Privacy

Your video is not uploaded

The file you choose is read and converted on your device with your browser's built-in video APIs (WebCodecs), inside a background worker. It is never sent to VidFold or to any other server.

By default, VidFold doesn't copy the original file's metadata (such as location, device model, titles and dates) into the exported file. You can turn this off under Output settings → More options.

Temporary files in your browser

While converting, the exported file is written to your browser's private storage for this site (the Origin Private File System), in a folder named vidfold. Other websites cannot read it. The file is deleted when you choose Convert another video, remove the selected file, or start a new conversion.

If you close the tab before doing one of those, the converted file stays in that storage until you next open VidFold, which deletes files left behind by closed tabs. You can also remove it at any time by clearing this site's data in your browser settings. Previews and timeline thumbnails are kept only in memory and disappear when you leave the page.

Analytics, only if you agree

VidFold has no sign-up and runs no advertising. On your first visit it asks whether it may use Google Analytics. If you accept, Google Analytics sets its own cookies (named _ga) and receives details such as the pages you open, your approximate location, browser and device type. It never receives your videos, their names or their contents. See Google's privacy policy.

If you choose Essential only, or don't answer, no Google script is loaded and no Google Analytics cookies are set. Using the site does not opt you into optional analytics. You can change your answer at any time with Cookie settings at the bottom of the page. Fonts and code are served from this site. The mini games do not save anything.

Essential browser storage is always active and does not require an Accept click. It supports local processing and remembers your privacy choice. So VidFold can start instantly and work offline, your browser keeps a copy of VidFold's own code, fonts and icons in this site's cache storage. Your analytics answer, and a dismissed suggestion to install the app, are remembered in this site's local storage. Neither contains your videos or anything about them.

If you share a video to the installed app from your phone's share menu, the video is handed over on your device: it is held for a moment in this site's cache storage and deleted as soon as VidFold opens it. It is not uploaded.

Server logs

The server records request time, IP address, browser type, page path, response status, referral host and launch campaign tags to operate the site and understand traffic. Cookies, full referral URLs, arbitrary query strings and request bodies are not logged in these application access logs. Access logs can include bots and do not identify unique people. Daily application log archives are cleaned up after approximately 14 days. Recent container diagnostic logs rotate by size (up to three 10 MB files). These logs never contain your video.

Basic anonymous usage totals

When online, the app sends same-site counters for page opens/leaves, file selection, conversion starts/completions/errors/cancellations, download requests and save results. These counters send only an event name: no video, filename, settings, cookie, persistent identifier or user profile. Their separate event logs contain only time, event name and response status. They cannot follow an individual or match their conversion to a visit. Optional Google Analytics provides separate reports only after you allow it.

Counters are best effort: offline use, blockers and abrupt tab closure may be missed. A download request does not prove that a file was saved. A completed save event is recorded only after the chosen file has been written. Daily event log archives use the same cleanup as access log archives.

Changes

If VidFold starts collecting anything new, this page will be updated first and the date above will change.