eikino

Privacy policy

Updated 2026-11-15

This page explains what happens to your files and data on eikino.com. The short version: most tools run in your browser, the AI tools send a few small still images for one answer, and media files checked in our tools are not retained by default — except when you explicitly click “Share verification link” to publish a result card. If you buy checks, we keep your email and what you bought.

Tools that run in your browser

Video to GIF, video to MP3, reading the location and date saved in photos and videos, and the file scan of the AI video detector run on your device with JavaScript. The file is not sent to us or anyone else.

Tools that use AI

The photo and video location finder and the AI video detector make resized copies in your browser (a photo, or up to six frames from a video, at most 1024 pixels on the long side) and send them to our server only when you press the button. Our server passes them, with the instructions for the task, to Google Gemini through KeelRouter, our model gateway, and returns the answer to you. By default, we do not store the images or the answer and do not log them. Google processes them under its API terms. If the file has a recording date, the location finder sends that date along as a hint. The whole video never leaves your device. When you call the HTTP API or MCP server with an image_url, our server downloads that HTTPS URL once to forward the image to Google Gemini through KeelRouter; neither the downloaded image nor the answer is stored.

When you use Animate old photos or Photo to video, your browser resizes and frames a single JPEG copy of your photo and sends it to our server. Our server holds that resized copy temporarily under a signed link (for up to 15 minutes, and wipes it as soon as your clip finishes or fails) so our video generation model (TBC Mischief-1 via fal.ai, routed through KeelRouter) can render the short MP4 clip. Rendered video URLs are retained temporarily by the model gateway so you can play and download your clip, and are not published anywhere on Eikino.

Shared verification links

Media files and results are never saved unless you ask us to. When you explicitly click “Share verification link” on a verification or location result, your browser makes one low-resolution thumbnail frame (up to 480 pixels wide) and sends it with the verification or location result card to our server. That thumbnail and result card are stored permanently in our database to serve the public /r/<id> link to anyone who opens it. Shared report pages carry a noindex, nofollow directive so search engines do not index them, and your full-resolution video or photo is never uploaded. To have a shared link deleted, email us with the link.

What we do keep

  • Cloudflare, which hosts the site, keeps standard request logs (IP address, time, page) for a short time to run and protect the service.
  • To count the free AI checks and guard share-link creation against abuse, we store short-lived counters keyed by a one-way hash of your IP address (the network part for IPv6). We never store the address itself, and counters are deleted after two days.
  • If you click “Share verification link”, we store the low-resolution thumbnail frame and the verification or location result card needed to serve that /r/<id> page.
  • Your light or dark theme choice is saved in your browser.
  • When a location tool or shared location report shows an answer, the small map is loaded from OpenStreetMap, which sees your IP address and the map area.

Accounts and payments

You only need an account to buy checks or create API keys. We store your email address, the sign-in session, hashed API keys (with their name, prefix and last-used time), your checks and when you used them (not what you checked), and your payments. You sign in with an emailed link; the email is sent through Cloudflare. Payments are handled by Stripe, which receives your card details directly; we never see them. To delete your account, write to us.

Cookies and analytics

If you sign in, we set one cookie to keep you signed in. Otherwise we set no cookies. We count visits and tool steps — choosing a file (file_loaded), finishing an AI check (ai_check_done) or browser export (tool_exported), creating a share link (report_shared), creating an API key (api_key_created), and starting checkout (checkout_started) — with PostHog (in the United States) in cookieless mode: no analytics cookies, nothing saved in your browser, IP addresses dropped before storage, and no file names, images, results or individual share-link IDs sent. We run no ads.

Contact

Questions or requests: support@eikino.com.