Privacy Policy

Who we are

FastEXIF is made by The Bunker Desenvolvimento e Tecnologia LTDA, a Brazilian company. For anything about this policy, write to support@fastexif.app.

What the app does with your files

Everything happens on your machine. The app opens the file, reads its metadata (EXIF, IPTC, XMP, GPS and the cinema fields) and shows it on screen.

• Your files and their contents are never sent to us or to anyone else.
• There is no upload, no cloud and no sync.
• The GPS location shown on screen is the one already written into the file — it is read, not collected.
• To show the name of the place (city, state, country), the app asks Apple’s map service, through macOS itself, with the file’s coordinates and nothing else. It does not go through us and is not stored anywhere.

What the site records

We measure the site’s traffic with Umami, running on our own servers. No cookies, no third-party trackers, no ads. What gets recorded:

• The page viewed and where the visit came from.
• Country and city, derived from the IP at the moment of the visit. The IP is not stored.
• The browser type.

Clicks on "Download" are counted in aggregate: day, version, language and source channel (sanitised utm_source). No personal identifier.

What the app sends

It depends on where you got FastEXIF — in both cases, nothing that identifies you, and never a file, a file name, a piece of metadata or a path.

• From the Mac App Store: nothing. The store handles updates, and the app does not talk to our servers. In the store it shows as "Data Not Collected".
• From this site: once a day, the app checks for a new version (via Sparkle; the app version travels in the User-Agent) and sends an anonymous heartbeat: a random identifier created on first launch — unrelated to you, the machine or its serial number —, the app version, the macOS version and whether the Mac is Apple Silicon or Intel. We do not store the IP or the browser.

The heartbeat is how we know how many installs exist and which versions are in use. You can turn it off in FastEXIF → Settings → Privacy.

There is no sign-up, no login and no key to activate — FastEXIF is free and asks for none of it.

Your rights

Brazil’s data protection law (LGPD) guarantees you access, correction and deletion of your data. Since the app keeps no personal data about you, in practice this comes down to what the site measures — just ask at support@fastexif.app.

Where the data lives

The aggregate numbers from the site, from update checks and from the heartbeat live on our own servers, rented from a hosting provider. There is no payment or email processor: FastEXIF is free and sends no email.