Privacy Policy

Effective October 2, 2026

PhotoCargo is a Mac app by Ashutosh Kumar (“we”). In short: PhotoCargo doesn’t collect your data. Your photos, and the records of what was copied, stay on your Mac and the drives you choose.

The app collects nothing

PhotoCargo has no accounts, analytics, advertising or tracking, and contains no third-party code that collects data. We run no servers for the app. The app doesn’t send your photos, details about your library or how you use the app to us or to anyone else.

What the app uses on your Mac

• Your Photos library. With your permission, PhotoCargo reads details of the items in your library, such as dates, types, sizes, file names, favorites and the albums they’re in, to show totals and find the items you choose. It reads original files only for the items it copies. It never changes or deletes anything in your library. You can turn access off at any time in System Settings > Privacy & Security > Photos.
• Folders you choose. PhotoCargo writes copies only to folders you select, and reads them back to verify them.
• Transfer records. To resume, verify and repair transfers, PhotoCargo keeps a record of each transfer, such as the items copied and their Photos library IDs, the copies’ names and folders, and their checksums, in its private storage on your Mac. These records stay on your Mac unless you save a recovery backup, and PhotoCargo never sends them anywhere.
• Recovery backups. If you choose Save Recovery Backup, PhotoCargo saves a transfer’s records where you choose. A backup contains that transfer’s records, such as its settings, file and folder names, Photos library IDs, dates taken and checksums, but no photos or videos, so keep it as private as the copies themselves.
• Notifications. If you turn them on, PhotoCargo shows a notification on your Mac when a transfer finishes or pauses. Notifications contain no file names.

Services provided by Apple

PhotoCargo relies on Apple for two things, which are covered by Apple’s Privacy Policy:

• iCloud Photos. When an original is stored in iCloud, Photos downloads it for PhotoCargo through your iCloud account.
• The App Store. The App Store tells PhotoCargo the price of Unlimited and whether you’ve bought it, and Apple processes the purchase and Restore Purchases. We never see your payment details, and the sales reports Apple gives us don’t identify you.

If you choose to share analytics with app developers in your Mac’s settings, Apple may share crash reports and similar diagnostics with us. We use them only to fix problems.

This website

This website uses no analytics or tracking, sets no cookies of its own and loads nothing from other websites. It’s hosted by Cloudflare, which processes technical information such as IP addresses to deliver and protect the site, as described in Cloudflare’s Privacy Policy. To block automated traffic, Cloudflare may sometimes set a strictly necessary security cookie.

Email

If you write to us, we use your message and email address only to reply and to help you. Our email is hosted by Zoho (Zoho’s Privacy Policy). We keep messages only as long as needed to help you, and delete them if you ask.

Your rights

We use emails you send us only to answer you, based on our legitimate interest in helping PhotoCargo’s users. You can ask to see, correct or delete them by writing to contact@aneat.app. Depending on where you live, you may also object to this use or complain to your data protection authority. Cloudflare and Zoho may process information in other countries, with the safeguards described in their privacy policies.

Children

PhotoCargo is suitable for all ages and doesn’t collect personal information from anyone, including children.

Changes

If this policy changes, we’ll update this page and its effective date.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Write to contact@aneat.app.