Privacy by architecture

Your photo stays with you.

Privacy is the first design requirement: ShutterActuations does not need to receive, store, or retain your photograph or its extracted metadata.

Privacy at a glance

• Photo inspection happens locally on your device
• No photo, thumbnail, filename, or extracted metadata is sent to our servers
• No accounts, advertising scripts, or application-set tracking cookies
• Sensitive metadata is labeled and excluded from bulk copy by default

What happens when you select a file

Your browser gives this page temporary, local access to the file you choose. The metadata readers inspect that file inside your browser. Selecting a file is not an upload.

Photo data we do not receive

• Photos, previews, filenames, or extracted metadata
• GPS coordinates, camera serial numbers, or author information
• User accounts, profiles, or saved analysis history
• Saved searches, analysis history, or behavioral profiles

Local processing modules

The fast metadata reader loads with the interface. If you choose Check shutter count, your browser downloads an additional WebAssembly processing module from this website. Only the reader software is downloaded; your photograph and extracted metadata are not attached to that request. The module may remain in your browser’s cache to make later checks faster.

Website delivery and analytics requests

Like every website, the hosting network receives technical request information needed to deliver pages and protect the service, such as an IP address, browser user agent, requested URL, timestamp, and security signals. Infrastructure providers may retain limited operational or security logs under their own policies.

ShutterActuations currently uses Cloudflare Web Analytics for aggregate website usage and performance measurement. Cloudflare may load its analytics script and receive ordinary page and performance telemetry. This traffic is separate from the checker: the selected photo, filename, and extracted camera or shutter metadata are not attached to analytics requests.

Sensitive fields

Location, ownership, authorship, copyright, and device-serial fields are visibly identified. Bulk copy and JSON export exclude them by default unless you change that setting.

Data retention

The current analysis lives only in the open page’s memory. ShutterActuations does not save it to local storage or an account. Resetting the tool, closing the tab, or navigating away releases the selected file and its results; ordinary browser caching may retain only website code and the optional reader module.

Contact

Questions about this privacy design can be sent to our official public contact: contact@shutteractuations.com. Start with a description of your concern rather than a private photo.

Contact details updated: 15 September 2026. Local-processing and analytics practices are unchanged.