Free Online Image OptimizerPrivacy Notice
About This Notice
This Privacy Notice explains what ScientiaMobile Inc. (“ScientiaMobile,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) does with information processed in connection with the Online Image Optimizer at onlineimageoptimizer.com (the “Service”).
ScientiaMobile Inc. is a corporation incorporated in the State of Delaware, USA, with principal offices in Reston, Virginia, USA. Use of the Service is also subject to our Terms of Service.
The Service has no accounts, no login, and no registration. We do not ask you for your name, your email address, or any other contact detail, and we have no way to associate a submitted image with a named individual.
1. What the Service Processes
1.1 The File You Submit
When you upload a file, or ask the Service to retrieve an image from a URL you supply, we receive that file and its filename. It is stored only for as long as needed to deliver your optimized versions and is then deleted automatically — see Section 3.
By default the Service removes embedded metadata (EXIF) — including location and camera information — from every image it returns. The interface offers an option to retain it, which is off unless you turn it on.
The Service also accepts a PDF and returns one image per page. The document is processed only to produce those images, and is discarded once they have been made.
We do not analyse the content of what you submit, and we do not use it for any purpose other than producing the versions you asked for. We do not sell it, and we do not share it with anyone other than the delivery infrastructure described in Section 4.
1.2 Device Information
The Service loads WURFL.js, ScientiaMobile's device detection library, which processes standard HTTP request headers — principally the User-Agent string and, on supported browsers, UA Client Hints. These describe your browser and device in general terms: device type, manufacturer, model, operating system and screen properties.
We use this to adapt the interface to your device, for example to offer clipboard pasting on a desktop computer but not on a phone, and to send fewer and smaller image versions to a phone than to a desktop. This is a core function of the Service, which exists in part to demonstrate device-adaptive behaviour.
1.3 IP Address
Our infrastructure and our content delivery network receive your IP address as an ordinary part of serving any request over the internet. We use it for security, fraud detection and invalid traffic prevention, at the address level rather than to identify an individual. Section 3 describes how these logs are handled.
1.4 Storage in Your Browser
The Service registers a service worker and stores its own interface files in your browser so that the page loads quickly and works offline.
It also keeps the file you are working on there. Each tool is a separate page, so a copy is held in your browser's own storage in order that moving from one tool to another does not lose the file you had chosen; the same applies to an image shared into the Service from another app on your device. That copy stays on your device and is not sent anywhere — uploading a file for optimization is a separate step, described in Section 1.1 — and no other website can read it. It is removed when you take the file off the page, once the versions you asked for have been handed over, and in any case after a short period.
You can clear all of this at any time through your browser's settings for this site.
2. What We Do Not Do
- We do not require or hold an account or a password, and the tools themselves ask you for nothing. If you write to us through the contact form, we receive the name and address you choose to give us, together with your message, and we use them to reply and for nothing else.
- Apart from the usage measurement described in Section 5, we do not build a profile of you, and we do not track you across other websites.
- We do not sell any information about you.
- We do not inspect, classify or index the content of submitted images or documents.
- We make no automated decision about you that has any legal or similarly significant effect.
3. Retention
Messages sent through the contact form reach us as email and are kept for as long as we need them to deal with what you wrote about.
Submitted files and the images generated from them are deleted automatically after a short period. A submitted PDF is discarded as soon as its pages have been made. This happens on its own and needs nothing from you. Copies may persist in content delivery network caches, and in your own browser cache, for a period after that deletion.
Server and delivery logs may include IP addresses and technical information about each request. We use these logs for security, fraud detection, invalid traffic prevention, and the operation and improvement of the Service. We do not use this information to identify individual visitors.
We do not create user accounts and we do not maintain user profiles. Apart from the analytics described in Section 5, which uses a persistent identifier to recognise a returning browser, we do not use IP addresses or other technical request information to identify individual visitors, and we do not set out to construct a history of any individual’s use of the Service.
4. Third Parties
The Service depends on the following parties. Each is described with what it receives and why.
- ImageEngine (ScientiaMobile) — performs the image optimization and delivers the results. Receives your image and your request metadata. Operated by us.
- WURFL.js (ScientiaMobile) — device detection, as described in Section 1.2. Receives your request headers. Operated by us.
- Amazon Web Services — provides the storage in which submitted images are held until deletion.
- Google AdSense — the advertising code that may place advertisements on the Service. It loads on every page, so Google receives your IP address and may set or read cookies on your device in order to select and measure advertisements, whether or not an advertisement is actually shown. Google's handling of this data is governed by Google's own policies, at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
- Google Analytics — measures how the Service is used, so that we can see which tools are worth keeping and where people get stuck. Google receives your IP address and sets cookies on your device. Google’s handling of this data is governed by Google’s own policies, at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
- Google reCAPTCHA — checks that contact-form submissions come from people rather than software. It runs only on the contact page. Google receives your IP address and information about your interaction with that page, and may set cookies, in order to score the submission. Google’s handling of this data is governed by Google’s own policies, at policies.google.com/privacy.
- Google Fonts — serves the typeface used by the interface, and receives your IP address in the course of doing so.
5. Cookies and Similar Technologies
We use Google Analytics 4 to understand which tools are used and where visitors run into difficulty. It sets cookies on your device, including a persistent identifier that allows a returning visitor to be recognised as the same browser. Cookies may also be set by Google in connection with advertising, as described in Section 4. By continuing to use the Service you consent to these cookies being set. You may withdraw that consent at any time by blocking or deleting cookies in your browser settings, which will not prevent you from using the Service.
6. Children
The Service is not directed to children and we do not knowingly process information relating to a child. Do not submit images of children unless you have the right to do so.
7. Security
Submissions are transmitted over encrypted connections. Stored images are held at addresses that include a randomly generated, unguessable component and are deleted automatically. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and the Service should not be used for images whose disclosure would cause harm.
8. Changes to This Notice
We may update this Notice by posting a new version at this address, with a revised version number and date.
9. Contact
Questions about this Notice, and requests concerning your own information, may be sent through our contact form, which reaches the people responsible for it.