Responsible Use

Last updated: May 2026

This page sets the acceptable-use framework for iloveimg.online. The Site is built for legitimate image-conversion use; misuse for illegal content, fraud, or copyright infringement is prohibited and reportable.

1. Legitimate uses (intended audience)

• Designers / freelancers — converting client-provided EPS to PNG, PSD to JPEG for mockups, ICO for browser tabs.
• Bloggers / content creators — HEIC iPhone photos to JPEG / WebP for WordPress / Wix / Substack uploads.
• Photographers — quick RAW preview without launching Lightroom; format normalisation.
• Web developers — converting design exports to AVIF / WebP for site optimisation.
• Print workflows — JPEG to TIFF conversion with colour profile preservation.
• Casual users — "I have a HEIC photo and need to email it to someone whose Outlook can't open HEIC".

2. Prohibited content and use

Absolutely prohibited

• Child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Uploading CSAM is a serious crime in every jurisdiction we operate in or serve users in. Italian L. 38/2006, U.S. 18 U.S.C. § 2252, EU Directive 2011/93/EU. We cooperate with law-enforcement in CSAM investigations.
• Non-consensual intimate imagery ("revenge porn"). Italian L. 69/2019 (Codice Rosso), U.S. state laws, EU member-state laws.
• Imagery facilitating terrorism or violent extremism.
• Counterfeit currency / forged documents.
• Imagery created or modified to facilitate fraud, identity theft, or impersonation.

Prohibited as misuse

• Copyright infringement. Don't upload images you don't have rights to convert. Conversion does not create rights to redistribute the converted output.
• Trademark / brand impersonation. Do not use the conversion tool to clean up or modify trademarked images for impersonation.
• Privacy violation. Do not upload images of others taken without consent in contexts where privacy expectations apply.
• Stalkerware / surveillance. Do not use the Site as part of stalkerware tooling.
• Mass automated abuse. Don't use the Site as a free image-conversion API for commercial-scale automation. Rate limits enforce this; commercial use cases should use a commercial converter (CloudConvert, Convertio, Cloudinary).
• Reverse-engineering / scraping the Site beyond what robots.txt and applicable law permit.

3. What we don't do (and why we don't AI-moderate)

• We don't run AI image-classification on uploads. This is a deliberate privacy choice (per Data Handling) — we don't analyse the content of your image, period.
• The trade-off: we don't proactively detect prohibited content. Responsibility for the content rests with the uploader, per the Terms of Service.
• What we do when prohibited content is reported: investigate the report, cooperate with law enforcement, take reasonable steps consistent with applicable law.

This is the honest trade-off: privacy-by-default means no proactive content moderation. Sites that promise heavy AI moderation are also analysing your content in ways that may conflict with privacy expectations. Pick the trade-off that fits your use case.

4. Specific image-handling considerations

Photographs of identifiable people

If you're converting photos of identifiable people:

• You should have rights / consent for the conversion.
• Be aware that EXIF metadata in original files often contains GPS location data (default-stripped on web export).
• Distribution of converted output is your responsibility.

Trademarked / branded imagery

• Conversion of branded images for legitimate uses (your own work documenting trademark use, journalistic / academic use, parody where applicable) is fine.
• Conversion to facilitate impersonation, counterfeit goods, or trademark infringement is prohibited.

Public-domain and Creative-Commons images

• Converting public-domain or CC-licensed images is fine. Attribution per CC-license terms remains your responsibility for downstream use.

Stock / licensed imagery

• Conversion of legitimately licensed stock imagery is fine.
• Conversion to circumvent watermarks, licensing terms, or DRM is prohibited.

5. What we do about misuse

• Rate limits on conversion endpoints to prevent commercial-scale automated abuse.
• Abuse reports at abuse [at] iloveimg [punto] online. Reports are investigated.
• Cooperation with law enforcement on valid legal process.
• NCMEC / equivalent reporting for CSAM identified through reports or law-enforcement requests.
• Block / ban of users demonstrably engaged in repeat violation.

6. Reporting prohibited content

To report content uploaded to or distributed via iloveimg.online that violates this policy:

• For CSAM: contact local law enforcement first. National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) for U.S.: report.cybertip.org. Italian Postal Police for Italy.
• For other illegal content: abuse [at] iloveimg [punto] online with subject Illegal content report.
• For copyright / DMCA: dmca [at] iloveimg [punto] online per DMCA.
• For privacy violations: privacy [at] iloveimg [punto] online.

7. Reasonable expectations

• The Site is not a malicious actor. Misuse cases are a small minority of conversions.
• The Site cannot prevent all misuse. The privacy-by-default design means no proactive content scanning. Responsibility for content rests with the uploader.
• The Site responds to credible misuse reports within the framework above.

Related pages: Terms of Service · Abuse Reporting · Data Handling · Disclaimer · DMCA