Privacy Policy

Who we are

Magpie is made by Gooder, a design studio. This policy covers the Magpie app for Mac, the Send to Magpie browser extension, and this website. Questions go to hello@gooder.design.

The Magpie app

Everything you put on a board is saved in a folder on your Mac: stickies, text, saved posts, links, pictures, and your settings. None of it is sent to us, because we don’t run a server for it.

The app has no analytics, advertising or tracking tools.

When the app goes online

Magpie only contacts websites connected to what you save. Those sites see an ordinary request from your Mac, including its internet address, as they would from a browser. They don’t receive your boards.

• Links. When you save a link, Magpie visits that page to get its title and picture. If the page has no picture, Magpie may load it out of sight and keep a picture of the page.
• Saved posts. Profile pictures and images in a saved post load from the site that hosts them.
• YouTube. For a saved video, Magpie gets the title and thumbnail from YouTube. Playing it on a board uses YouTube’s own player, so YouTube’s terms and Google’s privacy policy apply.

The browser extension

Send to Magpie adds a button to posts on X and LinkedIn. It passes what it reads straight to the Magpie app on your Mac, using your browser’s direct link to the app. Nothing goes to us or to anyone else.

• When you send a post, it reads that post: the author’s name, handle and picture, the text, the link, the time, and the addresses of its images.
• To show what you’ve already saved, it checks the addresses of the posts on your screen against your boards. That check happens on your Mac.
• When you use the toolbar button or right-click “Send to board” on any site, it sends that page’s or link’s address and title. If you’re saving the page itself, it also sends a picture of what’s on your screen in that tab.

It doesn’t record your browsing history, and it doesn’t read anything else on other sites. Send to Magpie’s use of this information complies with the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including its Limited Use requirements.

This website

• Your email. If you sign up, we keep your email address so we can tell you about Magpie, and for nothing else. We first send one email asking you to confirm, so nobody can sign you up but you. Loops, our email service, stores and sends it for us and can’t use it for anything of its own. We keep it until you unsubscribe or ask us to remove it.
• No trackers or cookies. The site remembers whether you turned sound on, and a note for your current visit. Both stay in your browser. Its fonts and pictures all come from this site, so no other company sees your visit.
• Our web host keeps ordinary technical records of requests, as every website host does.

Apple

Apple handles downloads and any payments through the App Store, under its own privacy policy. If you’ve chosen to share crash data with app developers in your Mac’s settings, Apple may pass us crash reports that don’t identify you.

Your choices

• Remove a board. Delete it in Magpie, then empty the Trash in Finder.
• Remove everything. The Support page shows how.
• Remove your email. Use the unsubscribe link in any email, or write to us.

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to see, correct or delete the personal information we hold, or to complain to your local data protection authority. The only personal information we hold is the email address you gave us and anything you send us when you write to us. Write to hello@gooder.design and we’ll help.

Children

Magpie isn’t aimed at children under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect their information. If you think a child has given us an email address, tell us and we’ll remove it.

Changes

If this policy changes, we’ll update this page and the date at the top.