Privacy Policy

Our Privacy Commitment

TakeoutReader was built with privacy as its core principle. Your Google Takeout data is processed 100% in your web browser. We never upload, transmit, store, or access any of your personal data. Period.

How Your Data Is Processed

When you open a Google Takeout ZIP file in TakeoutReader, the file is read and parsed entirely using JavaScript running in your browser. The processing happens locally on your device using the browser's built-in file APIs. No data is ever sent to our servers or any third-party service.

Your report data is temporarily stored in your browser's session storage to persist through the Stripe payment redirect. This data is automatically cleared when you close your browser tab or click "Start over."

What We Do NOT Collect

• Your Google Takeout file contents (location history, searches, YouTube data, etc.)
• Your Google account credentials or login information
• Your generated report data
• Any personally identifiable information from your Google export
• The name of the file you open

Payment Processing

Payments are processed securely by Stripe, a PCI-compliant payment processor. TakeoutReader never sees or stores your credit card details. Stripe's privacy policy applies to the payment transaction.

Anonymous Usage Analytics

To understand where the site is confusing and improve it, we use PostHog, hosted in the European Union. It records how visitors use the site: pages viewed, buttons clicked, how far a page is scrolled, and anonymous session replays of the site's interface.

Everything drawn from your file (your report, your map, your places, your file name) is excluded from recording in the browser, before anything is sent. In a replay it appears as an empty grey box. The only facts we record about your export are counts and categories, such as "4 data sources found" or "12 years of history". We may publish these counts added up across many exports, such as the share of exports that contain YouTube history, as in our Google Takeout statistics. Nothing about any single export is ever published.

We do not use cookies for analytics. A random anonymous identifier is kept in your browser's session storage for the length of your visit and is deleted when you close the tab. We do not link it to your name, email or payment. We do not use advertising pixels.

Email Reminders

On the guide pages you can leave your email address to be reminded, once, that your Google Takeout export is probably ready. If you do, your address and the time you chose are handed to Resend, the email delivery service that sends the message. We use your address for that one reminder and for nothing else: no newsletter, no marketing, no sharing. We do not keep a list of addresses ourselves. Resend holds the address for as long as it needs to deliver the email and keep its delivery logs, under its own privacy policy. Our analytics only record that a reminder was requested, from which page and for when, never the address.

Third-Party Services

TakeoutReader uses three third-party services: Stripe for payment processing, PostHog (EU cloud) for the anonymous usage analytics described above, and Resend to deliver the email reminder described above, only if you ask for one. We do not integrate with Facebook or any advertising platform.

Reading the Site in Another Language

The site is written in English and in Spanish, by us: choosing Español in the header opens the Spanish pages, and no translation service is involved. If your browser offers to translate a page into another language, that translation is your browser's, under its own privacy policy.

Everything drawn from your export, from figures and places to names and file names, is marked so that your browser's translation does not send it anywhere.

GDPR & Data Rights

Your Google Takeout data never leaves your device, so there is none of it to request, modify, or delete. Usage analytics are anonymous and processed in the EU. If you would like your analytics data removed anyway, contact us and we will delete it.