Privacy policy

The short version

• Your files are converted on your device and never uploaded. We never receive, see or store them.
• We have no accounts, so we don’t hold names, email addresses or passwords (unless you email us).
• Our hosting provider keeps standard server logs, and we use cookieless analytics that count page views in aggregate.
• Ads from Google AdSense pay for the site. Google may use cookies for them, and visitors in the EEA, the UK and Switzerland are asked for consent first.
• We don’t sell your data.

Your files

When you convert a file, your browser reads it from your device and the converter, which runs inside your browser, processes it there. The result is created in your browser’s memory and saved back to your device. File contents, file names and converted results are not sent to FileToaster’s servers or to anyone else.

This applies to your file data. The pages themselves load code, ads and analytics over the internet, as described below. How it works explains the technical details and shows how you can check for yourself that no file is uploaded.

What we collect

Server and network logs

FileToaster is hosted on Cloudflare’s network. Like virtually every website host, Cloudflare processes technical information about each request to deliver pages and protect the site from abuse: for example your IP address, the page requested, the time, your browser’s user-agent string and the referring page. We use this only to run and secure the site. Cloudflare’s handling of this data is described in Cloudflare’s privacy policy.

Analytics

We use Cloudflare Web Analytics to understand how many people visit which pages. It’s cookieless: it doesn’t set cookies, doesn’t use local storage and doesn’t fingerprint your device. We see aggregate figures such as page views, referring sites, countries and browser types, not individual visitors.

Email

If you email us, we receive your email address and whatever you write. We use it only to reply and to fix what you report, and we don’t add you to any mailing list.

Advertising

FileToaster is free because of banner ads, which are provided by Google AdSense. Ads appear in labeled spaces. We never use popups.

Google and its partners may use cookies and similar technologies (such as local storage and device identifiers) to show ads, limit how often you see the same ad, measure ad performance and detect fraud. With your consent where required, they may also use them to show ads based on your interests. Google’s ad code runs on our pages, so Google can receive information such as your IP address, browser details and the page you’re visiting. It doesn’t receive your files.

• EEA, UK and Switzerland: you’re asked for consent through Google’s consent tool before advertising cookies are used for personalized ads. If you decline, Google may still show ads that aren’t personalized. Google’s policies describe how those ads use cookies or similar technologies.
• Changing your mind: you can review or change your choice at any time with the Privacy choices link in the footer of every page.
• Everywhere: you can control ad personalization in Google’s My Ad Center and block or delete cookies in your browser.

Learn more in Google’s Privacy Policy, how Google uses information from sites that use its services and how Google uses cookies in advertising. Our cookie page lists the cookies involved.

What we don’t do

• We don’t have user accounts or profiles.
• We don’t sell your personal information, and we have no files to sell, because we never receive them.
• We don’t use your files for anything, including training AI models. We never have them.
• We don’t use our own tracking cookies or fingerprinting.

Legal bases (EEA and UK visitors)

Where the GDPR or UK GDPR applies, we rely on our legitimate interests in running a secure, working website for server logs and aggregate analytics, and on your consent for personalized advertising cookies. You can withdraw consent at any time through Privacy choices in the footer.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete or object to the processing of your personal data, and to complain to your local data protection authority. Because we don’t have accounts and never receive your files, we usually hold no personal data that we can link to you. For data held by Google or Cloudflare, use their tools and policies linked above. For anything else, contact us.

Children

FileToaster is a general-audience tool and isn’t directed at children under 13. We don’t knowingly collect personal information from children.

Changes to this policy

If we change how FileToaster handles data, we’ll update this page and the date below. Significant changes will also be noted on this page.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Email hello@filetoaster.com. Please don’t send us your files.