Your photos never leave your device.
Image processing
Halation performs all colour grading locally, in your browser, using WebGL. When you choose a photograph, the file is read directly into your device's graphics memory. It is never uploaded to any server, never stored, never logged, and never transmitted to a third party. Exported files are written by your browser straight to your own downloads folder. Closing the tab discards everything.
This is a property of how the tool is built, not a policy we could quietly change. You can verify it: open your browser's developer tools, switch to the Network tab, and grade a photo. No request carrying image data will appear.
Information we collect
We do not ask for or store names, email addresses, or accounts. There is no login. We do not use cookies to identify you, and we do not build advertising profiles ourselves.
Third-party services
- Hosting. The site is served as static files. The hosting provider records standard server logs — IP address, user agent, requested path, timestamp — for security and abuse prevention. These logs contain no image data.
- Fonts. Typefaces are served from this site's own domain. No font CDN or other third party is contacted when a page loads.
- Advertising. If and when advertising is introduced on this site, this section will name the provider, describe the cookies used, and — for visitors in the EEA, the UK and Switzerland — a consent banner will be presented before any advertising or measurement cookie is set. Nothing of the kind is running today.
Your rights
Because we hold no personal data about you, there is nothing for us to export, correct or delete on request. If that changes, this page changes with it, and the date at the top will tell you when.
Children
This site is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect any information from them.
Contact
Questions about this policy can be sent via the contact page.