Privacy Policy for Collate

Last updated: July 8, 2026

Collate is a macOS app for merging images and PDFs into a single document. This policy explains what happens to your data when you use it.

Summary

Collate does not collect, store, transmit, or share any of your data. Everything happens entirely on your Mac.

What Collate does with your files

• Collate only accesses files you explicitly choose — by opening them through the file picker, dragging them into the app’s window, sending them from Finder with the “Send to Collate” Services menu entry, or passing them to the “Merge Files” action in Shortcuts.
• All processing — importing, reordering, OCR text recognition, compression, and PDF export — happens locally on your device using Apple's own system frameworks (Vision, PDFKit, Core Graphics). Your files never leave your Mac.
• Collate does not have network access and makes no internet connections. It cannot send your files, their contents, or any information about them anywhere, because it has no code path capable of doing so.

Data collection

Collate does not collect:

• Personal information
• Usage analytics or telemetry
• Crash reports (beyond what macOS itself may collect system-wide, which you control separately in System Settings)
• Any identifiers, advertising or otherwise

Collate has no accounts, no sign-in, and no server component of any kind.

Third parties

Collate does not integrate any third-party SDKs, analytics services, or advertising frameworks. Nothing is shared with anyone, because nothing is collected in the first place.

Children's privacy

Collate does not knowingly collect information from anyone, including children, for the reasons above.

Changes to this policy

If this policy ever changes — for example, if a future version of Collate adds a feature that does involve data collection — this document will be updated and the change will be reflected in the “Last updated” date above.

Contact

Questions about this policy can be sent to: contact@wasseem.dev.