Privacy policy

This policy covers sellerphotokit.com and every tool on it. It is written to be checkable rather than comprehensive-sounding: where we say something is not collected, you can verify it with the network inspector built into your browser.

Your photographs

Your photographs are never uploaded and never leave your device. Every tool here — resizing, cropping, compressing, metadata removal, background whitening, DPI checking — runs as code inside your own browser tab, using your own processor and memory. There is no server-side image processing on this site, and no endpoint that accepts an image.

Consequences of that worth stating out loud:

• We do not store your photographs, because we never receive them.
• We cannot recover a file for you. If you close the tab before downloading, the result is gone — there is nowhere it could have been kept.
• We do not use your photographs to train anything, and could not, for the same reason.
• Nothing is deleted on a schedule, because there is no copy anywhere with a lifespan.
• No photograph, filename or tool result reaches an advertiser or an analytics service. The advertising and measurement code sits in the page; it has no access to what the tools are doing with your files.

To verify it: open your browser's developer tools, select the Network tab, then run a batch of photographs through any tool on the site. You will see the page's own files load, advertising and measurement requests if those are enabled, and no request carrying your images. That check takes about fifteen seconds and is worth doing on any site that makes this claim, including this one.

One deliberate exception, so the claim stays exact: metadata removal and DPI checking read the technical fields inside your file — camera model, GPS coordinates, resolution tags — in order to display or strip them. That reading also happens on your device, and the values are shown to you and nobody else.

What we never collect

There is no account system on this site, so there is no name, email address, password or profile associated with your use of it. We do not ask who you are, and we have no way of finding out. There is no session recording, no heatmap, no keystroke capture and no cross-site visitor identifier that belongs to us.

The measurement and advertising described below is Google's and Cloudflare's, on our behalf and under their policies. We see counts and charts. We do not see you.

Hosting and server logs

The site is a set of static files served by Cloudflare Pages from Cloudflare's network. Like every web host, that infrastructure records standard technical request information as pages are served — IP address, approximate time, which file was requested, browser user-agent string — which is used for delivering the site, for security and for blocking abuse. We do not build visitor profiles from it, and it is not combined with anything else.

Those log entries are generated by the act of requesting a page, exactly as they are on any website. They contain no photographs, because no photograph is ever part of a request.

Measuring traffic

Two measurement tools run on this site, and they are deliberately different from each other.

Cloudflare Web Analytics — the page counter

Counts page views, referrers and rough country, and nothing else. It uses no cookies, no local storage and no device fingerprinting: there is no identifier to store, so there is nothing that could follow you between visits or between sites. Because it needs no consent, it is not affected by the advertising choice below, and it counts every visitor equally.

Google Analytics 4 — the behaviour report

Shows which tools get used and where people give up, which is what tells us what to build next. This one does use a cookie, and only with your permission. Where consent is required and you have not given it, Google's tag still runs but is held to a cookieless mode: it reads and writes nothing on your device, and the request it sends carries no identifier that persists past that page view. Where you have given permission, it sets a _ga cookie so repeat visits can be recognised as the same browser.

Neither tool receives a photograph, a filename, or anything you type. Both report to us in aggregate — totals and charts, not individual sessions.

Advertising

Advertising is not switched on in this build yet. This section describes how it works when it is — Google AdSense, placed below the tools rather than around them — so the position is on the record before the first advert loads rather than after.

You are shown adverts either way. What your choice changes is how they are selected, and whether anything is stored on your device to select them.

• Google's advertising script loads on every page view — before you have answered the consent question, and also if you refuse. That is deliberate, and it is what makes the fallback in the next point possible. If you would rather no advertising domain were contacted at all, a content blocker will stop it, and every tool on this site keeps working.
• If you refuse, or have not yet answered, Google serves what it calls limited ads: chosen from the content of the page rather than from anything about you, with no advertising cookie or device identifier read or written. Google may still set one identifier in this mode to detect click fraud and invalid traffic, which is necessary to run an advertising system at all rather than a way of profiling you.
• If you accept, Google and its advertising partners may set cookies and read device identifiers in your browser to select, cap and measure adverts, including selecting them based on your prior visits to this and other websites.
• Either way, that data is collected and held by Google under Google's own advertising policies, not by us. We do not receive it, and we cannot see who you are through it.

