Your files never leave your browser.
Every file-processing tool in DigiLakshya Studio-Tools does its work on your machine — the creative you drop in is opened, checked, compressed or converted by JavaScript running in your own browser, not on our server. That's a design decision, not a promise we ask you to take on faith: this page spells out the rule, the exceptions, and exactly what we do record.
These tools process files 100% in your browser
Drop a file into any of these and it is never uploaded to DigiLakshya. Close the tab and it's gone. That's what makes them safe for unreleased campaigns and client work under NDA.
One detail worth knowing about the Background Remover: the traffic flows toward you, not from you. On first use it downloads the AI model (~43 MB) to your browser and caches it — your image is then processed on your own device and never uploaded. We don't claim the tools work offline, and we don't wave certifications around; the claim here is narrower and checkable: your files aren't sent to us.
When something does reach our server
Five cases — every one of them starts with an explicit click from you, never automatically.
1. Opt-in hosted share links
Some tools offer a hosted link so a client or teammate can open your work without a file attachment. Creating one uploads that shared snapshot to DigiLakshya: Ad Preview's "Create share link" — available on free accounts with a daily allowance, unlimited on Pro — stores the previewed creatives and auto-expires after 3 days on free, 30 days on Pro (the free "Share file" .html export runs locally and never touches our server); Creative Review's Pro share and team-review links store the annotated screens as flattened images, with feedback share links expiring after 3 days. Hosted shares draw on your account’s storage budget and are kept in secure cloud storage (Cloudflare R2), encrypted at rest, until they expire — then they're deleted automatically. Sharing is always a deliberate button press — previewing and annotating alone upload nothing.
2. Workspace client-report links
A Workspace manager can generate a read-only report link for a client. The link itself stores only its settings — which client, which columns are visible, the month window, an optional passcode (kept hashed) — and renders a live view of board data that already lives in your team account. It doesn't copy your board anywhere new, and links work until you revoke them.
3. Team apps are server-side — that's the product
Workspace, Leave Manager and team chat (including chat attachments) exist so several people can see the same data — so that data is stored per account, keyed to your team — board and leave data on our server, chat attachment files in secure cloud storage (Cloudflare R2, encrypted at rest). Attachments live in a size-capped, self-pruning pool tied to the workspace owner; when an attachment is pruned or its board is deleted, the stored file is deleted too. A tool can't both live only in one person's browser and be shared with a team; for these three, server-side storage is the feature.
4. Pro full-size downloads pass through once
When a Pro account downloads a full-resolution result, the finished file makes one round trip through our server so we can verify the plan — then it streams straight back to you. It is not stored. The activity log records the file's name, size and which tool produced it — never the contents.
5. Send Files is an uploader — that's its entire purpose
Send Files exists to move files to someone else, so of course it uploads them: your files go straight from your browser to secure cloud storage (Cloudflare R2), encrypted at rest, and live there until the link expires — 3 days free, 30 days Pro — then they're deleted automatically (abandoned half-uploads are cleared within a day). Our server keeps only the file names, sizes and expiry, never the contents. Links are unguessable random tokens, but anyone holding one can download, so don't send secrets you wouldn't email.
What we record — and what's yours
Analytics: coarse on purpose
We use standard Google Analytics tags to learn which tools earn their keep: an event when a tool is opened, an event when a tool exports something, an event when a checkout opens. The payload is a tool name like "bg-remover" or a product name like "pro" — never file contents, never filenames. Alongside that, our own server keeps a plain visit log — page address, referring site, country, mobile or desktop, and your account name if you're signed in. Signed-out visitors are never stored by IP address: it becomes a one-way code re-scrambled every night, so a day's visitors can be counted but nobody can be followed across days. Share links are logged with the token removed, and raw entries are deleted after 90 days.
Your files stay yours
We claim no rights over the files you process or the output you generate — as our in-app terms put it, "your content stays yours." Our copyright covers the tools themselves: the code, design and bundled samples. You're responsible for holding the rights to the assets you bring; everything you make with them belongs to you.
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Tools you can point your NDA at.
20+ free in-browser production tools from a studio that handles confidential agency creative every day. Your files stay on your machine unless you explicitly choose to share.