Privacy

MakeTheQR makes QR codes in your browser. This page describes exactly what that means for your data, in plain terms rather than legal ones.

What you type never reaches us

The link, the Wi-Fi password, the contact details, the calendar event: all of it is turned into a QR code by code running on your own device. None of it is sent to a server, because there is no server to send it to. This site is a set of static pages, with no API and no database behind it.

You can check this. Load the page, disconnect from the internet, and the generator keeps working - filling in fields, redrawing the code, downloading the PNG. Software that needed to send your data somewhere could not do that.

No account, and nothing to sign up for

There is no registration, no email address to hand over, and no login. We hold no record of you because we never collect one.

What we do count

We count a small number of anonymous events so we know which tools are worth improving: that a QR code was generated, that a PNG or an SVG was downloaded, that a type was selected, that a logo was added.

These events record the kind of code and its size in bytes. They deliberately carry no field capable of holding the content itself - not the URL, not the password, not the contact card. That is enforced in the code rather than promised in this paragraph: the event type has no free-text field to put such a thing in. We also honour the browser Do Not Track setting, and record nothing at all when it is on.

Cookies

We set no cookies for tracking, advertising or profiling. There is no advertising on this site and no third-party analytics script.

Your logo, if you add one

An image you add to the middle of a code is read by your browser and drawn into the picture on your device. It is not uploaded anywhere, and it disappears when you close the tab.

The codes themselves

Every code made here is static: the content is encoded in the pattern itself rather than pointing at a redirect we control. We therefore cannot see when one is scanned, count scans, or change where a code goes after you have downloaded it. Nobody can, including us.

Getting in touch

MakeTheQR is part of MakeThe.com, and questions about this page can go there.