Effective date: 24 August 2026
Publisher: Kick Technic Limited, a company registered in England and Wales, company number 11925772.
Contact: support@kicktechnic.co.uk
QwiRky is made by Kick Technic Limited. It builds QR codes and reads them back. This policy covers both apps — the Android app on Google Play and the Windows app on the Microsoft Store — and says exactly what each one does and does not do with what you put into it.
Translations are in docs/i18n/ — German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, European Portuguese and Simplified Chinese. They are provided for convenience; this English version governs. The Windows app shows the policy in whichever of those languages it is set to, falling back to this one.
QwiRky does not collect anything about you. There are no accounts, no analytics, no advertising, no crash reporting, and no telemetry of any kind. Nothing you type is sent anywhere, and nothing you type is saved between sessions.
The content of a code — text, a web address, a Wi‑Fi name and password, a contact's details, an email, an SMS, a phone number — is held in memory while the app is open and is not written to disk. It is not in the settings file, and there is no field in the settings file that could hold it. That is deliberate, and a Wi‑Fi password typed into a QR generator is exactly why.
Closing the app discards it. Exporting a code writes an image file to the location you choose, and that image contains the code you built, because that is what a QR code is.
Only your preferences, in a small file on your own device:
%APPDATA%\QwiRky\settings.json — the colour theme and accent, which way the navigation rail runs, the display language you chose, the window's size and position, and the generator settings you last used (colours, export format and size, and the settings applied to a centre picture). Copies of the pictures you chose sit beside it in %APPDATA%\QwiRky\pictures\.Both are ordinary application data. Uninstalling the app removes them. Neither is transmitted anywhere.
Pictures. If you choose a picture to place in the centre of a code, or to take colours from, both apps keep a copy in the app's own storage so the picture still works after a restart. That copy stays on your device, is replaced whenever you choose a different picture, and goes when the app is uninstalled. The original file is read once and never touched again. A remembered picture is offered on the next launch, never applied on its own.
The Windows app makes no network connections at all. Its Microsoft Store package declares no network capability. The web-address check on Windows is structural only — it looks at the shape of what you typed and never contacts the address. Choosing "open in a browser" hands the address to Windows, which opens your browser; that connection is your browser's, not QwiRky's.
The Android app connects only when you ask it to check a website. Tapping the check on a web address sends a single HEAD request (falling back to GET if the server rejects HEAD) to the address you typed, so it can tell you whether the site answers and whether it redirects somewhere else. That request goes to that website and nowhere else. It is not sent unless you ask for it, and nothing about it is recorded. Plain http:// addresses are not contacted at all.
The Android app declares the INTERNET permission for that one feature.
The Android app uses the camera to scan codes, and asks for permission the first time. Camera frames are analysed on your device, in memory, to look for a code. No frame is saved, and no frame leaves your device. The Windows app has no camera feature and asks for no camera permission.
Nothing, until you tell it to. A scanned code is treated as untrusted — it came from a picture someone else made — so QwiRky shows you exactly what it contains and never opens a link, dials a number or joins a network on its own. Every one of those is a separate, deliberate action you take after reading what the code says.
QwiRky is not directed at children and collects nothing from anyone.
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it, and the Windows app re-shows its first-run terms so you see it.
QwiRky is published by Kick Technic Limited, a company registered in England and Wales, company number 11925772.