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Privacy Policy — Image Toolkit

Last updated: 2026-05-16 Developer: Samy (mdigisamy@gmail.com)

Image Toolkit is a Chromium browser extension that lets you (1) re-encode any image on a web page as PNG, JPG, or WEBP and save it locally, and (2) open a reverse image search on the engine of your choice.

What data the extension handles

  • Image content (website content). When you right-click an image and pick "Save image as…", the extension fetches the image bytes in your browser, re-encodes them locally using OffscreenCanvas, and triggers a download to your own machine. The image is never sent to the developer.
  • Image URL or image bytes — only when YOU pick a search engine. When you pick "Search image with…" → an engine, a new tab opens to that engine's reverse-image URL with the image URL (or, for Pinterest and 123rf, the image bytes uploaded to their public visual-search APIs). This transmission goes directly to the engine you selected. It is governed by that engine's privacy policy, not by Image Toolkit.
  • Your settings (which engines are enabled, their order, JPG/WEBP quality, JPG flatten color). Stored in chrome.storage.sync, which Chrome syncs across devices signed into the same Google account. The developer does not have access to this data.

What the extension does NOT do

  • It does not collect personal information, browsing history, location, financial information, health data, authentication credentials, or communications.
  • It does not run analytics, telemetry, fingerprinting, or any tracking.
  • It does not send any data to servers operated by the developer. The developer operates no servers for this extension.
  • It does not sell or transfer user data to third parties.
  • It does not use data for purposes unrelated to its single purpose (saving images and opening reverse-image searches).
  • It does not use data to determine creditworthiness or for lending purposes.

Permissions and why they are required

Permission Why
contextMenus Add the right-click items
downloads Save the re-encoded image to your Downloads folder
storage Remember your toggles, engine order, and quality
offscreen Run canvas re-encoding outside the service worker
scripting Reserved for the v0.2 upload flow
activeTab Identify the image you right-clicked
clipboardWrite Optional "copy image" action
<all_urls> host Fetch image bytes from any site you visit

Third parties

When you click a reverse-search engine, your request goes to that engine (Google Lens, Yandex, Bing, TinEye, Pinterest, Adobe Stock, Freepik, 123rf, and others you may add). Their handling of your request is covered by their own privacy policies.

Contact

Questions: mdigisamy@gmail.com

Changes

Material changes to this policy will be published at the same URL with an updated "Last updated" date.

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