Your files stay in the tab

Merge Images joins local files into one PNG in a toolbar workspace tab. Merge is the one job. File bytes are drawn on a canvas in the tab and are not written into extension storage. This page is the privacy story for that job.

What the workspace reads

• Local files you choose. PNG, JPEG, or WebP from your disk through the OS file picker. Bytes stay in the tab until you download the PNG or close the tab.
• Axis preference. Horizontal or Vertical. The last choice sits under mergeImagesPrefs in extension storage on this profile.
• Download PNG. The merged file goes through Chrome downloads on this computer. We do not receive a copy.

What we measure

We count installations, and that is the only measurement in this extension. The welcome page shown once after installing loads a single 1x1 image from Yandex Metrica, a service of YANDEX LLC, acting as our processor. Yandex receives the request itself: your IP address, your browser user agent, the time, and a cookie Yandex sets for its own domain. We see only the resulting count and the approximate region Yandex derives from the IP address. No list, no card, no file, no setting and no identifier of you is part of that request, and nothing of the kind appears anywhere else in the extension: the working surface makes no network request at all. If you do not want this count, block mc.yandex.ru in your browser before you install, or use the Yandex Metrica opt-out at https://yandex.com/support/metrica/en/general/opt-out.html. Closing the welcome page after it has loaded does not undo the request that already happened.

• The welcome page you see after installing is part of the extension itself, not a website. It loads one 1x1 pixel image from Yandex Metrica (mc.yandex.ru) so that we can count how many people installed the extension. That request carries your IP address, your browser user agent and the time, the way any image request does, and Yandex sets its own cookie for its own domain. It carries nothing from your work, it runs no script, and it exists on this page only: no other page of this extension contacts anyone.
• An optional form on removal. When you remove the extension, Chrome may open a short form in a new tab, if one has been set up for this version. Answering is optional. The address carries no parameters from your work. The form, when published, is a Google Form hosted by Google LLC under Google's own privacy policy.

Children

Merge Images is intended for users 13 and older. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children.

Changes

If this policy changes in a later version, the date at the bottom of this page will move. The packed extension always carries the policy that matches that build.

Contact

Privacy contact: the feedback form at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeplYGMFFQlM3oP92yACd0h2fDhKvrg0-kK2a5Pd2nPWaQODw/viewform?hl=en (a Google Form the owner controls; no email address is published).