FromHEIC converts images in your web browser. This page describes what happens to files and data today. If that changes, this policy will be updated first, before the change goes live.
Your images
When you add a file, the browser reads it from your device. Decoding and encoding happen in the page. HEIC files use a decoder the page downloads from this same site. WebP and AVIF use the browser's own image decoder. The picture is not placed in a form submission, and this site has no server that accepts uploads. We do not see the photo and we do not keep a copy of it. It stays in the tab's memory until you clear the list, close the tab, or the browser discards it. The JPG, PNG, or ZIP you save goes to your downloads folder, under your browser's normal rules.
What we collect now
We do not currently collect personal data through the site. There is no account, no newsletter, and no form that stores a message on a server. The contact page is a mailto link. If you send email, that message is handled by the mailbox provider that receives it, not by this website.
We do not currently run analytics, and we do not currently run advertising. The pages do not include tracking pixels or third-party scripts. They do not set cookies of their own, and they do not currently set advertising cookies.
If analytics or ads are added later
This policy describes the site as it works now. It is not a promise that analytics or advertising will never be added. If either is added, for example to understand which pages are used or to cover hosting, this page will be updated before those tools are turned on. The update will say what is collected and which cookies, if any, are set. Until that edit is published, those tools are not part of the site.
The HEIC decoder download
The first time you convert a HEIC or HEIF file during a visit, the browser downloads the decoder from this host. That request is for a software file of a few megabytes. It does not contain your photo. WebP and AVIF conversion does not download it. Your browser may cache the file the way it caches other scripts.
Hosting
The pages are static files. Whoever hosts them can see ordinary connection data for a page request, such as an IP address, the way any web host does when it delivers HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Those requests do not include the images you convert. This project does not add its own application log of conversions, because the conversions do not reach an application server. If you deploy the site behind a host such as Cloudflare, that host's own policy covers network logs and abuse protection on their side.
Children
The tool does not ask who you are. It is not a service that collects children's information, because it does not collect an account or a profile from anyone.
Contact
Privacy questions: contact@fromheic.com.