Privacy Policy

Last Updated: [07-10-2026]

This policy explains what personal data DeleteFootprints.ai (https://deletefootprints.ai, "the site") handles, why, and the choices you have. The site is run by Ipathy Tech Solutions, 3-29, Khajipet, Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh, India, 516203 ("we", "us", "our"). We decide how this data is used (the "controller" under the GDPR, the "data fiduciary" under India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023).

In short

  • The site has no accounts. We never ask for your name, email address or phone number.
  • Files you upload are processed on our server and deleted automatically within 30 minutes. We do not keep, share or look at them, and we never use them to train AI.
  • Text Cleaner runs in your browser. Your text is never uploaded.
  • We use Google Analytics to measure visits and Google AdSense to show ads. Both use cookies. In the EEA, the UK and Switzerland, Google asks for your consent before AdSense uses advertising cookies.
  • We use Google's advertising tools to show ads for our mobile apps to people who visited the site.

1. Files and details you give us

Uploaded files. When you use one of our image tools, your browser sends the file to our server over an encrypted connection (HTTPS). The server reads, removes or writes metadata as you ask. It keeps the original and the processed copy only so you can download the result, and deletes both automatically within 30 minutes.

Metadata can contain personal information, such as the GPS location where a photo was taken, camera serial numbers, names or dates. We process it only to show it to you or to change it as you ask.

Values you type in. In Edit Metadata and Geo Tag Photo, the values you enter (for example an author name or coordinates) are sent with your file so the server can write them into it, and are deleted with the file.

Text Cleaner. Text Cleaner works entirely in your browser. Your text is never sent to our server and we never save it.

Emails you send us. If you email us, we use your address and message only to reply, and keep them only as long as we need to deal with your request.

2. Data collected automatically

Server logs. Like every website, our server records each request it receives: your IP address, the date and time, the address of the page or file requested, and your browser's user-agent string. We use these records to run the site, fix errors and stop abuse.

  • Web server logs: kept 14 days.
  • Security log: when a request is refused or looks abusive, we record the IP address, user agent and reason. Kept 14 days.
  • Rate limiting: we hold your IP address for up to 10 minutes to count your requests and uploads, so no single visitor can overload the service.
  • Error reports: if a script on a page fails, your browser sends us the error message, the page address (without its query string) and your browser's user agent, but not your IP address.

Analytics and advertising: see sections 3 and 4. Cookies and browser storage: see our Cookie Policy.

3. Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics 4 to understand how the site is used: which pages and tools are visited, which tool features are used, the kind of device and browser, the approximate location (country or city, derived from your IP address) and how you arrived. Google Analytics sets cookies (_ga, _ga_*) to recognise a returning browser. Google Analytics 4 does not log or store IP addresses.

  • We never send Google Analytics your files, their metadata, your text, or any name, email address or phone number.
  • On result pages we strip session details from the page address before it is reported.
  • We do not use the Google Analytics User-ID feature, and we do not send Google user-provided data such as email addresses.
  • Google Analytics keeps this data for up to 14 months, then deletes it.

Google processes this data under its own terms: see How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services. You can block Google Analytics on every site with the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

4. Advertising

Ads on the site. We show ads through Google AdSense on most pages (never on these legal pages). Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your previous visits to this site and other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies lets it and its partners serve ads to you based on your visits to this site and/or other sites on the internet. Other ad vendors may also serve ads through Google.

Ads for our apps. We use Google Analytics advertising features (Google signals, ads personalisation and remarketing audiences) and link Google Analytics to our Google Ads account. This lets us show ads for our iOS and Android apps on Google's network to people who visited the site. If you are signed in to a Google account with ad personalisation on, Google may link your visit to that account across your devices. We see only aggregated reports, never who you are.

Consent. In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, a consent message from Google (a Google-certified consent management platform) asks for your choice before AdSense uses advertising cookies. You can change your choice at any time through the "Privacy and cookie settings" link at the bottom of the page.

Opting out.

