Cookie Policy
CompressImage.ca uses only limited cookies for basic website operation. Your images are processed locally in your browser and do not depend on cookies.
Effective date: June 2026
1. What cookies are
Cookies are small text files stored by your browser when you visit a website. They can help a website remember a session, protect forms, store preferences, measure usage, or support advertising.
Similar technologies, such as local storage, session storage, IndexedDB, pixels, and browser cache, can also store information or help a website function. This policy refers to cookies and similar technologies together where appropriate.
2. Our cookie approach
CompressImage.ca is designed to use as little browser tracking technology as possible. The image tools run locally in your browser, so cookies are not needed to upload, process, compress, resize, convert, crop, rotate, or download your images.
- Your images are not stored in cookies.
- Your images are not uploaded to our servers.
- Our functional cookies do not give us access to your images.
- Our functional cookies are not used by us to build advertising profiles about you.
3. Cookies we set directly
CompressImage.ca runs on the Laravel framework. Laravel may set small functional cookies that are needed for security, form protection, and basic session handling.
| Cookie | Type | Purpose | Typical duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| XSRF-TOKEN | Strictly necessary | Helps protect forms, such as the contact form, against cross-site request forgery. | Session or short-term |
| Laravel session cookie | Strictly necessary | Maintains a basic browser session so the website can operate safely. The exact cookie name may vary depending on configuration. | Session or short-term |
These cookies identify a browser session to the website framework. They are not intended to identify you as a person, and they are not used by us for advertising, profiling, or selling personal information.
4. Browser storage used by image tools
Some tools may use temporary browser memory, browser cache, local storage, session storage, IndexedDB, or similar local browser storage while processing files or remembering non-sensitive tool preferences.
This local browser storage stays on your device and is controlled by your browser. Clearing your browser data may remove saved preferences, temporary tool state, or cached website files.
5. Advertising cookies
We may display advertising through third-party advertising providers, including Google AdSense, to help keep CompressImage.ca free. When ads are shown, advertising providers may set or read their own cookies, pixels, device identifiers, or similar technologies.
These technologies may be used by advertising providers to serve ads, measure ad performance, prevent fraud, limit how often you see an ad, personalize ads where permitted, or show contextual ads based on the page you are viewing.
Third-party advertising cookies are controlled by the advertising provider, not by CompressImage.ca. However, because your images are processed locally in your browser, advertising providers do not receive your image files from CompressImage.ca.
You can manage personalized advertising through Google Ads Settings. Canadian users may also use AdChoices tools in Canada to manage interest-based advertising choices from participating companies.
6. Analytics cookies
CompressImage.ca may use privacy-conscious analytics to understand aggregate usage, diagnose technical issues, and improve the website. If analytics cookies or similar technologies are used, they may collect limited technical information, such as page views, browser type, device type, approximate location, referring page, and interaction events.
Analytics, if used, does not give us access to your images because your images are not uploaded to us. If we add analytics that materially changes how cookies or similar technologies are used, this policy will be updated.
7. Third-party links and embedded content
CompressImage.ca may link to third-party websites, advertisers, documentation, or services. Third-party websites may use their own cookies and tracking technologies when you visit them. We do not control cookies set by third-party websites outside CompressImage.ca.
8. How to control cookies
Most browsers let you view, block, delete, or limit cookies through their settings. You can usually delete cookies for a specific website or block third-party cookies across many websites.
Blocking our strictly necessary functional cookies may prevent some website features, such as the contact form, from working correctly. However, the image tools themselves are designed to run locally in your browser and generally do not require cookies to process images.
9. Clearing browser storage
You can clear cookies, cache, local storage, and other site data through your browser settings. The exact steps depend on your browser and device. Clearing site data may remove saved preferences or temporary local data related to CompressImage.ca.
10. Do Not Track and browser signals
Some browsers offer “Do Not Track” or similar privacy signals. There is no single industry-wide standard for how websites should respond to these signals. CompressImage.ca does not use your images for tracking regardless of these settings, because your images are processed locally and are not uploaded to us.
11. Changes to this Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our website, cookies, advertising providers, analytics tools, legal requirements, or privacy practices.
If we make changes, we will post the updated version on this page and revise the effective date or last updated date.
12. Related policies
For more information about how we handle personal information, please read our Privacy Policy. For the rules that apply when using the website, please read our Terms of Use.
13. Contact us
Questions about this Cookie Policy can be sent through our contact page or by email at contact@compressimage.ca.
Last updated: June 2026