Security and your data

Short version: your file is processed, held for at most 7 days so you can download the result, then deleted automatically. Nobody reads it and it is not used for anything else.

What happens when you upload

  1. The file goes over an encrypted connection to a server we run ourselves. This site is served only over HTTPS; there is no unencrypted version of it.
  2. It is processed to produce your preview. That preview is generated from your actual file, which is the point of it.
  3. If you pay, the finished file is generated and made available to download.
  4. A scheduled job deletes the upload, anything extracted from it, and the finished download. This runs whether or not you paid, and whether or not you downloaded anything.

The deletion schedule

Everything is removed within 7 days. A job still actively processing gets a short grace period so it does not get deleted halfway through, and then it goes the same way. There is no archive, no backup copy kept for longer, and no “deleted but recoverable” state.

If you want something gone sooner, email hello@onetimetool.com and we will delete it by hand and confirm when it is done.

Payment

Checkout is hosted by Dodo Payments. Your card details go to them directly and never pass through this site. We never see your card number, and there is nothing here for anyone to steal.

Accounts

There are none. No password to leak, no profile, no login. If you never pay, we never learn your email address.

What we can actually see

Being honest about the limits: files are processed on a server, which means the software has to read them to do the work. We are not going to claim end-to-end encryption or browser-only processing, because it is not true here: every tool on this site uploads your file to be processed. What we will say is that nobody opens your files, there is no process that mines them, and they are gone inside 7 days.

Ask a security question

If you are about to upload something sensitive and want a straight answer first, email hello@onetimetool.com. We would rather answer it than have you guess.