Privacy Policy

Summary

Videos you compress on freecompress.video are processed entirely inside your browser and are never sent to us or anyone else. To know whether the site is useful, we count visits and finished compressions with a simple counter that sets no cookies and stores no IP addresses. The site uses Google Analytics and Google AdSense, which are run by Google and may set cookies. Your settings are remembered in your browser. We do not require an account and do not sell personal data. The only personal information we may receive is what you choose to send us — for example an email address in a feedback message. This policy is effective 2026-11-10.

Your videos

The compressor runs entirely in your browser. When you choose a video, your browser reads it from your disk, your device re-encodes it, and the result is offered for download — no network request carries the video or any part of it. You can check this in your browser's developer tools (Network tab) while a compression runs. Because nothing is uploaded, we cannot see, keep, recover or share your videos. File names and contents are never reported; the page only counts that a video was loaded, that compression started, that it finished and that the result was downloaded — and, if a compression doesn't finish, which step it stopped at and a general reason such as the file extension, video codec type or browser family (see below).

Stored in your browser

The site keeps a few small items in your browser's local storage: the compression settings you last used, your light or dark theme, and your language choice. If you leave the page before downloading a result, the most recent compressed video is also kept in your browser's private file storage (Origin Private File System) for up to 7 days, so you can still download it next time. It is deleted when you download it, choose "Discard", compress another video, or after 7 days. None of this is sent to us or used for tracking, and you can clear all of it at any time in your browser's site-data settings.

Our visit counter

The site has its own simple counter, run on Cloudflare, that records page views per page per day, and how many videos were loaded, how many compressions were started and finished, and how many results were downloaded; for compressions that don't finish, it also records the step where they stopped and a general reason category (file extension, video codec type or browser family) — never file names. To count unique visitors per day, it combines your IP address and browser identifier with a secret value and the date and keeps only a one-way code derived from them. The IP address itself is not stored, and the code changes every day, so visits on different days are not linked. Alongside the code it keeps your approximate country (as reported by Cloudflare) and whether the device is a computer, phone or tablet. It sets no cookies and never records your videos' file names or contents. Known search-engine crawlers are not counted.

Feedback and email

If you use the feedback form, we store your message together with the page and language it was sent from, your approximate country, device type and the daily code described above. An email address is stored only if you enter one, and is used only to reply to you. If you email us directly, your message stays in our mailbox. We use these messages only to answer you and improve the site, and delete them on request. To block spam, the form may be checked by Cloudflare Turnstile, which processes browser signals under Cloudflare's privacy policy.

Accounts and payments

You can compress videos without an account. If you sign in or buy Plus, we store your email address, when the account was created and last used, and your plan status. Signing in sets one cookie that keeps you signed in for up to 30 days; it is not used for advertising or tracking. Sign-in codes are sent to your email address through Cloudflare's email service.

Payments are handled by Stripe. We never see or store your card number; Stripe tells us your email address, what you bought and whether a payment succeeded, and keeps its own records under its privacy policy (stripe.com/privacy). You can delete your account at any time on the account page: this removes the account data we hold and cancels any subscription. Stripe keeps payment records for as long as the law requires.

Analytics (Google Analytics 4)

We use Google Analytics 4 to measure page views, which features are used, approximate country and device type, and how visitors arrive. Google Analytics sets cookies (such as _ga) and collects the page URL, referrer, browser and device information and a pseudonymous client identifier. IP addresses are not stored by Google Analytics 4. The data is processed by Google LLC under Google's privacy policy (policies.google.com/privacy). You can opt out with the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on (tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout) or by blocking cookies for this site.

Advertising (Google AdSense)

This site displays advertisements served by Google AdSense. Google and its partners use cookies — including the DoubleClick cookie — to serve ads based on your prior visits to this and other websites and to measure ad performance. This may include personalised advertising based on your interests. You can opt out of personalised advertising at Google's Ads Settings (google.com/settings/ads) and, for many other ad networks, at aboutads.info/choices or youronlinechoices.eu. Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits; a list of Google's advertising partners and their policies is published by Google.

Visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland are asked for consent through a Google-certified consent message before any advertising cookies are set, and can change their choice at any time through the privacy-settings link that message provides. Where consent is declined, only non-personalised ads, which rely on the page's context rather than tracking, are shown.

Hosting

The site is served by Cloudflare's network. Cloudflare processes connection data (IP address, browser identifier, requested address) to deliver the site and protect it from abuse. Apart from the counter and feedback described above, we keep no request logs.

Children

The site is a general-audience utility and does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 (or the applicable age in your country). The compressor itself collects no personal information; analytics and advertising are governed by Google's policies, which include protections for children's data.

Your rights and choices

You can ask us to delete any feedback or email you sent by writing to support@freecompress.video. The visit counter keeps only a daily code that we cannot match to a particular person, so there is no record there that we could find, show or delete for you. Requests about data processed by Google Analytics or Google AdSense should go to Google; the opt-out links above take effect immediately. If you are in the EEA, the UK, California or another place with data-protection rights, those rights apply to us and to the third parties named here. You can block or delete cookies at any time; the compressor keeps working.

Changes and contact

This policy is updated when what the site measures or its advertising setup changes; the effective date at the top is revised and material changes are noted here. Questions about this policy can be sent to support@freecompress.video.