Terms of use

What the service is

ImageForge is a set of static web pages and an application that runs inside your browser. It converts, edits and compresses images on your own device. There is no account, no payment, no subscription and no feature held back behind one.

Because the processing happens on your device, ImageForge is closer to a program you run than to a service that acts on your behalf.

Your files remain yours

No rights are claimed over anything you open, edit or export. Your files never reach any server belonging to this project, so they could not be used, stored or inspected even in principle.

The images you produce are yours to do with as you wish. No attribution is required.

What you may use it for

You may use ImageForge for anything lawful, personal or commercial, without asking. There is no restriction on the number of files, the volume of use, or whether the output is used commercially.

What you may not use it for

You must have the right to use the images you process, and you must not use the tool in connection with unlawful material or unlawful purposes.

This is stated because it is true and because it matters, not because it can be enforced: the processing happens entirely on your device, so there is no way to observe what anyone converts, and therefore no way to intervene. The responsibility is yours alone.

You must also not attempt to disrupt the site for others, for example by attacking the servers that host it.

No warranty

The tool is provided as it is, without warranty of any kind. Image processing is intricate, and results depend on your browser, your device, and the files themselves.

Keep your originals. Do not rely on ImageForge as the only copy of anything that matters to you.

Errors, damaged files and failed conversions

Conversions can fail. A file may be damaged, may use a variant of a format that is not supported, or may be too large for the memory available to your browser.

When that happens the tool says so, and it tries to say which of those it was rather than blaming the file by default. Every produced file is checked against the signature of the format it claims to be, and a result that does not match is never offered for download. Even so, no guarantee is made that any particular file will convert, or that a conversion will preserve every characteristic of the original.

Technical limits are real limits

There are no artificial restrictions, but there are genuine ones. A browser has finite memory, and a sufficiently large image or batch will exhaust it. Some formats can be read but not written. Some variants of a format are not supported at all.

These limits are documented and reported honestly rather than presented as reasons to pay.

Availability

The site may be unavailable at times, may change, and may be withdrawn. No level of service is promised and none should be assumed.

Since the tool runs in your browser, an interruption to the site does not affect work already loaded in an open tab.

Suspension of access

There are no accounts, so there is nothing to suspend. If the site were being abused in a way that harmed its availability for others, the hosting provider could restrict the traffic responsible, in line with its own terms.

Third-party software

ImageForge is built on open source components, each under its own licence, including image codecs distributed under Apache-2.0, MIT, BSD and LGPL-3.0 terms. They are listed with their versions and licences in the THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES file distributed with the source.

HEIC support uses libheif, and HEIC images are encoded with HEVC, which is covered by patents administered through licensing pools. No licence for those patents has been obtained or evaluated by this project. This is documented rather than glossed over, and it is one of the matters flagged for review before any commercial launch.

Changes to these terms

These terms may change as the project does. The current version is always the one on this page, and any change significant enough to affect how you may use the site will be reflected here before it takes effect.

There is no mailing list to notify, because no addresses are collected.

Governing law

ImageForge is run from Uruguay by an individual, not a company, and Uruguayan law is what applies to it.

Nothing in these terms is intended to remove any right that consumer or data protection law gives you and that cannot be waived by agreement.

Contact

Questions about these terms can be sent to nimajneb.zap.41@gmail.com.