Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how Valnovo OÜ (Narva mnt 7-557, 10117 Tallinn, Estonia), the operator of ImgCompliance, collects and uses personal information when you use imgcompliance.com.

1. Information we collect

• Information you provide: your email address, the website URL you submit for scanning, and — if you request a receipt — billing details (name/company, address, optional tax ID).
• Scan data: the results of the automated scan (image URLs found on the scanned website, risk classifications, matched web sources).
• Technical data: a salted hash of your IP address (we never store the raw IP) used for abuse prevention and free-scan limits.
• Payment data: payments are processed by Stripe. We receive confirmation of payment and a transaction reference; we never see or store your card details.
• Cookies and analytics: essential cookies for operating the site, and — only with your consent — analytics and advertising cookies (see our Cookie Policy).

Free image copyright checker. When you enter an image address in the image checker, we download that image, read its metadata (such as EXIF/IPTC copyright fields) and send it to the Google Cloud Vision API for a reverse image search. We keep a technical result linked to a fingerprint of the image for up to 14 days to answer repeat requests faster. To prevent abuse, we store a truncated, salted hash of your IP address for 24 hours.

We also log each check without your IP address: the image address you entered, the result, the time, and how you found us (as described below for scans). We use this to understand and improve the image checker and delete these entries after 12 months.

How you found us. When you start a scan, we store with it the website you came from (domain name only, e.g. "google.com"), the page on our site where you arrived, campaign parameters (UTM) if your link contained them, and your browser's preferred language. No cookies are set and nothing is stored on your device for this. We use it to understand which channels bring visitors to our service. It is deleted together with the scan.

2. How we use information

• To run the scan and deliver your results and report.
• To process payments and issue receipts.
• To provide customer support.
• To send a small number of transactional and reminder emails about a scan you started (you can opt out at any time via the one-click unsubscribe link in every such email).
• To prevent abuse and enforce free-scan limits.
• With your consent, to measure our advertising and analyze site usage.

3. Service providers (sub-processors)

• Stripe – payment processing.
• Resend – transactional email delivery.
• Google Cloud Vision – reverse image search used during scans (receives the images found on the scanned website, not your personal data).
• Hetzner – server hosting in the European Union.
• With consent: Meta (advertising measurement) and Microsoft Clarity (anonymized usage analytics).

4. Where data is processed

Our servers are located in the European Union. If you are in the United States, your data is transferred to and processed in the EU, where it is subject to EU data protection law (GDPR), which provides a high standard of protection.

5. Retention

Scan data and reports are retained so you can access your results; report download links expire after 7 days. Billing records are retained as required by accounting law. You can request deletion of your data at any time (see Section 6).

6. Your rights

You can request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal information, object to its processing, and request a copy in a portable format. To exercise any of these rights, email support@imgcompliance.com.

US state privacy rights

If you are a resident of California, Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, or another US state with a comprehensive privacy law, you have the right to know what personal information we collect, to request its deletion, and to non-discrimination for exercising these rights. We do not sell personal information and do not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising except via the optional, consent-based advertising cookies described in our Cookie Policy (which you can decline or withdraw at any time).

7. Marketing emails

If you start a free scan and do not purchase the report, we may send up to two reminder emails about your results. Every such email contains a one-click unsubscribe link (CAN-SPAM compliant). Unsubscribing stops all reminder emails to your address.

8. Security

We use industry-standard measures to protect your data, including TLS encryption in transit, hashed IP addresses, and access controls. No method of transmission or storage is 100% secure, but we work to protect your information appropriately.

9. Children

The Service is intended for business use and not directed at children under 16. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

10. Changes and contact

We may update this policy; the "Last updated" date reflects the latest revision. Questions: support@imgcompliance.com