What PeekPic stores, and where
Everything below lives in your browser's local extension storage, on your device:
- Your settings — key bindings, activation delay, preview size, animation, reverse-search choice, preload toggle, and the sites where you turned PeekPic off
- Local usage counters — an install date and a count of previews shown, used only to time the occasional "buy me a coffee" note inside the popup. These counters never leave your device
None of this is transmitted to us or anyone else. Uninstalling the extension deletes it. The export feature writes this data to a file on your device that only you control.
Network requests PeekPic makes
PeekPic contacts no PeekPic or niallcodes server — there isn't one. Its only network activity is loading images, from the same image hosts the page you're viewing already references:
- The image you hover (core function). To show a full-size preview, PeekPic loads the full-size version of the hovered thumbnail from the page's own image host — the same kind of request your browser makes to display any image. By default nothing is loaded for images you don't hover, with one exception: while you're actively stepping through a gallery with the arrow keys, the next image is loaded so the step is instant.
- Preload (optional, OFF by default). If you switch on "Preload images ahead of time" in settings, PeekPic loads full-size versions of the page's images before you hover them, using more data. This is clearly labelled where you enable it, and off unless you choose it. When off, the behaviour above applies exactly.
- Reverse image search (optional, OFF by default, per keypress). If you enable reverse search in settings and then press the search key on a preview, PeekPic opens your chosen search engine (Google Lens, Bing, Yandex or TinEye) in a new tab with the image's web address. That engine then knows you searched for that image address; its own privacy policy applies. Nothing is ever sent anywhere without that explicit keypress.
That is the complete list. PeekPic never sends page content, browsing history, or any behavioural data anywhere.
What PeekPic does on pages
On any page you visit, PeekPic locally examines the image under your mouse cursor (and the page markup around it) to work out the address of its full-size version. This processing happens entirely in your browser and never leaves your device. Saving an image downloads it to your browser's standard Downloads folder; copying places it on your clipboard.
Third-party links
PeekPic links to Ko-fi (donations) and niallcodes.com (our other tools). These open in a new tab and have their own privacy policies; nothing is sent to them by the extension itself.
Data sales and sharing
We do not sell, share, or monetise any data. There is nothing to sell.
Who we are
PeekPic is published by Florence Publishing Ltd (United Kingdom), trading as niallcodes. Contact: hello@niallcodes.com.
Changes
Any change to this policy will be listed in the extension's changelog and reflected in the effective date above.