Privacy Policy

Your images

Your images are never uploaded. Vectorize.tools traces images inside your browser, on your own device. When you add an image, it is opened in the memory of your browser tab, traced there, and the SVG or PNG is saved straight from the tab to your device. This site has no upload endpoint: we could not see your images even if we wanted to.

You can check this yourself: open your browser's network panel while you trace an image, or load the page once and turn your connection off. The tool keeps working, because nothing it needs is remote.

If you share images to the installed app from another app, your browser holds them in its own cache only until the page opens them, then deletes them. They are never sent anywhere.

What your browser downloads

On your first visit your browser downloads the page and the tracing engine (well under 1 MB) from this site, and keeps them in its cache so later visits and offline use are fast. These requests transfer files to you; they carry nothing of yours to us.

Analytics

We use Plausible Analytics, a privacy-first, EU-hosted service, to count page views and a few coarse tool events: the preset and output mode used, an image size band, a time band, the export format, whether a signup succeeded, and the reason when something fails. Plausible sets no cookies, collects no personal data, does not build a profile of you and does not follow you across sites. We never send file names, image dimensions, or anything derived from your images.

Turn Analytics off in the cookie preferences and your visits are not counted.

Hosting

The site is served by Cloudflare. Like any web host, Cloudflare processes standard request information (such as your IP address and browser type) to deliver pages and protect the service from abuse. We do not use it to identify you, and it never includes your images.

Email updates

If you sign up for updates, on the newsletter page or through the note about the upcoming AI cleanup, we keep the email address you enter, when and where on the site you entered it, and a signal that lets us limit abuse, until you unsubscribe. We use it only to send those updates. Every email has an unsubscribe link, and you can also write to hello@elowinlabs.com to be removed.

A security check runs when you use the form, to keep automated signups out. After you sign up, your browser keeps a small cookie (sk_nl) holding a scrambled fingerprint of the address, never the address itself, and two storage entries, so the form does not ask you again and repeated attempts can be slowed down.

Cookies and storage on your device

We keep a few small entries in your browser: the choice you make in the cookie notice, your light or dark theme and the language you picked (if you allow Functional storage), and the newsletter marks above. The Cookie Policy lists each one. Your privacy choices, in the footer of every page, reopens your preferences.

Support payments

Optional tips are handled by Ko-fi and Stripe on their own websites. We do not see your card details. Ko-fi shares your display name, email address, message and amount with us so we can thank you and keep accounting records. Nothing from Ko-fi or Stripe loads on this site; the Support this tool link simply opens their page.

What we do not do

We do not sell personal information, we do not show ads, we do not use advertising or cross-site tracking cookies, and we never receive, store or use your images for anything, including training AI models.

Your rights

Apart from an email address you give us for updates, we hold no personal data about you beyond the aggregate analytics above. You can ask us to access, correct or delete that address at any time. If you contact us by email or through a tip, we use your message only to reply, and we will delete it on request. You may also have the right to complain to your local data protection authority.

Children

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

Changes

If how Vectorize.tools handles data changes, this page changes first, and the date at the top is updated.

Contact

Vectorize.tools is operated by Elowin Labs LLC. Questions about this policy: hello@elowinlabs.com.