How you are asked, and how to change your mind

Visitors in the United Kingdom, the European Economic Area and Switzerland are asked before any advertising or analytics cookie is set, through Google's own consent management platform. Until that question is answered the answer is treated as no.

To change that answer later, use Advert preferences in the footer of every page. It reopens the same dialogue, and withdrawing takes exactly as many clicks as accepting.

Elsewhere in the world — where the law is opt-out rather than opt-in — personalised advertising is on by default, which is how advertising-funded sites generally work. There is no consent record to reopen in that case, so the footer control does not appear; the controls that do apply are Google's own, and they work across every site rather than just this one:

• Turn off personalised advertising for your Google account at myadcenter.google.com.
• Manage third-party advertising cookies more broadly at aboutads.info/choices or youronlinechoices.eu.
• Clearing your site data in your browser settings removes everything described in the next section, including the stored consent answer.

The tools work identically whether you accept, refuse or block the adverts outright. Nothing on this site is gated behind consent, and nothing measures whether you consented before letting you resize a photograph.

What is stored on your device

One item is ours. The rest belong to Google, are set only in the circumstances described above, and are listed here so the whole picture is in one place.

spk-theme in local storage — ours

Remembers whether you chose the light or dark appearance, so the site does not flash the wrong one on your next visit. It holds a single word, it is not a cookie and is never attached to a request, and it never leaves your browser. If you never touch the theme control, it is never written.

A consent record — Google's

Written when you answer the advertising question, so you are not asked again on every page. It holds your answer and when you gave it. It exists only for visitors who are asked, and only after they have answered.

Advertising and analytics cookies — Google's

Set only where personalised advertising or analytics is permitted: by your consent, or by default outside the regions listed above. These are the cookies that recognise a browser across visits, cap how often you see the same advert, and attribute a click. Refusing means they are not set; limited ads use a single fraud-detection identifier instead.

The tools also use your browser's temporary in-memory storage while you have a photograph open, which your browser discards when you close the tab. Nothing about your photographs is written to disk by this site.

Links to marketplaces

The guide pages link to help centre articles on Poshmark, Depop, Vinted, Mercari, eBay and Etsy so you can check our figures against the source. Those sites have their own privacy policies and their own tracking, and we have no control over either.

Children

This site is a set of tools for people selling things online and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children, because we do not collect personal information ourselves at all.

Your rights

Data protection law — including the UK GDPR and the EU GDPR — gives you rights to access, correct, delete and object to the processing of your personal data. The unusual position here is that we hold almost nothing to which those rights could attach: no account, no photographs, no record that connects a page view to a person, and no contact details unless you have emailed us.

• Photographs and tool results: already only on your device. You delete them by deleting the files.
• Theme preference: clear the site data in your browser settings.
• Advertising and Google Analytics data: held by Google, and exercisable through the links in the advertising section above. Withdrawing consent stops any further collection; Advert preferences in the footer is the fastest route.
• Cloudflare Web Analytics: nothing to exercise a right over, because there is no identifier in it. A page view is a count, not a record about you.
• Emails you send us: we keep them in the mailbox in order to reply. Ask and we will delete the thread.

If you think we are handling something wrongly, tell us first at hello@sellerphotokit.com. You also have the right to complain to the data protection authority in the country you live in.

Changes to this policy

The date at the top of this page is when it last changed. If anything above changes — a different advertising network, another measurement tool, a new cookie — this page is updated in the same release rather than afterwards.

The no-upload commitment is not a provisional one. It is not a promise about current practice that a future version might quietly drop: if it ever had to change, the tools would be changed instead.

Contact

Questions about this policy go to hello@sellerphotokit.com, or via the contact page.