Privacy

Pickup is a free, non-commercial hobby project. There are no ads, nothing is for sale, and there is no business behind it.

Who is responsible

Felix Gnass · E-Mail

The app

Pickup runs on your Mac. When you share files, it shows a QR code. The phone that scans it loads a small web page directly from your Mac and receives the files directly from your Mac, over your local network.

No file, file name or other content is sent to me or to any server.
The app has no analytics, no crash reports and no update checks. It does not connect to the internet.
The QR code contains a one-time secret. Only a device that knows it gets access, and all file data is encrypted on the way.
For a preview of photos, videos and PDFs, the Mac makes small thumbnails with Quick Look. They are made on demand and are not kept.

This website

No cookies.
No analytics, no tracking, no ads.
No accounts and no forms.
No fonts, scripts or other content from third-party servers. Links to other sites (for example GitHub) load nothing until you click them.

Hosting and download

This website is hosted on GitHub Pages, and the app is downloaded from GitHub Releases. Both are services of GitHub, Inc., USA. When you open a page or download the app, also with the install command, your browser or the Terminal sends the usual request data to GitHub's servers, including your IP address. GitHub keeps this data in server logs to run and protect the service. I have no access to these logs. The legal basis is my legitimate interest in delivering the website and the app reliably (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR). For details, see GitHub's privacy statement.

Your rights

Under the GDPR you have the right to access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability and to object. Write me an e-mail for this. You can also complain to a data protection supervisory authority, for example the Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information.

Last updated: November 2026