Who runs this site
LidarKit is an independent, one-person project rather than a company. The operator is the data controller for the limited processing described below, and can be reached at lidarconverter.contact@gmail.com — for any question about this policy, or to make a data-protection request, which is answered within 30 days.
Your files are never uploaded
This is the part that matters most, so it comes first. The LAS, LAZ and GeoTIFF files you open here are never transmitted anywhere. They are not sent to us, because there is nowhere to send them: this site is static files on a CDN with no backend, no database and no upload endpoint.
Your file is read through the browser's own File API and processed by a WebAssembly module running in a Web Worker on your machine. Converted output is written to your browser's origin-private file system, which is storage on your own disk that only this site's code can read and that your browser clears when you clear site data. You can verify all of this yourself: disconnect from the network after the page has loaded and the converter keeps working, or open your browser's network inspector and watch that nothing leaves. See how it worksfor the mechanism in detail.
No accounts, no user database
There is no sign-up, no login and no profile. We do not ask for your name, your email address or any other personal detail, and we operate no database in which such a thing could be stored.
Analytics
The site uses Cloudflare Web Analytics to count page views. It sets no cookies and stores nothing on your device. It reports aggregate figures only — page, referrer, country, browser — with no way for us to identify an individual visitor. Cloudflare's handling of that data is covered by theCloudflare privacy policy.
Advertising
This site is free and carries advertising to cover its running costs. Ads are served by Google AdSense, and unlike the rest of the site, advertisingdoes involve a third party that can set cookies in your browser. Specifically:
- Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites.
- Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the internet.
- You may opt out of personalised advertising by visitingGoogle Ads Settings.
- You may opt out of some third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalised advertising ataboutads.info/choicesor, in Europe, youronlinechoices.eu.
Google's own handling of this data is described inHow Google uses information from sites that use its services. To be explicit about where the boundary sits: advertising cookies relate to your browsing, not to your data. The contents of a point cloud or raster you open here are never seen by Google or by any advertiser, because that data never leaves your machine in the first place.
If you are in the EEA, the UK or Switzerland
You are shown a consent choice before any non-essential advertising cookie is set, and you can decline personalised advertising or withdraw consent later through the same control. Declining restricts nothing: every tool on this site behaves identically either way, because none of them depend on advertising or on any cookie.
Fonts
Typefaces load from Google Fonts, so your browser makes a request tofonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com that necessarily reveals your IP address to Google, as a request to any server does. Google states it does not use this to build advertising profiles; see the Google Fonts privacy FAQ.
What is stored on your device
| What | Purpose | Cleared by |
|---|---|---|
| Origin-private file system entries | Temporary storage for a conversion's output, so multi-gigabyte results need not fit in memory | Removed when the conversion finishes, and when you clear site data |
| Google advertising cookies | Ad selection, measurement and frequency capping, subject to your consent choice | Clearing cookies, or opting out via Google Ads Settings |
| Consent record | Remembering your advertising choice so you are not asked on every visit | Clearing site data |
The converter and the viewers themselves set no cookies at all.
Children
This is a professional LiDAR and geospatial tool. It is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 16 — nor, given the above, from anyone at all.
Your rights
Under the GDPR and comparable laws you have the right to access, correct, export or erase personal data an operator holds about you, and to object to its processing. In our case the honest answer to an access request is that there is nothing to return: no account, no upload, and no analytics record tied to you. For data Google holds in connection with advertising, use the Google controls linked above, which act on Google's own records directly. You also have the right to complain to your national data protection authority.
Changes
If this policy changes materially — a new third-party service, a new category of data — the "last updated" date above changes with it. There is no mailing list to notify you, by design.