Pixel Art Converter

Privacy policy

Last updated

In short

  • Your images never leave your device. They are converted in your browser, by the website or the extension.
  • The Chrome extension collects no data at all.
  • The website counts visits and a few actions in the converter, without cookies and without knowing who you are.
  • No accounts, no ads, nothing sold or shared for advertising.

The Chrome extension

The extension sends nothing to us or anyone else. It has no analytics and loads no code from the internet. What it uses, and why:

  • Context menu: adds "Convert to pixel art" when you right-click an image.
  • Access to the page you right-clicked (only after the click, only that tab): to download the image you chose, from inside the page when the image's site allows only that page to read it.
  • Storage: hands the image to the converter tab. It is kept on your computer only until the tab opens it, then deleted. If you close the tab first, the image is not kept; anything left over is deleted the next time the extension or the browser starts.
  • Access to a site, optional: if an image's site refuses every other way, the converter asks you to allow that one site. Chrome asks once per site; you can remove it in the extension's settings.

After install the extension opens our welcome page, and after removal Chrome opens our goodbye page. Those are pages of this website and follow the website section below.

This website

We use PostHog (servers in the EU) to count visits and how the converter is used, in cookieless mode: nothing is stored in your browser for it, and visitors are counted with a code that PostHog's server makes and changes every day. No personal profiles are made, and nothing is recorded of what you type or where you move the mouse. A page view carries what any visit does: the page's address, the site you came from, your browser and system, screen size, language and time zone. Besides page views, these are all the events the site sends:

image_loaded
An image opened in the converter: where it came from as a category (an example, a file, paste or drag and drop) and, for an example, which one. Never the file name or the image.
unsupported_format
A file could not be opened because its format is not supported: where it came from, as above. Never the file name.
counts_row_clicked
You clicked a color in the color list. Nothing else.
export
You exported a PNG: the palette, size, style and PNG scale you chose, whether Photo mode was on, whether you used the color list, and where the image came from as a category. Never the image or its name.
uninstall_reason
On the page shown after removing the extension, the reason you tapped, if you tapped one. Nothing else.

PostHog receives your IP address with each request, as any server does; our PostHog project is set to discard it instead of storing it with the events. The site is hosted by Netlify, whose servers keep standard request logs.

One thing is kept in your browser's local storage: a note that the "Add to Chrome" strip was already shown, so it does not show again. It never leaves your browser.

Children

Many people who build pixel art in Minecraft are children. The site and the extension ask for no name, email or account, show no ads and collect nothing that identifies a person, so there is nothing personal about a child to collect, keep or share. Parents with questions can write to us at the address below.

Contact

Questions or requests: privacy@pixel-art-converter.app. If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it.