Private by architecture, not by promise.

The short version

Storage Insight does not track you, does not include an analytics or advertising SDK, and has no outbound network entitlement.

Storage evidence, scan history, treatments, and approval receipts stay in the app’s sandbox on your computer unless you explicitly choose an export or archive destination.

What Storage Insight reads

• Files and folders you explicitly choose with the native folder picker.
• Metadata needed to measure storage, such as allocated size, file type, and displayed modification dates.
• App-local settings, scan history, evidence, treatment choices, and approval receipts.
• Local Ollama manifest and Conda package metadata only when you explicitly authorize those folders.

What Storage Insight does not collect

• No advertising identifier, tracking profile, contact list, precise location, health, financial, or browsing data.
• No passwords, recovery keys, cloud tokens, environment-variable values, model prompts, database contents, or private source code.
• No population or aggregate storage intelligence in the current App Store build.

Folder permissions

Storage Insight starts without general filesystem authority. Folder access is granted through security-scoped bookmarks after you choose a location. You can review and revoke saved access from Privacy & Access in the app. A stale or revoked permission fails visibly and requires you to choose the folder again.

Archives and cloud providers

Storage Insight transfers data only after you select an archive boundary and separately approve the operation. The app does not silently traverse an entire cloud-provider account. Your provider processes any file you place there under its own terms and privacy policy.

The current App Store edition does not contact GitHub, Docker, Colima, PostgreSQL, or installed developer command-line tools. Those specialist integrations belong to the separately distributed Direct edition.

Retention and deletion

Local records remain on your computer until you remove them in Storage Insight or delete the app’s data. Exported archives and receipts remain wherever you chose to store them until you delete them there. Storage Insight cannot delete a provider copy after you revoke its folder permission.

Changes to this policy

If a future release enables an optional network or aggregate-intelligence service, the in-app disclosure, privacy manifest, App Store privacy answers, retention controls, and this policy will change before that release is distributed.

Contact

Questions and privacy requests can be emailed to macstorage@root777.com or submitted through the Storage Insight support page. Do not include recovery keys, credentials, or private file contents.