Last updated: 15 November 2026
Privacy Policy
Video Compressor is made by Volodymyr Nosenko. This page explains what the Mac app and this website (videocompressormac.com) do with your data. Short version: your videos never leave your Mac, the app has no account and no tracking, and the website uses analytics only if you allow it.
The Mac app
- Your videos stay on your Mac. Compression runs locally with the Mac’s hardware encoder. Files are never uploaded.
- No account, no analytics, no ads inside the app.
- Update check. Once a day the app downloads
videocompressormac.com/appcast.xmlto see if a new version exists. That request contains your IP address and the app version, like any web request. - AI integration (Claude, ChatGPT) is optional and local: the AI app on your Mac starts Video Compressor and passes it a file path. Video Compressor sends nothing to Anthropic or OpenAI. What you type into those AI apps is covered by their own privacy policies.
- History of compressed files is stored only on your Mac (
~/Library/Application Support/VideoCompressor).
This website
| What | Why | When |
|---|---|---|
| Server log: IP address, browser, page, time | Security and aggregated statistics (visits, downloads and app update checks per day and per country) | Always. Kept up to about 200 MB of logs, then deleted |
| Google Analytics via Google Tag Manager | Which pages are useful and how visitors find the site | Only after you click “Accept” or enable Analytics |
| Google ads measurement | Measure ads that brought you here | Only after you enable Marketing |
| Your cookie choice (browser storage) | So we don’t ask again on every page | Always. Kept 12 months |
| Google Fonts | Fonts for this site. Your browser requests them from Google, which receives your IP address | Always |
Until you choose, Google tags run in “consent mode” with analytics and ad storage denied: no analytics or advertising cookies are set. You can change your choice at any time with Cookie settings. If you withdraw consent, Google cookies on this site are deleted.
Donations go through PayPal (paypal.me). We receive only what PayPal shares with recipients (your name, email and the amount); PayPal’s own privacy policy applies to the payment.
The site is hosted by Hetzner Online GmbH in Finland (EU). Country statistics use the DB-IP database on our own server; IP addresses are not shared with anyone for this.
Your rights
If you are in the EU, UK or a similar jurisdiction, you can ask for access to, correction or deletion of your personal data, and object to its processing. You can also complain to your data protection authority. Since the app collects nothing and the website keeps only server logs and consented analytics, in most cases there is nothing about you to hand over.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes too. Significant changes to analytics will ask for your cookie consent again.