Overview

Save Image As Type is a browser extension that converts images to different formats (JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, PDF) directly in your browser - images on a web page, and files already on your own computer. We are committed to protecting your privacy. This policy explains what data we do and do not collect.

Data we do NOT collect

Images: We never collect, store, upload, or transmit any images you convert. All image conversion happens 100% locally in your browser using the Canvas API.
Full URLs: We never transmit the full URL of an image you convert, or of the page you're on, to us or anyone else. If you turn on the optional local save history described below, it stores full image URLs - but only on your device, never anywhere else. (The one exception, a bare hostname rather than a URL, is described under "Data we DO collect" below.)
Browsing history: We have no access to your browser history.
Personal information: We do not collect names, email addresses, or any personally identifiable information (PII).
Extension cookies: The extension itself does not use cookies. (This website uses Google Analytics cookies, see below.)

Stored only on your device

Local save history. This is off by default - a fresh install of the extension keeps no record of what you save. If you turn it on in Settings, the extension adds one entry per save to a log kept only on your device: the image's full URL (so you can find and re-download it later), the output format, the file size, the time, and a reference to your browser's own download record (so the saved file can be revealed in your file manager). This log is never transmitted anywhere and never synced. You can clear it at any time, and turning the setting off erases whatever is already stored.

Saving what is on your screen

The extension can photograph the tab you are looking at, but only when you ask it to: right-click the page background and choose “Save visible area as...”, “Save whole page as...” or “Save region as...”. A whole-page capture scrolls the page and photographs it screen by screen, which is why it warns you before it starts; a region capture photographs the tab once, after you have drawn the rectangle. Nothing is captured in the background, on any other tab, or without that click. The picture is joined and converted on your device by the same local Canvas code every other save uses, and written to your Downloads folder or to the folder you chose. It is never transmitted, and a capture has no address of its own, so there is no hostname to report even if the conversion fails.

The folder you choose

You can pick a folder for saved files instead of using Downloads. Your browser hands the extension a reference to that one folder and nothing else - it is not a path we can read, it is not a list of what the folder contains, and it gives no access to anything outside it. The reference is stored by your browser on your device so the choice survives a restart, and it is never transmitted, never synced, and never included in any analytics event. Clearing the folder in Settings discards it. Browsers deliberately drop the permission behind it when you restart, so the extension asks for one click to restore it and saves fall back to Downloads until you give it.

The local failure log

Settings can show you a log of recent failures so you can copy it into a bug report. It records failures only, never successful saves. Every address in it is reduced to a bare hostname before it is written, exactly as the analytics events are. It lives in your browser’s session storage, so it never reaches your disk and it is gone when the browser closes. Nothing transmits it: you copy the text and decide where it goes. It exists because the Firefox build carries no analytics at all, so those installs would otherwise have no way to tell us what broke.

Files you convert from your own computer

The converter page lets you drop in files that are already on your machine, or paste one straight from your clipboard. Those files are read in the page, converted by the same local Canvas code, and saved straight back to your Downloads folder or the folder you chose. Nothing is uploaded - there is no server involved at any point. The file’s name and the folder it came from are never transmitted, and a failed conversion on that page sends nothing at all.

Data we DO collect

Anonymous usage analytics. To understand which features are used and to find and fix bugs, the extension and this website send anonymous event data to Google Analytics (GA4); this website additionally reports page views to Ahrefs Web Analytics, described under “Third-party services” below. Every event carries only a random, anonymous identifier plus your browser, your operating system (“mac”, “win”, “linux” - the family, not the version) and the extension version - never your identity. On a normal conversion, that event records which output format was chosen and whether it succeeded.

When a conversion fails, the event includes a bit more, so we can find and fix the sites that break it. This is the complete list of what's added:

image_host - the bare hostname of the image, for example cdn.example.com. Never the path, query string, or fragment, and never sent at all for data: or blob: images.
error_message - a diagnostic message, cut to 100 characters, with any URL inside it replaced by its bare hostname (and any file:// path replaced with the literal text file:[redacted]).
error_name, http_status, and source_format - the kind of error, the HTTP status code if there was one, and the original image's format.
url_scheme - how the image was addressed: https, http, data, blob, file, an extension URL, or canvas for an image with no address at all. One word, never a URL. It exists because a data: or blob: image has no hostname and no HTTP response, so without it those failures are indistinguishable from missing data.

We never send your images, the full URL of an image or the page you're on, page contents, or your browsing history. Image conversion always happens 100% locally in your browser.

Opt out anytime: in the extension, open Settings → Privacy and turn off "Send anonymous usage analytics." All telemetry stops immediately. The Firefox build ships with no analytics code at all - there is nothing to opt out of.

Permissions

The extension requests the following browser permissions:

contextMenus: Adds the right-click menu items. This is the entire interface.
downloads: Writes the converted file to your device.
activeTab: Identifies the image you acted on, and photographs the visible tab when you choose "Save visible area as...".
storage: Keeps your settings, and the optional local save history if you turn it on.
notifications: Tells you when a save fails, or that the image looked like a lazy-load placeholder.
clipboardWrite: Backs "Copy image as PNG". It does not read your clipboard.
offscreen: Creates the hidden canvas that does the encode. (Chrome and Edge only)
Host permissions: To fetch images from any website for conversion (images are never sent anywhere)

One clarification on storage, because the distinction is easy to get wrong: your settings are kept in your browser’s synced storage, so if you are signed in to Chrome or Firefox and have extension sync switched on, your browser carries them between your own devices. That is your browser doing it, not us - the settings never reach a server of ours. The save history described above is different: it is in device-local storage, which is never synced by anything.

Third-party services

Google Analytics (GA4), operated by Google LLC, processes the anonymous usage analytics described above. See Google's Privacy Policy. No other third party receives any data from the extension, and your images never leave your device.

Ahrefs Web Analytics, operated by Ahrefs Pte. Ltd., measures traffic to this website - and only this website; the extension never contacts it. It is cookieless and sets no identifier of any kind, so it cannot follow you between visits or across sites. Each page view reports the address of the page on this site, its title, the address you arrived from, your browser's language and your screen size. It also records when a link is clicked or a form is submitted - the address of the link or the form, never anything you typed into it. See Ahrefs' Privacy Policy.

Cloudflare Turnstile, operated by Cloudflare, Inc., protects this website's contact and uninstall forms from automated spam. It runs only on those two pages, and only to tell a person from a bot - it does not track you across sites and sets no advertising cookies. See Cloudflare's Privacy Policy.

Changes to this policy

If we make changes to this privacy policy, we will update the "Last updated" date at the top of this page. Significant changes will be noted in the extension's changelog.