Terms of Use
Last updated: 8 October 2026
Ordering online
How you buy. You choose a pass (30 days or 24 hours) and press the buy button. You are sent to our payment provider Stripe, where you enter your e-mail address, choose a payment method, tick the box to accept these terms and ask us to start your pass, and press Pay. The contract is concluded when your payment succeeds; we then show your pass and e-mail you a confirmation.
Correcting mistakes. Before you press Pay, the Stripe page shows what you are buying and the total, and you can change your e-mail address or leave with the back arrow or your browser's back button. Nothing is charged until you press Pay.
Storage and access. We keep a record of your purchase (order reference, amount, date and time) in our payment and pass records, but we do not store the concluded contract as a separate document for you to retrieve. Your confirmation e-mail contains the order reference, the price, the key terms and the withdrawal information: please keep it. These terms stay available on this page, and you can ask us at info@shinobitools.com if you need them again.
Language. The contract can be concluded in English.
The service
ShinobiTools offers a free online photo metadata remover and acts as the home page for a family of free sister tools that live on their own sites. Using the metadata remover requires no account. Supported formats and size limits are stated next to the tool; files are processed automatically and deleted as described in the Privacy Policy · Refund Policy.
Fair use
- Only upload files you own or have the right to process.
- Don't use the service for anything unlawful, and don't attempt to disrupt, overload or reverse-engineer it.
- Automated bulk use that degrades the service for others may be rate-limited or blocked.
Your files, your rights
You keep every right to the photos you upload and download. We claim no ownership, no licence beyond what is technically needed to process the file, and we don't keep copies beyond the deletion times in our privacy policy.
No warranty
The service is provided "as is", free of charge, without warranties of any kind. We work hard to remove all removable metadata (and the tool shows you what it found and removed), but you are responsible for checking that the result meets your needs before sharing a file: especially where privacy is critical. The service may be changed, interrupted or discontinued at any time.
Liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any damages arising from the use of, or inability to use, this free service.
Sister sites
Links to PicReviver, BGNinja, StemGrab, PassportNinja, ScribeGrab, VideoBGNinja and ScanReviver lead to separate sites with their own terms; those terms apply there.
The pass
Most of ShinobiTools costs nothing and always will. On our sister tools you can additionally buy a pass: €5 for 30 days or €3 for 24 hours, a one-off purchase and not a subscription, which raises the free limits on that tool for the period you bought. Buying a pass doesn't create an account: it's tied to the browser you bought it in, the same way the rest of the site works without sign-up. See the Refund Policy for what happens if a pass doesn't work as described and how billing is handled.
No accounts, on purpose
There is nothing to sign up for anywhere on ShinobiTools, including on the paid pass. That's a design choice, not a missing feature: an account would mean storing an e-mail address and a login for a tool people mostly use once or twice, which is more data than the job needs. It also means there's no lookup of "your" past files, because there is no "your" to look them up under: each upload is anonymous and temporary, exactly as the Privacy Policy describes.
Changes to these terms
We may update this page as the service changes: a new tool, a changed limit, a clarified rule. The version published here is always the one that applies. We don't keep a change log, but nothing on this page is applied retroactively against you; a change takes effect from the date it's published, going forward.
Contact
Questions: info@shinobitools.com or the contact form.