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.
Your selected photo and its metadata stay inside your browser tab. They are never uploaded to ShutterActuations.
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, analytics, advertising scripts, or 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.
Ordinary website 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. ShutterActuations does not add analytics or advertising trackers and does not use these requests to build visitor profiles. Infrastructure providers may retain limited operational or security logs under their own policies.
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 privacy@shutteractuations.com.
Policy updated: 28 August 2026