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Privacy

Last updated 18 August 2026.

This is written to be read rather than to be defensible, so it describes exactly what the software does.

There is no account, and there are no cookies

You do not sign up, sign in, or give an email address to use this tool. The site sets no cookies, writes nothing to localStorage or sessionStorage, and carries no advertising or cross-site tracking scripts of any kind. The "taken this session" list on the page lives in the browser tab's memory and is gone the moment you close it.

What is recorded

Standard web server logs. Like essentially every website, the server keeps an access log: your IP address, the time, the page or file requested, and your browser's user-agent string. These rotate daily and are deleted after 14 days. They exist to spot abuse and diagnose faults, and they are not used to build any profile of you.

Errors and warnings. The application itself logs only warnings and errors, not ordinary activity.

Nothing else. There is no database of visitors, no record of which pins you looked up tied to you, and nothing sold or shared with anyone.

What happens to the pins you paste

When you paste a pin link, this server fetches that pin's page from Pinterest, not your browser. A practical consequence worth knowing: Pinterest sees a request from this server, and does not see you.

The details the server reads back — the pin's title and the addresses of its files — are held in memory for six hours so that a popular pin is not fetched over and over. That cache is memory only, is never written to disk, and disappears whenever the service restarts. It is keyed by the pin, not by who asked for it.

What happens to the files you download

Files are relayed, not stored. When you take a copy, the bytes stream from Pinterest's servers through this one to you and are not written to disk at any point. The relay marks its responses private so that no shared cache holds a copy either.

The reason the file has to pass through here at all is technical rather than a choice: Pinterest's CDN refuses to hand its files directly to another website, so a browser cannot fetch them from this page. Routing them through the server is also what lets the download arrive with a real filename instead of opening in a tab.

Cloudflare

The site sits behind Cloudflare, which serves as its CDN and its protection against attack. Cloudflare processes requests on the way in and keeps its own logs; that is a necessary part of the site being reachable and staying up. Where Cloudflare's traffic analytics are used they are aggregate and cookieless — visit counts and country totals, nothing that identifies a person.

Your rights

Because the site holds no account and nothing that identifies you beyond short-lived server logs, there is generally nothing to export or delete on request. If you believe a log entry relates to you and you want it removed, write to [email protected] with enough detail to find it, and it will be deleted if it is still within the 14-day window.

Children

This site is not directed at children and collects nothing from anyone knowingly.

Changes

If this page changes, the date at the top changes with it.

Questions: [email protected].