Privacy Policy — donlodvideo

This Privacy Policy outlines how donlodvideo protects your privacy when you use our video and audio download utility.

1. Core Principle: No Accounts & Minimal Data

We believe true privacy begins with not collecting unnecessary personal information. donlodvideo requires no user registration, no email addresses, and no personal profile credentials for public downloads.

2. Technical Data We Process

Anonymous Session (vd_anon): A cryptographically random cookie stored in your browser to maintain job status and secure token delivery privately.
Source URL Hashing: Submitted links are converted to cryptographic SHA-256 hashes for short-term 24-hour caching to minimize duplicate server extraction overhead.
Abuse Prevention: IP addresses are salted and hashed on a one-way basis to enforce fair-usage rate limiting without retaining raw IP addresses.

3. 30-Minute Ephemeral Storage Policy

All downloaded media files are permanently purged from server storage 30 minutes after completion. We never archive, index, or sell user download activity to third parties.

4. Cookies & Advertising

Non-intrusive sponsor ads help support our infrastructure costs. Personalized third-party advertising cookies (such as Google AdSense) are strictly gated and activated only when you explicitly consent via our privacy preferences banner.