Privacy at border.video
In one paragraph
Your videos are never sent to us. The border, frame, caption or collage you design is drawn by your own browser and the finished file is written straight to your device. What does leave your device is ordinary web traffic (asking for our pages) and usage counts, explained below, which you can switch off.
The clips you frame
Opening a video lets the page read the file you picked. It is decoded with your browser’s WebCodecs support and the open-source mediabunny library, each frame is painted with its border on a canvas, and the result is encoded again, all on your computer or phone. The picture, the sound, the file name, its metadata and any caption you type stay there. None of it is uploaded to border.video or passed to anyone else.
What your browser keeps for you
- The video you are framing (single-video mode). The open clip, your border settings and the last export are saved in this site’s IndexedDB storage so a reload or a crash doesn’t lose your work. Pieces of an unfinished export are removed when it completes, and leftovers are cleared on a later visit once they are a week old.
- Recent videos. Finished single-video exports appear on a Recent videos shelf on this device, up to 24, until you remove them or newer ones replace them.
- Collages live only in the open tab. Closing it discards the clips and the layout.
- Small preferences in local storage: light or dark mode
(
vt-theme) and your analytics choice (vt-consent).
To remove all of it, clear this site’s data in your browser’s settings.
The one download from elsewhere
If your browser can’t read a clip’s format on its own, the tool fetches the open-source ffmpeg.wasm converter from the unpkg.com content network and converts the file on your device. That request reveals your IP address to unpkg.com, as any download does; your video is not part of it. Common MP4, MOV and WebM files never need it.
Hosting
Pages and scripts are delivered by Cloudflare. To serve them and to keep out abusive traffic, Cloudflare’s servers process routine request details such as your IP address, browser and the address you asked for. We rely on this only to keep border.video online and safe (UK GDPR and GDPR Art. 6(1)(f), legitimate interests). Cloudflare explains how it handles those logs in its privacy policy.
Counting visits
Cloudflare Web Analytics and Ahrefs Web Analytics tell us how many people visit, from which sites, and roughly where and on what kind of device. Neither uses cookies, and both report totals only.
Google Analytics 4 helps us see which looks, shapes and guides people actually use. It records the pages you view and tool actions such as opening a video, picking a look or a shape, exporting and downloading, with coarse details like the video’s rough length and size, tied together by a random ID in a first-party cookie. It never receives your video, its frames or sound, its file name, your caption or the colours you type. It is not used for advertising: ad features and Google signals are switched off. Google handles the data under its privacy policy and its page on how Google uses data from sites that use its services; it may be processed in the United States under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, and we keep it for 14 months.
Legal basis: our legitimate interest in measuring and improving the site (Art. 6(1)(f)). In the UK the analytics cookie relies on the statistical-purposes exception in the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations, as amended by the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025. For visitors in the European Economic Area and Switzerland, analytics cookies start switched off, so Google only receives cookieless signals without an identifier.
Cookies, and switching them off
There are no advertising cookies here. The only cookies are Google Analytics ones,
_ga and _ga_*, which last up to two years. Your first visit shows
a short notice about them. To object, open Cookie settings at the bottom of
any page and choose Turn off analytics; this browser remembers the choice
and no further analytics cookies are set. If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control
signal, we treat it as that same objection automatically. We do not sell personal data.
Who runs border.video
border.video is an independent, self-funded project. There are no accounts, and because your footage never reaches us, we hold no file or profile about you to look up or hand over.
Your rights
You may have the right to access, correct or erase personal data, to restrict or object to its use, to move it, and to complain to a supervisory authority (in the UK, the Information Commissioner’s Office). Your videos and settings never leave your device, so clearing this site’s data in your browser removes them completely. Use Cookie settings to stop analytics, and Google’s own controls for anything Google already holds.
Changes to this page
When border.video changes how it handles data, this page changes in the same release and the date at the top moves forward.