policy

• Your images are processed in your browser. They are not uploaded to Image York and we do not store them.
• Three tools download program files from other services (IMG.LY and jsDelivr). Your images are not sent with those downloads.
• The site uses Microsoft Clarity for analytics and Google AdSense for advertising. Both use cookies and collect information about your visit.
• There are no user accounts. If you email us, we receive your email address and message.

When you choose a file in any Image York tool, your browser reads it from your device and processes it in the page. Compression, resizing, conversion, metadata reading and removal, background removal, text recognition and every other tool run on your device. There is no upload step and no server-side processing. We do not receive, see or keep your images, the text extracted from them or their metadata.

While a page is open, your images and results are held in the browser’s memory. They are discarded when you reset the tool, reload or close the page. Downloads are saved by your browser to the location you choose. Image York does not keep a history of files you have used.

• AI Background Remover and Blur Background download the IMG.LY background-removal model and runtime from staticimgly.com the first time you use them.
• Image to Text downloads the Tesseract OCR engine and English language data from cdn.jsdelivr.net. The language data is then kept in your browser’s storage to speed up later use.

These requests contain only what any web request contains, such as your IP address and browser details. Your images are not included. IMG.LY and jsDelivr handle those requests under their own privacy policies.

Image York uses Microsoft Clarity to understand how the site is used, for example which tools are popular and where people get stuck. Clarity collects information such as pages visited, clicks, scrolling and mouse movement, device and browser type, and approximate location derived from your IP address, and it can produce heatmaps and session recordings that show how the page looked and was used. It uses cookies for this, described in the Cookie Policy.

Clarity does not receive your image files, which only exist inside your browser tab. Page areas that show content taken from your files, such as extracted text, metadata values and Base64 output, are marked so that Clarity masks them in recordings.

Microsoft processes this data under the Microsoft Privacy Statement.

Image York loads Google AdSense, which may show ads on the site. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your previous visits to this website and other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to Image York and other sites on the internet.

You can opt out of personalised advertising in Google Ads Settings, and opt out of some other vendors’ use of cookies for personalised advertising at aboutads.info. Google explains how it uses data from sites that show its ads at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

Advertising scripts do not receive your images.

Like almost every website, the servers that deliver Image York’s pages may record standard request information, such as IP address, browser type, the page requested and the time, for security and troubleshooting. These logs never contain your images, because images are not sent to the server.

If you email us, we receive your email address, your name if you include it, and your message. We use them to reply and to fix the problem you report, and we do not add you to any mailing list.

• Block or delete cookies in your browser settings. The tools keep working without cookies.
• Use Google Ads Settings to turn off personalised ads from Google.
• Use a content blocker to stop analytics or advertising scripts from loading.
• Clear your browser’s site data to remove cached OCR language files.

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to ask what personal data we hold about you, and to have it corrected or deleted. Image York itself holds very little: only emails you send us. For data collected by Microsoft or Google, their own tools and contact points are usually the quickest route. For anything else, use the contact page.

Image York is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them.

If the site starts using a new service or the way data is handled changes, this page will be updated and the date at the top will change.

Questions about this policy can be sent through the contact page.