{"id":104,"date":"2020-05-03T10:14:14","date_gmt":"2020-05-03T10:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.img.vision\/help\/uncategorized\/how-secure-is-the-storage-of-my-images\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T15:42:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T15:42:14","slug":"how-secure-is-the-storage-of-my-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.img.vision\/help\/security\/how-secure-is-the-storage-of-my-images\/","title":{"rendered":"How secure is the storage of my images?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Images are stored in a leading, global, cloud data storage provider.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\"><p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<\/div><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.img.vision\/help\/security\/how-secure-is-the-storage-of-my-images\/#Image_disks_are_encrypted\" >Image disks are encrypted<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.img.vision\/help\/security\/how-secure-is-the-storage-of-my-images\/#Who_has_access\" >Who has access?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.img.vision\/help\/security\/how-secure-is-the-storage-of-my-images\/#Image_backups\" >Image backups<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Image_disks_are_encrypted\"><\/span>Image disks are encrypted<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Data that is written to disks is encrypted by default with AES-256. This encryption does not prevent you or people you share the image with to see the image in their browser or on their phone. It does prevent the case where the physical hardware disk drive is stolen, the thief is unable to determine what is on the disk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Who_has_access\"><\/span>Who has access?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Our <strong>infrastructure cloud provider<\/strong> does not have access to your images. However in rare situations, and with explicit approval from Img.vision, our cloud provider may access files to comply with a law or a governmental body. Such access is logged and documented. If this happens, you, as a customer of Img.vision, will be informed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All <strong>employees and third party contractors<\/strong> working directly for Img.vision have access to your files. We will not access, use or copy your files except for normal usage related to maintaining, improving and operating our service. Our users are in control whether they share their images. We never share images of our users, unless if a law or a govermental body requires we share your files. We will inform you if this happens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Images that are &#8220;online&#8221; and not &#8220;offline&#8221; are <strong>publicly available on the internet<\/strong>. Anyone who knows the public link, can access it. See also our article about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.img.vision\/help\/security\/does-img-vision-share-our-images\/\">sharing images<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Image_backups\"><\/span>Image backups<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We also have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.img.vision\/help\/security\/what-is-your-image-backup-policy\/\">infra-level automatic backups of all images<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Images are stored in a leading, global, cloud data storage provider. Image disks are encrypted Data that is written to disks is encrypted by default with AES-256. This encryption does not prevent you or people you share the image with to see the image in their browser or on their phone. 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