Terms of Use

1. Agreement

These Terms of Use (“Terms”) are a contract between you and Jungean-Herman Marius-Alexandru, acting as Alexandru Jungean (“we”, “us”), for the information-society service File Compression at https://compress.alexjungean.com (the “Service”).

By accessing or using the Service you agree to these Terms and to the Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

If you are a consumer in the European Union, the European Economic Area, or another jurisdiction that grants mandatory consumer protections, those protections apply and prevail over any clause that would restrict them.

2. Operator

The Service is provided by Jungean-Herman Marius-Alexandru, a natural person established in Romania. Contact: alex.jungean@gmail.com. Full identification duties are set out in the Legal Notice.

3. The Service

The Service is a free, browser-local still-image compressor. The only published compression routes are JPEG to JPEG, PNG to PNG, and WebP to WebP. There is no output-format selector and no format conversion.

The Service:

• runs validation, decode, orientation, resize, encode, preview, and ZIP creation in this browser;
• does not create accounts, take payment, or issue API keys;
• does not upload source or derived bytes to a server;
• rejects animated input, SVG, AVIF, truncated or malformed containers, and every unregistered format;
• produces output with the browser encoder; output is not guaranteed to be lossless, smaller, or identical across browsers.

Smart mode keeps format and oriented dimensions. A smaller valid candidate is written without copied source metadata. If the candidate is not strictly smaller, the original file is kept and marked already optimized.

Resource ceilings (pixels, concurrency, timeout, and related limits) are those implemented in the current published build. We do not promise unlimited files, unlimited size, or a particular quality number in marketing copy.

4. Eligibility

You must be at least 16 years old, or you must use the Service only with the authorisation of a parent or guardian where that is required. You must have the legal capacity to agree to these Terms.

If you use the Service for an organisation, you confirm that you are allowed to bind that organisation.

5. No account; local session

There are no accounts, saved presets, or server-side queues. Selected files exist only in page memory for the current session. Closing the tab, using Reset, removing an item, or leaving the page discards that session. We cannot restore files we never received.

The Service is not a backup, archive, or evidence-preservation system.

6. Licence to use the Service

We grant you a personal, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the public Service to compress files you are allowed to process, for lawful purposes, in accordance with these Terms.

This licence does not give you the right to:

• copy, republish, or frame the Service as your own product;
• scrape, overload, or probe the hosting infrastructure beyond ordinary use;
• reverse engineer the Service except to the extent mandatory law allows;
• remove proprietary notices from the public pages;
• use our name or the product name to imply certification, partnership, or endorsement.

The source repository is proprietary. Public use of the website is not an open-source grant and is separate from any private licence of the code.

7. Your files and responsibility

You retain all rights in files you select and in outputs you download. We claim no ownership of your images. You are solely responsible for those files, for the lawfulness of processing them, and for anything you do with a downloaded file.

You confirm that:

• you have the right to compress and, if you share the output, to share that output;
• the files do not infringe copyright, related rights, trade secrets, privacy, or personality rights of others;
• you will not use the Service to commit or facilitate a crime.

We do not receive, store, host, index, or moderate file contents. The Service is not a hosting service or an online platform that disseminates user content to the public within the meaning of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 (Digital Services Act). There is no hosted user file for us to take down.

8. Acceptable use

You may not:

• process material you do not have the right to process;
• attempt to disrupt, overload, or bypass the host, the Content Security Policy, or other technical limits;
• introduce malware or use the Service as a delivery path for malware;
• misrepresent the Service as encrypted, certified, official, or capable of formats it rejects;
• use automated access that degrades the site for other visitors;
• send unlawful content to the contact email.

Local processing does not legalise content that is illegal to possess or process on your device. Criminal and copyright law still apply to you.

9. Intellectual property

The Service, the name “File Compression”, the public interface, the documentation, and the underlying software are proprietary to Jungean-Herman Marius-Alexandru unless a third-party licence says otherwise. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.

Self-hosted fonts are used under their own licences (Clash Display under the Fontshare EULA; Inter under its published licence). JPEG, PNG, and WebP are format names. Their owners keep their trademarks. No affiliation is claimed.

10. Privacy

Personal data is described in the Privacy Policy. Cookies and similar technologies are described in the Cookie Policy. Those documents form part of these Terms.

11. Disclaimers

The Service is provided “as is” and “as available”. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, quiet enjoyment, and non-infringement.

In particular, we do not warrant that:

• the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or available in every browser;
• output will be smaller, lossless, colour-accurate, or identical on another device;
• every encoder, decoder, or capability probe will succeed in your browser;
• metadata stripping removes all identifying information from pixels;
• the Service will protect files on a compromised device or after you share them.

Lossy JPEG and WebP encoding discards visual information by design. PNG re-encoding may change bytes even when pixels look the same. Consumers keep every statutory guarantee that cannot be excluded.

12. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost data, lost output, business interruption, or substitute services, arising from the Service or from these Terms, whether in contract, tort, or otherwise.

If we are liable despite the previous paragraph, our aggregate liability for all claims arising out of the Service is limited to the greater of (a) the amount you paid us for the Service in the twelve months before the claim (currently zero, because the Service is free) and (b) EUR 0, except where a higher minimum is mandatory.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability for:

• intent (dol) or, where mandatory, gross negligence;
• death or personal injury caused by negligence;
• fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;
• any liability that Romanian law or EU consumer law does not allow to be limited.

If you are a consumer, you keep the rights that cannot be waived, including the right to a proportionate remedy if the Service is not in conformity with these Terms in a way that mandatory digital-content rules protect.

13. Indemnity

If you are not a consumer, you will indemnify us against claims, damages, and reasonable legal costs arising from your unlawful use of the Service or from files you process, to the extent those claims are caused by you.

If you are a consumer, this clause applies only to loss we suffer because of your breach of these Terms or your unlawful conduct, and only to the extent allowed.

14. Third parties

The static artifact is hosted by Netlify. https://alexjungean.com and any other linked site are separate. We are not responsible for third-party content, availability, or terms. A link is not an endorsement.

15. Changes and availability

We may modify, suspend, or discontinue the Service at any time, including changing ceilings, browsers we test, or published routes. We may update these Terms by posting a new version on this page with a new effective date.

For consumers, a change that is not required by law and that materially worsens your position will, where mandatory rules require it, be announced in advance or will not bind you for the session already started. Continued use after the new date means you accept the new Terms for later use.

16. Termination

You may stop using the Service at any time. We may block access, including at the host or CDN, if you breach these Terms or abuse the infrastructure. Sections that by nature should survive (intellectual property, disclaimers, liability, indemnity, governing law) survive termination.

17. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by Romanian law, excluding conflict-of-law rules that would point to another law, without prejudice to mandatory consumer protections of your country of habitual residence in the EU/EEA.

Contact us first at alex.jungean@gmail.com. Consumers in Romania may also use Autoritatea Națională pentru Protecția Consumatorilor (ANPC) (https://anpc.ro) and the alternative dispute resolution entities listed by ANPC. Consumers may bring proceedings in the courts of their place of residence. We may bring proceedings in the courts of Romania, subject to mandatory consumer venue rules.

18. Severability, entire agreement, no waiver

If a clause is held invalid, the rest remains in force. These Terms, with the Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, Legal Notice, and Accessibility Statement, are the entire agreement for use of the public Service. They do not create a partnership or employment relationship. A failure to enforce a right is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms. We may assign them in connection with a transfer of the Service.

19. Contact

alex.jungean@gmail.com