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GPRaw Privacy Policy
Effective October 17, 2026
GPRaw collects nothing. No personal information, no analytics, no usage data, no identifiers, no crash reports. No accounts, no advertising, no third-party services. Your photos and your data never leave your Mac unless you send them somewhere yourself.
GPRaw is a macOS app that renders, converts, and edits GoPro GPR raw photos. Everything below is just the detail behind that. It is about the app; the website, gpraw.com, has its own section at the end.
Your photos
All decoding, editing, and exporting happens locally on your Mac. GPRaw never uploads or transmits your photos. It reads only the files you open, select in Finder, or drop on it — plus, through its Finder and Quick Look extensions, the GPR files macOS asks it to thumbnail or preview, which are likewise rendered entirely on your Mac. Portrait blur and automatic orientation detection run machine-learning models bundled with the app, alongside Apple’s own on-device image analysis, and none of it sends anything anywhere. When you share a photo yourself — with Quick Share, AirDrop, Messages, or Mail — it goes where you send it, through macOS, and nowhere else.
Photos library access
Adding exported images to your Photos library is optional. If you turn it on, GPRaw requests add-only access from macOS: it can save new items into your library but can never read, change, or delete your existing photos. If you decline, everything else still works — exports simply go to files.
Purchases
Any purchase is handled by Apple through the App Store, and so is any offer code you redeem. GPRaw never sees or stores your payment details — it only learns whether a purchase is active, and when a pass granted by an offer code ends.
Network
GPRaw makes two kinds of network connection, and this section is all of them. Neither carries anything about you, your Mac, or your photos: there is no analytics, no crash reporting, and no remote content beyond the App Store’s release notes described below. Beyond those two, anything that leaves your Mac goes to Apple through macOS, or opens in your web browser from a link you choose — Help, Contact Us, or a store page. Both are described at the end of this section.
Checking for updates. When you open GPRaw, and when you choose Help > Check for Updates, GPRaw asks Apple’s App Store whether a newer version is available, so it can tell you and take you to the App Store page to update. The request carries GPRaw’s own app identifier and nothing else. Apple’s answer to that same request also carries the newer version’s release notes from the App Store, which GPRaw shows as plain text when it tells you. Like any connection to a web server, it also shows Apple the internet address your Mac connects from; what Apple does with a request it receives is covered by Apple’s privacy policy, and GPRaw neither sends nor keeps anything about you as part of it. If the check cannot be made — offline, or on a network that blocks it — GPRaw simply carries on. GPRaw’s Finder, Quick Look, and Photos extensions never make this request.
Connect GoPro. A GoPro connected by USB-C appears to macOS as a network device rather than as a disk, so reaching it is technically a network connection — to the camera on the end of the cable, and nowhere else. macOS asks your permission the first time. GPRaw uses it to read the camera’s name, model, serial number, and firmware version, which it needs to find and name the camera; to list the RAW photos on the card; and to copy the ones you choose into a folder you pick. None of that, and no photo, is sent anywhere.
GPRaw does not run a server and does not accept incoming connections of any kind. Earlier releases of GPRaw were not permitted to make network connections at all, with macOS itself enforcing that. Both features above needed that enforcement given up, because macOS cannot restrict an app’s network access to a single cable or a single server. What replaces it is this statement and the code that keeps it: the two connections above are the only ones GPRaw makes, and nothing about you or your photos leaves your Mac.
Apple’s own services. A few things GPRaw asks macOS to do reach Apple rather than GPRaw, and are covered by Apple’s privacy policy: buying or restoring the unlock through the App Store or redeeming an offer code there, the occasional system prompt asking you to rate GPRaw, and opening a photo’s location. If a photo carries GPS coordinates, clicking its location in the Info window opens that spot in Apple Maps, which sends those coordinates to Apple; GPRaw itself never looks them up. GPRaw learns nothing from any of these beyond whether the unlock is active, and until when.
This website
Everything above is about the app. The website at gpraw.com is a set of static pages hosted by Cloudflare, with no analytics, cookies, or tracking of our own. Like any web host, Cloudflare handles each request your browser makes, including your IP address, to deliver the page. One thing on it works differently: if you write to us, the contact page opens your own mail app, and what you send — your name, email address, and message — reaches our Microsoft 365 mailbox so that we can reply. We use it only to answer you.
Changes
If this policy ever changes, the updated version is posted at gpraw.com/privacy, which is where the app’s own Privacy Policy links go. Since GPRaw collects nothing, changes are expected to be editorial.
Contact
Questions about this policy: gpraw.com/contact