CloudLink privacy statement
Last updated: 16 October 2026
CloudLink is a program that runs on your own computer. AMG Cloud Engineering, its publisher, operates no service for it, and CloudLink sends the publisher nothing: no account details, no file names, no usage statistics.
CloudLink is also published in the Microsoft Store, as AMG CloudLink. If you install it from there, the Store installs and updates it under Microsoft's own privacy statement, and Microsoft shows the publisher summary figures about installs, use and crashes of the Store version, including crash reports that Windows error reporting collects. Whether such reports are sent is decided by the diagnostic data setting in Windows. The publisher uses them only to find faults. CloudLink itself still sends nothing.
What CloudLink communicates with
Only the services you ask it to download from, and only from your computer:
| Service | What is exchanged |
|---|---|
| Microsoft (sign-in, Microsoft Graph, OneDrive and SharePoint storage) | Your sign-in, made in your browser on Microsoft's own pages; the share links you paste; requests to list and download the files behind them. |
| Google (sign-in, Google Drive API) | The same, for Google Drive links; if you use an API key instead of signing in, that key. |
Those exchanges are covered by Microsoft's and Google's own privacy statements. CloudLink contains no telemetry, analytics, advertising or update check, and contacts no other party. The guide and privacy buttons open pages on amgcloud.io, github.com, Microsoft and Google in your browser.
When its window comes to the front and the link box is empty, CloudLink looks at the text on the clipboard to see whether it is a share link, and puts it in the box if it is. Other text is ignored and not kept. Nothing from the clipboard is written to disk or sent anywhere.
What CloudLink is allowed to do with your account
| Service | Permission | What CloudLink does with it |
|---|---|---|
| Microsoft | Read and write access to files you can reach (Files.ReadWrite.All), your basic profile (User.Read), and staying signed in (offline_access) | Opens share links and downloads the files in them; shows which account is signed in. Microsoft requires a read-write permission to open share links, but CloudLink never uploads, changes or deletes files. Opening a link records your account as having opened it, exactly as opening it in a browser does. |
Read-only access to Drive (drive.readonly) | Lists and downloads the files behind the links you paste. |
CloudLink never sees your password.
What CloudLink keeps on your computer
In one folder, whose address Help shows:
CloudLink.exefrom GitHub:%LOCALAPPDATA%\CloudLink;- installed from the Microsoft Store: a folder named
CloudLinkinside the app's own data folder,%LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\AMGCloudEngineering.AMGCloudLink_zwcny3vzz9sd6\LocalCache\Local\CloudLink.
It holds:
- your settings, including the address of each signed-in account and the last folder you saved to (not encrypted);
- your sign-ins (refresh tokens) and, if you entered them, your Google API key and client secret, all encrypted with Windows data protection for your Windows account;
- a log containing file names and error messages, which helps when something goes wrong. It contains no passwords, tokens or keys, and is never sent anywhere.
The files you download are saved where you choose.
Removing it
- Sign out with the account buttons in CloudLink; this deletes the stored sign-in. Changing the application ID in Settings deletes the sign-in made through the old one as well.
- Delete the folder named above to remove everything CloudLink stored. Uninstalling the Microsoft Store version removes its folder as well;
CloudLink.exeleaves its folder until you delete it. - Withdraw the permission at the service: Microsoft personal accounts at https://account.live.com/consent/Manage, work or school accounts at https://myapps.microsoft.com, Google at https://myaccount.google.com/permissions.
Questions
Open an issue at https://github.com/lukasz-gratkowski/cloud-link/issues, or use the contact on https://amgcloud.io/support/. For a security problem, see SECURITY.md.