Privacy Policy

Last updated: 29 September 2026

VideoBGNinja ("we", "us") is a free online tool that removes the background from short videos. We designed it to know as little about you as possible.

Your videos

• Uploads are deleted immediately after processing. The moment your results are ready, the original file you uploaded is removed from our server.
• Results are wiped within 45 minutes. The generated files (transparent WebM, green-screen MP4, alpha matte) exist only long enough for you to download them.
• Processing happens on computers we operate ourselves; some heavy jobs run on a different one of our computers than the web server. Your video is never sent to a third-party AI service, never watched by a human, and never used to train anything. The one exception: if you choose to send us a file yourself, we keep it for at most 30 days and one person on our team looks at it. Even then it is never shared or used for training (see below).
• Uploads and results are never included in our backups.

Files you choose to send us

Next to a result, you can click “Share these 2 files” to help us find mistakes our tests don’t catch. This is entirely optional and off by default.

• What we ask for: the one file you uploaded and the result we gave you, and nothing else: only the part we need: up to 30 seconds of audio, one page of a PDF, or an image with the location data (EXIF/GPS) removed.
• Faces: a separate checkbox, off by default, where you confirm the file shows faces and everyone in it agreed, with no children in it. Without it, faces are blurred or the file is refused.
• Why: to find mistakes our automatic tests don’t catch, and turn real ones into new test cases.
• Legal basis: your explicit consent (Art. 6(1)(a) and, for special-category data such as faces, Art. 9(2)(a) GDPR). For other people who may appear in your file, our legitimate interest with strict minimisation (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).
• How long: at most 30 days, then it is deleted automatically.
• Withdraw any time: you get a one-time code on screen. Enter it whenever you like and we delete the pair, its label and the consent record immediately: as easy as giving it.
• Who sees it: one person on our team, and nothing else. A local AI model only adds a label for the kind of mistake, never a description of a person, and it never leaves our own computer.
• What we never do: we never store your IP address, filename or email with it; never train or fine-tune any model on it; never share it with anyone else, publish it, or offer it through the API; and never use it to identify or score anyone.

What we do collect

• Anonymous usage counts. We count page views and tool runs per day. IP addresses are used only to enforce a fair-use limit and for a daily visitor count that uses a daily-rotating keyed hash: the raw address is not stored with your file and cannot be traced back to a video.
• “Report a problem” screenshots. If you use the Feedback button, we receive your message together with a screenshot of the page you are on; that box is ticked by default and you can untick it. Screenshots are deleted after 30 days.
• No accounts, no profiles. There is nothing to sign up for, so there is no personal data tied to you.

Email list

You can leave your email address to get a free 12-hour Pro pass, and another one every month: what it unlocks changes from month to month. That is the only reason we ask for it. The tools work without it: nothing here needs an account, and nothing is hidden behind giving us your address.

We store the address, when you signed up, which site you signed up on, the IP address you used, and the exact sentence that was shown next to the button when you asked for the pass. That last part is the proof that you asked for this, which is what the law expects us to keep. We only ever email an address after you click the confirmation link in the first email, so nobody can put someone else on the list.

The emails themselves are delivered by Resend (Resend, Inc.), which sees the address in order to deliver the message and nothing else. We keep your address until you unsubscribe.

Every email has an unsubscribe link that works in one click, without logging in. Use it and your address is deleted: all that stays behind is a one-way hash, so we can show that we honoured it. We never sell, rent or share the list, and we don't use it to follow you around the web.

Advertising & cookies

When ads are shown here, third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on those visits. You can opt out of personalised advertising in Google’s Ads Settings, and opt out of some other vendors’ advertising cookies at www.aboutads.info.

This site is supported by ads served by Google AdSense. Google and its partners may use cookies or device identifiers to show ads; in the EEA, UK and Switzerland you will first see a consent message where you can accept or manage options. See how Google uses data from partner sites. Apart from advertising cookies, we set no tracking cookies of our own.

Who we are, why we process data, and for how long

VideoBGNinja is run by ShinobiTools, registered with the KvK (Dutch Chamber of Commerce) under number 42147182. Contact: hello@shinobitools.com.

• Processing your video as you ask, to deliver the service you request (performance of the service, Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR). Your upload is deleted right after processing, and the results 45 minutes after they are ready, the same on the free tier, the free email pass and the paid pass. An upload that stops halfway is deleted after an hour without new data.
• Limits, security and anonymous usage counts, our legitimate interest in running the site fairly and safely (Art. 6(1)(f)). The counts are kept for 60 days.
• Contact form, to answer your message (Art. 6(1)(f)). Messages are kept for at most 180 days.
• “Report a problem” with an optional screenshot, so we can see the problem (Art. 6(1)(f)). The screenshot box is ticked by default and you can untick it. Screenshots are deleted after 30 days.
• Email list and monthly pass, only with your consent (Art. 6(1)(a)). Kept until you unsubscribe.
• Advertising cookies, only with your consent, given through the cookie banner (Art. 6(1)(a)).
• Google Fonts, the typeface used on this site is loaded from Google's servers (fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com) as a page opens, so Google receives your IP address and browser details with that request. We use it to show the pages in the intended typeface. See Google's privacy policy.
• Microsoft Clarity, a script from clarity.ms that records how the pages are used, such as clicks and scrolling, so we can see where a page gets in the way. It is loaded only after you agree to it in the cookie banner. Where the cookie banner reports that consent is not required for your location, it is loaded without that step. See Microsoft's privacy statement.
• YouTube, the demo videos on some pages are played by YouTube (Google). Nothing is loaded from the YouTube player until you press play; then the video is loaded from youtube.com, which receives your IP address and may set its own cookies. On some video pages the preview picture is loaded from YouTube's image server (i.ytimg.com) when the page is shown. See Google's privacy policy.
• Cloudflare, the connection to this site runs through Cloudflare, which passes the traffic on to us and provides security. Cloudflare sees your IP address and the pages you request, and may set a cookie of its own, for example when it checks that a visitor is not a bot. See Cloudflare's privacy policy.
• Stripe, if you buy a pass, you pay on Stripe's own checkout page, not ours. Your card details go to Stripe under its privacy policy, and we never see them. We receive confirmation that the order was paid, its order number and the e-mail address you entered.

Where it runs. Everything runs on computers we operate ourselves; some heavy jobs run on a different one of our computers than the web server. Uploads and results are never included in our backups.

Your rights. You can ask us at any time for access to, correction or deletion of your data, object to processing, or withdraw your consent, by emailing hello@shinobitools.com. You can also complain to the Dutch Data Protection Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl) or to the supervisory authority in your own country.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Email hello@shinobitools.com.

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