Privacy Policy

1. The short version

PinClip is a free tool that downloads videos and images from public Pinterest links. We do not require an account, and we do not ask for your name, email, or any other personal information to use it. We collect limited anonymous analytics and size-limited private service logs to understand whether the downloader works and reproduce failures. If we show ads, third-party vendors including Google may use cookies to serve them — see the Advertising section below.

2. Information we process

• The Pinterest link you submit — used to fetch the requested media. A normalized version with tracking parameters removed is retained in a private rotating diagnostic log so failed requests can be reproduced and fixed.
• Your IP address — read transiently to enforce rate limits and prevent abuse. It is held in short-lived application memory and may appear temporarily in the reverse proxy's size-limited security or transport-error logs. It is not stored in PinClip's diagnostic event log or a user database.
• Cached pin metadata — the title, URL and media link of a pin are kept in server memory for up to 24 hours to avoid repeatedly fetching Pinterest.
• Anonymous analytics — sanitized page paths, referring page, browser and device details, approximate location, and structured events such as extraction success, error codes, media type, item count, and download clicks. We do not send the Pinterest link, pin title, author, media address, or download token to OpenPanel.
• Anonymous service identifier — a random identifier and its creation time are stored in your browser so repeated transfer events can be grouped into one user-visible task. It contains no account, IP address, or device fingerprint.
• Installed-web-app state — limited browser storage records whether PinClip has been opened from an installed home-screen icon and prevents duplicate launch analytics within one session. If you share a Pinterest link to PinClip from another app, that link is held in session storage only until it is prefilled once or expires after 10 minutes.

3. Cookies

PinClip does not use analytics cookies. OpenPanel processes the IP address transiently to derive approximate location and a daily rotating anonymous visitor identifier, then discards the raw IP address. PinClip uses browser local and session storage for the separate random service identifier and installed-web-app state described above; clearing site data resets local state, while session state expires with the browser session.

4. Third parties

Media files are downloaded from Pinterest's public content-delivery servers (pinimg.com). Your request for a specific pin is sent to Pinterest to retrieve that content. We are not affiliated with Pinterest, Inc.

We use OpenPanel and Plausible for privacy-conscious website and product analytics, self-hosted on infrastructure we control. They receive only the anonymous analytics data described above.

5. Advertising

PinClip is free because it may show advertising. When ads are displayed, they are served by third-party advertising vendors, including Google. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies — including IP addresses and device identifiers — to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.

Where the law requires it — for example for visitors in the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom — we will ask for your consent before personalized advertising is served, and we will fall back to non-personalized advertising when consent is not given. You can opt out of personalized advertising at any time via Google Ads Settings, and you can control or delete cookies through your browser settings. Further information about how Google uses data when you use our partners' sites or apps is available in Google's privacy policy for partner sites.

6. Your rights & contact

We do not use analytics to identify you and do not sell visitor data. For any privacy question or request, contact contact@pinclip.app.