Privacy Policy

Last updated: 16 July 2026

The short version

You upload a photo, the tool strips its metadata, you download the clean copy. Your upload is deleted the moment processing finishes, and the cleaned copy is deleted from the server within 45 minutes. We don't have accounts, we don't build profiles, and we never look at, share, sell or train anything on your photos.

What we process

• Your photo: held in temporary storage only as long as needed to clean it. The upload is removed immediately after processing; the cleaned copy is wiped within 45 minutes. The metadata that was found is shown to you once and is not stored.
• Basic technical data: IP address and standard request headers, used only for rate-limiting and security. Not linked to your photos, not used for profiling.

What we never do

• No accounts, no e-mail collection, no tracking of who uploaded what.
• No storing, sharing or selling of your photos or their metadata.
• No use of your files to train AI models.

Advertising

Shinobi Tools is free and intended to be kept running by advertising (Google AdSense). Google and its partners may use cookies or similar technologies to show and measure ads; where required, consent is requested through Google's certified consent tools before any such cookies are set. See how Google uses information from partner sites. You can manage ad personalisation at adssettings.google.com.

The sister tools

Pages on this site describe and link to our sister tools (PicReviver, BGNinja, StemGrab, PassportNinja, ScribeGrab, VideoBGNinja, ScanReviver). Each of those sites runs on the same house rules but has its own privacy policy: check the policy on the site you actually upload to.

Your responsibility

Only upload photos you have the right to process. Removing metadata from a file does not change who owns it or what you may do with it.

Contact

Questions about this policy: [email protected] or use the contact form.