# PixelUnion
> Privacy-first European photo and video storage built on Immich. An alternative to US Big Tech cloud photo services, hosted in the EU (Netherlands) under GDPR.

PixelUnion stores your photos for storage only — not for AI training, advertising, or profiling. Prefer the Markdown (`.md`) links below when available; they are easier for agents to ingest than HTML.

English content only. Translated HTML pages exist under language prefixes (`/nl/`, `/de/`, etc.) via hreflang.

## Help
- [Help Center map](https://pixelunion.eu/help/llms.txt): Curated index of all help articles (account, Immich, migrating, FAQs)
- [General FAQ](https://pixelunion.eu/help/other/general-faq/index.md): Frequently asked questions about PixelUnion

- [Getting Started](https://pixelunion.eu/help/account/getting-started/index.md): Learn how to set up your PixelUnion account

- [Privacy & Security FAQ](https://pixelunion.eu/help/other/privacy-security-faq/index.md): Frequently asked questions about privacy and security

- [Pricing & Features FAQ](https://pixelunion.eu/help/other/pricing-features-faq/index.md): Frequently asked questions about pricing and features

- [Migrate from Google Photos](https://pixelunion.eu/help/migrating/migrate-google-photos/index.md): Transfer your Google Photos library to PixelUnion with Google Takeout and the in-browser migration tool

- [Account FAQ](https://pixelunion.eu/help/account/account-faq/index.md): Frequently asked questions about account management

- [Immich FAQ](https://pixelunion.eu/help/immich/immich-faq/index.md): Frequently asked questions about Immich features and compatibility


## Company
- [About Open Source](https://pixelunion.eu/about/open-source/index.md): Learn about the open-source foundation of our platform

- [About PixelUnion](https://pixelunion.eu/about/pixelunion/index.md): Get to know us! Our mission, values and the story behind PixelUnion.


## Legal
- [Responsible Disclosure ](https://pixelunion.eu/legal/responsible-disclosure/index.md)

- [Privacy Policy](https://pixelunion.eu/legal/privacy-policy/index.md)

- [Acceptable Use Policy](https://pixelunion.eu/legal/uap/index.md)

- [Legal Contact](https://pixelunion.eu/legal/contact/index.md)

- [Terms of Service](https://pixelunion.eu/legal/terms-of-service/index.md)


## Optional
- [Full help corpus](https://pixelunion.eu/llms-full.txt): Concatenated English help articles for bulk ingest
- [How to export your Google Photos library without losing the metadata](https://pixelunion.eu/blog/how-to-keep-metadata-when-exporting-google-photos/index.md): Google Takeout hands you a folder of photos and a pile of JSON files, and if you just unzip and open them, your dates and locations are gone. Here is how I got my library out with the metadata intact.

- [Google and Apple Now Call Lake Ontario "Lake America"](https://pixelunion.eu/blog/09/lake-ontarino/index.md): Google and Apple updated their world maps within days at the request of the White House. It exposes just how vulnerable our dependence on American Big Tech really is.

- [Meta's Addiction Machine Is on Trial](https://pixelunion.eu/blog/2026/08/meta-trial/index.md): Meta is facing a massive lawsuit over deliberately hooking children and teenagers on its platforms. Here's why PixelUnion offers a different path.

- [The Digital Guillotine: A Wake-Up Call for Your Data](https://pixelunion.eu/blog/2026/08/digital-guillotine/index.md): The US campaign against the ICC shows how easily a person's entire digital life can be deleted by executive order. Here's why that matters for where you store your data.

- [What is data sovereignty, and why does it matter for your photos?](https://pixelunion.eu/blog/what-is-data-sovereignty/index.md): Data sovereignty is one of those phrases that shows up in every privacy policy and rarely gets explained. Here is what it actually means, what it does not mean, and why the difference matters for the photos you store online.

- [immich-archiver: mirroring your photo library to your own disk](https://pixelunion.eu/blog/2026/07/immich-archiver/index.md): We built a small open-source tool that copies your PixelUnion library to a folder on your own hard drive, with the full metadata preserved alongside every file. Here is how it works and what it does not do yet.

- [€890 million fine for Google, Google's invisible wall!](https://pixelunion.eu/blog/2026/07/google-dma-boete/index.md): Google has again been fined hundreds of millions by the European Commission for breaching the Digital Markets Act. What does 'self-preferencing' mean for creators and their images?

- [The AI inside your photo library, and why we moved it onto our own GPUs](https://pixelunion.eu/blog/2026/07/ai-on-our-own-gpus/index.md): Immich runs three machine learning jobs to make your photos searchable: smart search, face recognition, and OCR. Here is what each one does, the models behind them, and why we now run them on our own graphics cards instead of on CPUs.

- [Why it's time to leave Google Photos](https://pixelunion.eu/blog/2026/07/time-to-leave-google/index.md): Google Photos is cheap and convenient, but you pay with your privacy. We lay out the risks and show why a European alternative is worth it.

- [Immich v3.0 Is Here](https://pixelunion.eu/blog/2026/07/immich-v3/index.md): The first major version bump since v2: a proper photo editor on mobile, automated workflows, far more reliable Android backups, and a new video player. Here's what changed for you.