Privacy

Last updated 7 October 2026

FitFileSize shrinks files that are often personal: passports, bank statements, certificates. This page says exactly what happens to them.

Your files

• Your file is uploaded to our server, compressed there, and used for nothing else.
• For a big photo and a small size limit, your browser first makes a smaller copy, which is what gets uploaded. That copy carries no camera details (EXIF data such as location).
• If you chose a size before uploading, we start compressing to it while you look at the size options, so the result is ready sooner. Nothing is kept or shared because of that.
• The original is deleted 5 minutes after you press Compress and the compression finishes. It is kept that long only so "Try another size" works without a second upload.
• The compressed file is deleted 10 minutes after you press Compress and the compression finishes.
• A file you never press Compress for, or that never finishes compressing, is deleted after at most 30 minutes. "Cancel" deletes it straight away.
• "Delete now" removes both files immediately.
• While a job exists we also store its filename, size and page count so the page can show progress. That record is deleted on the same schedule as the files.

Abuse protection

To keep the service free for everyone, each visitor can upload 30 files and run 100 compressions an hour. To count that, we keep your IP address (or, for IPv6, your network prefix) in a counter that is deleted automatically after at most one hour. It is not logged or used for anything else.

No accounts

There is no sign-up and no login. We do not ask for your name or email address.

Analytics

We count visits to learn which pages people use and how fast the site loads. None of these tools set cookies or store anything in your browser.

• Vercel Web Analytics and Speed Insights: page views, referrers and load times.
• Cairn, our own analytics: page views, with IP addresses hashed using a key that changes every day, so visits cannot be linked across days.
• Daily usage counts on our server: how many files were uploaded and downloaded each day, whether from this site, the API or the MCP server, whether they were PDFs or images, which page of this site they came from, and whether the result fit the limit. These are totals only, with no filename, file size, IP address or anything else about you or your file.

Hosting

The website runs on Vercel and files are compressed on our server at OVHcloud in Canada, reached through Cloudflare; like any web host, they may keep short-lived request logs.

Tips

Leaving a tip is optional. The tip link takes you to a checkout page run by Stripe, which handles the payment and your card details under Stripe's privacy policy. We never see your card number, and tipping is not connected to any file you uploaded.

Contact

Questions or requests: open an issue on GitHub.