The website
ConvertArtist converts image files in YOUR browser.
It does NOT send your images to a conversion service on a remote server.
Your images NEVER leave your device.
I strongly urge you to double check this yourself, and NOT TAKE MY WORD FOR IT.
I do log some usage data on the server through two analytics systems: my own custom converter analytics, and a self-hosted Umami instance for general site analytics.
I log that data so I can tell:
- Whether the converter works, if it is being used by anyone at all, and if it fails, where it fails.
- If the converter is worth me paying the annual domain cost to keep running for everyone, for free, for the next 10 years or so.
- If the traffic is from real people or bots.
- If there is something I can do to improve the converter.
Analytics collected
- Page views, page requests, page URL, page title, hostname, and referrer
- Browser language, screen size, browser, operating system, and device type
- Country, region, or city-level location derived from the request IP by Umami or the proxy in front of it
- Events for adding files, converting, failed conversions, and downloads
- Format, size-bucket, dimension-bucket, and time-bucket data about conversions
- Session and visit analytics generated by Umami, plus the session ID used by my custom analytics
Not collected
- Your files or image contents
- Your file names
- Exact file sizes or exact image dimensions in my long-term rollups
- Any remote upload of your images for conversion
- Accounts tied to your real identity by default
- Accounts or persistent cross-visit profiles
Note: This website uses self-hosted Umami for analytics, which says it does not store the raw IP address, but does use the request IP to derive session and location data.
Note: Cloudflare which is used as a CDN and proxy may have its own access logs.
Retention
- My custom raw analytics events are kept for a short server-side retention window
- My custom longer-term reporting is stored as totals and daily summaries
- Umami keeps its own analytics data separately under the retention rules of that installation
Those two systems are separate, so they do not necessarily keep data for the same amount of time.
Feedback
If you have any feedback or suggestions, please feel free to reach out to me via email.