Privacy Policy

The whole policy, honestly

DragIn1 collects nothing. No accounts, no sign-in, no analytics, no tracking, no cookies, no advertising, and no third-party SDKs. The desktop helper makes no network connections of any kind, and the extension talks only to that helper on your own machine. A file you drag is copied to your own disk and handed to whatever you drop it on. That is the entire data flow, and because the helper's source is public you do not have to take our word for it.

The desktop helper

When you drop an attachment on DragIn1, it asks the source application for the file and writes the result to your own machine at %LOCALAPPDATA%\DragIn1\. Those files are yours, they stay on your disk, and DragIn1 deletes them automatically after seven days. You can open the folder, copy anything out of it, or empty it yourself at any time.

The helper makes no network connections. There are no accounts, no licence checks, no update pings and no analytics. It installs no services, drivers, shell extensions or scheduled tasks, needs no administrator rights, and loads no code into any other process. Uninstalling asks whether to keep the files it captured, and leaves nothing behind either way.

The Chrome extension

The extension exists to hand a dragged file to the upload control on the page you drop it onto. It requests two things, and uses them only for that:

• Access to the sites you use. A web page's uploader has to receive the file from within that page, so the extension needs permission to act on the page you drop onto. It does not read your browsing history, monitor the pages you visit, or collect page content.
• Native messaging. This is the channel the extension uses to receive the dragged file from the DragIn1 helper running locally. It connects to that helper and to nothing else.

The extension has no server of its own. Nothing you drag is uploaded to us, and the extension sends no data to any third party. Without the desktop helper installed, the extension has nothing to receive and does nothing at all.

What we never do

• Upload, read, or retain the contents of your files.
• Collect names, email addresses, or any other identifier.
• Track your browsing, or record which sites you visit.
• Sell, rent, or share data with anyone, because we hold none.
• Show advertising, or build a profile of you.

Verifying any of this

A privacy policy is a promise, and promises are worth more when you can check them. The helper is MIT licensed and its full source is public, every release is built by a public workflow that publishes a SHA256 you can compare against your download, and you can build the whole thing yourself from source instead of running ours. The repository and the code signing policy spell out exactly what is installed and what changes on your system.

Your rights

Privacy laws such as the GDPR and CCPA give users rights over their personal data. Because we collect no personal data through DragIn1, we hold nothing about you to access, correct, delete, or transfer. DragIn1 is likewise consistent with COPPA, since it collects no information from anyone, children included.

Changes and contact

If this policy ever changes, the date above updates and the current version always lives at this URL. Questions, or anything that looks wrong: