What Yoink sees, and where it goes.

Yoink does its work on your computer. Løwe Interactive does not receive your links, titles, settings, history or files, and has no way to look at them.

• ✕NeverAccountsNothing to sign up for, nothing to log in to.
• ✕NeverLøwe seeing your linksURLs, titles, settings and history live on your computer. We never get them.
• ✕NeverAnalytics or telemetryNo usage tracking, crash reporting or behavioural profiling.
• ✕NeverAds or selling dataWe don’t sell data, share it for advertising or build profiles.
• ✓YesSites you pick see your requestDownloading something means contacting the site it lives on.
• ✓YesGitHub delivers updatesYoink and yt-dlp updates come from GitHub.

The rest of this page is the precise version. It covers the Yoink desktop app for Windows and macOS and the Send to Yoink browser extension. Our website has its own policy.

There are four places data can end up, and it helps to keep them apart. Most of what Yoink handles never leaves the first one.

1. On your computer. Things the extension and app process locally. We never receive them.
2. Sites you choose. When you ask Yoink to fetch something, it contacts that site for you.
3. Our service providers. Only for things you send us, like an email.
4. Løwe Interactive. Only what you deliberately send us.

The extension is a small bridge between your browser and Yoink. It asks for four permissions: activeTab, contextMenus, notifications and alarms, plus access to one address on your own computer, 127.0.0.1:32193.

Yoink has no account and no analytics, telemetry, ads or profiling. Here is everything it keeps and every place it connects to.

The app and extension send us nothing. We only get personal data through channels you choose to use:

• Support email. Your address, the email headers, your message and any attachments.
• Privacy or legal requests you send us.
• Our website. Covered in the Løwe Interactive privacy policy.
• Store and platform statistics. Aggregate numbers, such as download counts, that distribution platforms like GitHub and the Chrome Web Store show developers. These do not identify you to us.

The full register. “Performing your request” means the processing is needed to do what you asked (GDPR Art. 6(1)(b)). “Legitimate interests” means we have weighed our need against your privacy (Art. 6(1)(f)), and you can object.

You never have to give us anything. Yoink works without contacting us. If you don’t give the extension a page or link, it has nothing to send, and if you don’t email us, we can’t reply.

Sites you choose

Independent controllers. They see the request Yoink makes for you, including your IP address, under their own privacy policies.

GitHub, Inc.

Independent controller. Hosts Yoink and yt-dlp releases and sees update requests.

Our email provider

Processor. Stores and delivers support email for us under a data processing agreement.

Reddit

Independent controller, only if you choose to open r/YoinkMedia.

Distribution platforms

Independent controllers, such as GitHub and the Chrome Web Store, under their own terms.

Yoink doesn’t have a clear-history button yet. To remove its settings and history, close Yoink and delete its app data folder:

Your downloads stay where you saved them until you delete them yourself.

• Data is kept locally instead of on our servers.
• The extension asks for the fewest permissions it can work with.
• The extension talks to Yoink only over a loopback address that never leaves your computer.
• Pages are inspected in isolated sessions whose storage is deleted afterwards.
• Connections to other sites use secure transport wherever the site supports it.
• Access to support email is restricted to the people who need it.

No software is perfectly secure, and we won’t pretend otherwise. If you find a vulnerability, please tell us at support@loweinteractive.com.

Under the GDPR you have these rights over personal data we hold:

• 01AccessAsk for a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
• 02CorrectionHave inaccurate or incomplete data put right.
• 03ErasureAsk us to delete your data where there is no reason to keep it.
• 04RestrictionAsk us to pause using your data while a question is resolved.
• 05ObjectionObject to processing based on our legitimate interests.
• 06PortabilityReceive data you gave us in a common, machine-readable format.
• 07Withdraw consentWhere we rely on consent, withdraw it at any time, as easily as you gave it.
• 08ComplainLodge a complaint with a data protection authority.

You can complain to a data protection authority.

In Denmark that is Datatilsynet (Danish Data Protection Agency), Carl Jacobsens Vej 35, 2500 Valby, Denmark, datatilsynet.dk. You can also complain to the authority where you live or work in the EU/EEA. We would appreciate the chance to sort it out with you first, but you never have to.

• ✕NeverSelling dataWe don’t sell personal information.
• ✕NeverSharing for adsNothing is shared for cross-context behavioural advertising.
• ✕NeverAdvertising profilesWe don’t build advertising profiles.
• ✕NeverCredit or lending useData is never used for creditworthiness or lending.
• ✕NeverAutomated decisionsNothing decides anything about you with legal or similar effects.
• ✕NeverAimed at young childrenYoink is not directed at children under 13.

We don’t knowingly receive personal data from children under 13. If you think a child has emailed us, tell us and we will delete it.

When we change this policy we update the dates at the top. If a change is material, for example if the extension starts handling data in a new way, we will announce it clearly in Yoink, on the extension’s store listing, or on this page before it takes effect.