Privacy Policy

1. Scope

This policy covers the MinoSSH application for macOS, distributed through the Mac App Store, and this website. It explains what the app stores on your device, what it sends over the network, and what choices you have.

It does not cover the servers you connect to. Those are machines you or someone else administer, and their own policies apply to the data you keep on them.

2. What we collect

Nothing. The app has no account system, no sign-in, no cloud service and no server of ours to send anything to. Specifically, MinoSSH does not collect, transmit or have access to:

• your name, email address or any other contact details;
• the servers you connect to, or the credentials you use for them;
• your shell commands, terminal output, or the files you upload and download;
• usage statistics, feature telemetry, crash reports or diagnostics data;
• device identifiers, advertising identifiers or location data.

There is no third-party analytics SDK, no advertising SDK and no crash-reporting SDK in the app. Consistent with this, the App Store privacy label for MinoSSH reads “Data Not Collected”.

3. What is stored on your Mac

The app keeps its working data in its own folder inside your user Library. Nothing in this list is uploaded anywhere.

About saved passwords. We would rather you hear this from us than discover it later: a password you ticked “save to site” for is stored in plain text inside sites.json, protected only by your Mac's file permissions and by any disk encryption you have enabled (FileVault). That is a deliberate trade-off for a local utility — but it means anyone who can read your user account's files can read those passwords, and any backup you make includes that file.

If that matters to you, leave the password field empty and type it when you connect. On the connection prompt, keep “save to site” unticked: the password is then held in memory for that session only and discarded when you disconnect or close the tab.

4. Network connections

MinoSSH opens network connections for one purpose only: to talk to the SSH server you have told it to use. Traffic goes directly from your Mac to that server. There is no proxy, no relay and no intermediary service of ours.

The app does not implement its own SSH or cryptography. It runs the ssh and scp programs that ship with macOS, so the connection is negotiated by OpenSSH exactly as it is on the command line. Host keys are recorded in your existing known_hosts: a host you have not connected to before is accepted and pinned automatically, and a host whose key later changes is refused. Authentication data is passed to those programs through a private temporary helper file that is deleted when the connection command finishes.

The app contains no background updater and does not contact us, Apple, or anyone else to check for updates. Updates are delivered by the Mac App Store.

5. Access to your files

MinoSSH reads files on your Mac only where you direct it: the file you pick to upload, and the folder you pick to download into. Those choices are made in the standard macOS Open and Save panels, and the Mac App Store build is sandboxed, so it cannot reach anything you have not chosen. Nothing is uploaded to us at any point — the destination is always your own server.

Remote files are read and written only when you ask: opening a folder lists it, and a delete removes what you selected after a confirmation.

6. What we receive

The only information we ever receive is what you choose to send us by email. If you write to gavy417@gmail.com, we will have your email address and whatever you include in the message.

We use that only to answer your question and fix the problem. We do not add you to a mailing list, we do not sell or share it, and we keep it no longer than needed for support. You can ask us to delete it at any time.

Please be careful what you paste into an email: terminal output and server addresses are fine, private keys and passwords are not. If you need to share a command that contains a secret, replace the secret first.

7. Your choices and control

• Remove a saved site and its password — delete the site in the site list, or remove sites.json from the app's folder.
• Keep passwords out of the file — never tick “save to site” on the connection prompt.
• Clear bookmarks or common commands — delete the corresponding .json file, or edit them in the app.
• Remove everything — delete the app, then remove its Application Support/MinoSSH folder; that erases sites, bookmarks, commands, layout and the language preference in one go.

8. Children

MinoSSH is a developer tool intended for general audiences. It is not directed at children, and because it collects no personal information at all, it collects none from children either.

9. Changes to this policy

If this policy changes — for example, if a future version adds a feature that needs to send something over the network — the new version will be published on this page with an updated date above. We will not quietly widen what the app does with your data.

10. Contact

Questions about this policy, or about privacy in MinoSSH generally, go to gavy417@gmail.com.