1. What Are Cookies and How Does ReducerImage Use Them?
Cookies are small text files placed on your computer, mobile phone, or tablet by websites that you visit. They are widely used across the internet to allow websites to function properly, remember user preferences (such as light or dark display mode), provide seamless navigation, and deliver anonymized analytical data to site operators.
At ReducerImage, we maintain a strict principle of data minimization. We only employ cookies where technically required to deliver our web tools, preserve your user experience preferences, and display privacy-safe advertisements that enable us to keep every single image tool 100% free for students, job applicants, developers, and creators worldwide.
2. The Zero-Server Guarantee: Your Photos Never Touch Cookies
A fundamental architectural guarantee of ReducerImage is that your photos, files, and personal data are never stored in cookies or transferred across server boundaries:
- Client-Side Execution: Whether you compress an image to 20KB, remove a background, convert an iPhone HEIC file, or vectorize a logo, all pixel processing occurs inside your web browser's isolated JavaScript and WebAssembly engine.
- Size Limitations: Standard HTTP cookies have a strict technical ceiling of 4 Kilobytes of plain text. They cannot physically store high-resolution image data.
- Session Disposal: Memory Blobs generated during image operations reside purely in volatile RAM and vanish instantly when you refresh or close your browser tab.
3. Detailed Categories of Cookies Used
Below is a transparent breakdown of the specific cookie categories utilized on our platform:
| Category | Provider | Purpose | Lifespan |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strictly Necessary | ReducerImage | Maintains user session security, CSRF protection, and responsive mobile navigation states. | Session (Cleared upon browser exit) |
| Functional & UI | ReducerImage (LocalStorage) | Stores user visual preferences such as Dark Mode / Light Mode and recent tool settings. | Persistent (1 Year) |
| Analytics & Telemetry | Google Analytics 4 / GTM | Measures aggregate website traffic, popular tool usage, conversion latency, and device categories without identifying individuals. | Up to 2 Years |
| Advertising & Monetization | Google AdSense | Delivers non-intrusive contextual and interest-based ads to fund server hosting and keep tools completely free. | Up to 13 Months |
4. Google AdSense & Third-Party Advertising Disclosures
In accordance with Google AdSense Policies and EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) standards:
- Third-party advertising vendors, including Google, use cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites across the web.
- Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its certified ad network partners to serve ads to users based on their navigation patterns across participating properties.
- Users may opt out of personalized advertising at any time by visiting Google Ads Settings.
5. How to Control and Manage Cookies in Your Browser
You retain full authority to accept, restrict, or purge cookies through your individual web browser settings. Please note that disabling strictly necessary cookies may alter minor UI features (such as theme persistence), but our image manipulation tools will continue to function normally.
🌐 Google Chrome
Settings › Privacy and Security › Third-party cookies › Select your preferred blocking level.
🦊 Mozilla Firefox
Settings › Privacy & Security › Enhanced Tracking Protection › Set to Standard or Strict.
🧭 Apple Safari
Preferences › Privacy › Check 'Prevent cross-site tracking' and 'Block all cookies'.
🔷 Microsoft Edge
Settings › Cookies and site permissions › Manage and delete cookies and site data.
6. Industry-Wide Consumer Opt-Out Resources
To opt out of interest-based behavioral targeting across hundreds of advertising networks simultaneously, you may consult these certified independent industry registries:
- Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA): aboutads.info/choices
- Network Advertising Initiative (NAI): networkadvertising.org/choices
- European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (EDAA): youronlinechoices.eu
7. Policy Updates & Contact Details
We may update this Cookie Policy periodically to reflect technological updates, legal compliance shifts, or browser API changes. Any revisions will take effect immediately upon publication with an updated revision date.
If you have questions regarding our cookie practices or client-side privacy architecture, reach out through our Contact Desk or email our compliance team at privacy@reducerimage.com.