5. Other services your browser contacts

  • OpenStreetMap (Geo Tag Photo): the map and place search load from OpenStreetMap Foundation servers. They receive your IP address, the map area you view and any place name you search. See the OpenStreetMap Foundation privacy policy.
  • YouTube (Geo Tag Photo): the help video loads from youtube-nocookie.com only when you press play. Google then receives your IP address and viewing data under the Google Privacy Policy.

6. Why we process your data (legal bases)

For visitors in the EEA and the UK (GDPR and UK GDPR):

  • Your files and the values you type: to provide the service you ask for (Art. 6(1)(b)).
  • Server logs, the security log, rate limiting and error reports: our legitimate interest in running a secure, working site (Art. 6(1)(f)).
  • Google Analytics: our legitimate interest in understanding how the site is used so we can improve it (Art. 6(1)(f)). You can object at any time by blocking Google Analytics (section 3).
  • Advertising cookies: your consent (Art. 6(1)(a)), which you can withdraw at any time.

In India, we process data with your consent or for a legitimate use allowed by the DPDP Act, such as data you give us voluntarily for a stated purpose. Elsewhere, we follow local law.

7. Who receives data

We do not sell personal data for money.

  • DigitalOcean (United States) hosts our server and stores uploads and logs for us.
  • Google provides Analytics, AdSense, Google Ads, the consent message and YouTube.
  • OpenStreetMap Foundation, only when you use the map.
  • Authorities, when the law requires it.
  • A successor business, if the site is sold or merged; this policy would continue to apply to your data.

8. International transfers

We are based in India, our server is in the United States, and Google processes data around the world. Where EU or UK law requires safeguards for these transfers, we rely on our providers' data processing terms, which include the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses.

9. How long we keep data

  • Uploaded files and processed copies: deleted automatically within 30 minutes.
  • Rate-limiting records: up to 10 minutes.
  • Web server logs and the security log: 14 days.
  • Google Analytics: up to 14 months.
  • Emails: as long as we need to deal with your request.
  • Cookies: see the Cookie Policy.

10. Your rights

Depending on where you live, you can:

  • EEA and UK: access, correct or delete your data; restrict or object to its processing; receive it in a portable form; withdraw consent at any time.
  • California: know what personal information we collect and how we use it; delete or correct it; opt out of its "sale" or "sharing"; not be treated differently for using these rights.
  • India: access a summary of your data; correct, complete, update or erase it; have grievances addressed; nominate someone to act for you.

Email info@deletefootprints.ai to use any of these rights. We have no accounts, so to find log entries about you we need the IP address and the approximate time of your visit. We reply within one month.

California "sharing". Using advertising cookies to show personalised ads can count as "sharing" personal information (online identifiers and browsing activity) under the CCPA/CPRA. To opt out, turn off personalised ads in My Ad Center, use the Google Analytics opt-out add-on, block third-party cookies, or email us. We do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of anyone under 16.

Complaints. You can complain to us first. In the EEA, contact your national data protection authority; in the UK, the Information Commissioner's Office; in India, the Data Protection Board of India after our Grievance Officer has responded.

11. Children

The site is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal data from anyone under 13, or under the higher age set by local law (16 in parts of the EU, 18 in India), and we do not knowingly target ads at them. If you believe a child has used the site, contact us and we will delete what we can identify.

12. Security

Every connection to the site is encrypted (HTTPS). Uploads are deleted automatically within 30 minutes, and only our administrators can access server logs. No system is perfectly secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security.

13. Changes to this policy

When we change this policy we update the date at the top. For a significant change we will also post a notice on the site before it takes effect.

14. Governing law

This policy is governed by the laws of India, and disputes fall under the jurisdiction of the courts of Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh, India. This does not take away any protection the law of your country gives you.

15. Contact

Ipathy Tech Solutions

3-29, Khajipet, Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh, India, 516203

Email: info@deletefootprints.ai

Grievance Officer (India): Venkata Rao, info@deletefootprints.ai