Privacy policy

Effective date: 22 August 2026

Picfolio is built on a simple principle: your images and your library are yours, and they stay on your machine. Picfolio has no accounts, no sign-up, and no servers of its own. It does not collect analytics, does not track you, and does not sell — or even see — your data.

What Picfolio stores, and where

Everything you make with Picfolio — saved slideshows, contact sheets, moodboards, scrapbooks, your collection, favourites, and per-site playback settings — is stored in your browser's extension storage on your own devices. If you are signed into Chrome with sync enabled, Chrome may sync this data between your own browsers as it does for any extension; that synchronisation is performed by your browser under Google's privacy policy, and Picfolio has no access to it in transit.

When you play a folder from your computer, the images are read in place and never uploaded anywhere. The list of recently opened folders is stored locally in the extension's own storage on your machine.

Backups are files you create deliberately, saved to your own disk, containing your own library. Web-page exports are files you create deliberately, containing the images you chose to include — sharing an export shares those images, so share them as you would any file of your photos.

What Picfolio accesses, and why

Picfolio runs on a web page only when you click its toolbar icon on that page. It reads the page's images in order to play them, and fetches image files through the extension so that saving works on sites that would otherwise block it. It requests the browser's downloads permission so that saved images can be written to your Downloads folder or a folder you choose. None of this data leaves your computer.

Purchases and licence keys

Picfolio's optional paid upgrade, Picfolio Pro, is sold through a third-party payment provider. When you buy, your payment is handled entirely by that provider under its own privacy policy — Picfolio never sees your card details. If you activate a licence key, the extension sends only the key itself to the provider's licensing service to confirm it is genuine; this is the only network request Picfolio ever makes that isn't fetching images from the page you are viewing. Your licence key is then stored in your browser's extension storage like everything else.

What Picfolio does not do

Picfolio does not collect personal information. It does not use analytics or telemetry. It does not set cookies. It does not show advertising or share anything with advertisers. It does not read pages in the background — it runs only where and when you invoke it.

Removing your data

Settings ▸ Reset all Picfolio data deletes everything Picfolio has stored in your browser. Uninstalling the extension removes its local storage; synced extension data can be cleared through your browser's sync settings.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, the new version will be published on this page with a new effective date. Questions are welcome at hello@picfolio.co.uk.