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Privacy Policy

Last updated: 14 June 2026

Fast Media Sorter for Windows collects no personal data. It has no user accounts, no advertising, and no telemetry or analytics. It runs entirely on your own device, and the developer receives no data about you or your use of the app - honestly, we wouldn't know what to do with it anyway.

What the app accesses, and why

• Your media files. The app reads, displays, copies, moves, renames and deletes the image and video files in the folders you open - that is its core purpose. It only ever touches files and folders you point it at (including network shares you browse to). It has seen your meme folder and judged nothing.
• Folder sharing - optional, opt-in. If you enable it, the bundled Share Manager companion runs a local SFTP server so your own phone can browse the folders you choose. The access password and the server host key are generated and kept only on your PC, and files are served directly between your own devices - never through us or any third party. While a share is on, any device on your current network (home, office, or a public Wi-Fi) can reach the PC on the share port; access needs the password embedded in the QR/config you share, so treat that code as a key and do not post it publicly. A LAN only switch keeps the share off the internet; idle connections close after a few hours, and you can cap how many devices connect at once. If you turn on internet access, the app asks the public service check-host.net to confirm your forwarded port is reachable, which reveals your public address and port to that service for the check. The app keeps local-only connection counters (this is not telemetry and never leaves your PC).
• The Server edition - a separate download, never installed by default. If you deliberately install it, the same folder sharing is hosted by a Windows service instead of by your signed-in session, so the folders you chose stay reachable from boot even when nobody is logged on. Nothing about what is collected changes - there is still no telemetry, and files still go straight between your own devices - but the exposure window does: the share is up whenever the machine is, not only while you are using it. The service runs as LOCAL SERVICE and can open only the folders you configured. Its host key, password and settings live in a machine folder readable by administrators and that account alone. Uninstalling stops and removes the service and its firewall rule; the host key is kept unless you delete it, so your paired phones still work if you reinstall.
• Network - optional, only for translation. The on-image translation feature is off until you enable and configure it. When you use it, the app sends the recognized text to the translation endpoint you choose - a local Ollama model on your own machine, or a LibreTranslate server you specify - to receive the translated text. OCR (text recognition) runs fully offline. If you never use translation, the app makes no network requests, except for optional components you ask the app to fetch: additional OCR language packs from the public Tesseract data repository, and FFmpeg - the video encoder behind "Replace with video" - from its published Windows builds. Both downloads happen only after you say yes to a prompt that names what is being fetched; nothing about your files, your paths or your usage is sent with either.
• API keys (if you set one). If a translation provider you configure needs an API key, it is stored encrypted on your device using Windows DPAPI and is sent only to that provider's endpoint when translating.

Local files the app writes

• Settings. Preferences and hotkeys are stored in the Windows registry (in the Microsoft Store build these live inside the app's package container).
• OCR data and caches. Downloaded Tesseract language packs, a downloaded copy of FFmpeg, the translation cache and the decode cache (decoded copies of the WEBP, AVIF and HEIC files you have opened, kept so the second view is instant) are stored under %LOCALAPPDATA%\SZA\FastMediaSorter. These never leave your device, and both caches can be emptied or switched off in Settings.

Data sharing

None with the developer - the kind of "none" that is actually none, and no telemetry or analytics ever. The only things that leave your device do so at your explicit choice and go where you direct them, not to us: the text you translate goes to the translation endpoint you configured; shared files go directly to your own phone over SFTP; and, if you enable internet access, your public address and port are shown to check-host.net solely to test reachability.

Diagnostic logs

The app writes a plain-text log of its own work next to the program (or, when that folder is not writable, under your local application data). It never leaves your device on its own. Settings → About has a "Send the logs to the author" button: it packs those logs and a report of your version, Windows details and settings into an archive, shows you what went in, and opens a new message in your own mail program with the archive attached. Nothing is transmitted until you send that message yourself, and you can open the archive and inspect it first. The logs contain the paths and names of the files you opened; your translation API key is never included.

Children's privacy

The app collects no data from anyone, including children.

Open source

Fast Media Sorter for Windows is open source - you can review exactly what it does, no hidden surprises, at github.com/SerZhyAle/FastMediaSorter_Lite.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted on this page with a new "Last updated" date.

Contact

Questions about this policy: serzhyale@gmail.com.