Private DownloaderPrivacy policy
Last updated 4 October 2026
The extension
Private Downloader collects no personal data. It runs entirely in your browser. It does not create accounts, send telemetry or crash reports, contact any server operated by us, or use any third-party service. Network requests go only to the website you are watching and its media servers, and only to save the video you chose.
The extension stores, in your browser's extension storage on your device: a license key if you enter one, a count of free downloads used, your last quality, output, subtitle, and save-location choices, the choices on its Settings page, a history of your last fifty completed saves (each file's name, size, and time), which Clear history removes and which never includes private-window saves, and, for the one-time note asking for a store rating, a count of completed saves and which save the note was shown under, both replaced by a single mark once you answer it. None of this leaves your device. The note's Rate it link only opens the store's page; we never learn whether you rated. Removing the extension deletes all of it. While a stream is being assembled, its temporary file lives in the extension's private storage on your device and is deleted when the download completes.
The popup shows a small still of each detected player, drawn locally from the video element on the page. When a video comes from another site, which a page cannot draw, its still is cropped from a capture of the visible page, taken in memory while the popup is open and discarded at once. No image is ever requested from a site for this purpose, and stills are never stored or included in reports.
Diagnostic reports are generated on your device only when you click Copy privacy-safe report. They contain fixed labels and counts: no page addresses, titles, tokens, cookies, license keys, or images. They are placed on your clipboard for you to read, share, or discard.
This website
This site is static and sets no cookies, runs no analytics, and loads nothing from third parties. It is hosted on Cloudflare Pages, which keeps standard, short-lived server logs for security and operation of the service under its own privacy policy.
Purchases
Purchases are sold through Link, LLC, Stripe's merchant of record, on a checkout page hosted by Stripe, which processes your card or wallet details and sends your receipt under its own privacy policy; we never see your full card number. The order is recorded in our Stripe account, which shows us the email address, name, and country you entered and the amount paid; we use them only to deliver your key, handle support, and process refunds. When you claim your key, the email address you bought with is used once to look up your order and is not stored by us. We never link any of this to extension usage, which is never reported. If you ask Link to delete your purchase data, the order record goes with it and your key can no longer be claimed again by email, so keep a copy of the key.