Privacy Policy
Photomerge is a Windows program that sorts photographs and videos into folders and renames them by the date they were taken.
In short
The program collects nothing. Your photographs, their names, the folders you choose and everything read from the files stay on your computer.
What the program does on your computer
- reads the source folders you point it at, and never changes or deletes anything in them;
- reads the capture date stored inside each file;
- writes copies (or hard links) into the destination folder you chose, along with
MANIFEST.csvandREPORT.mddescribing the run.
That is all of it. Nothing is uploaded, and file contents are never re-encoded or altered.
Network
The program makes no network requests of its own: no analytics, no telemetry, no crash reports, no update checks.
There is one exception, and the request is not ours. A copy installed from the Microsoft Store asks Windows whether the add-on that removes the promotional strip has been purchased. That question is answered by the Microsoft Store, which may contact Microsoft servers to answer it. We receive only «purchased» or «not purchased» — no personal data — and we store nothing. Copies not installed from the Microsoft Store never ask.
Version 1.0 has neither the promotional strip nor the purchase, so none of this happens yet. It is written down in advance because that is how a later version will work.
Purchases
Any purchase is handled entirely by the Microsoft Store. We never see card details or your Microsoft account. What the Store itself collects is covered by the Microsoft Privacy Statement.
This website
No cookies, no analytics, no tracking. The site is served through Cloudflare, which handles the requests and keeps short-lived technical logs as part of delivering the page.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it, and the version of the program the change applies to says so in its release notes.