Privacy Policy

The app

What maXfolders (the App Store app and Pro) sends

Neither app phones home in the background, runs analytics, or embeds ads. The app generates one random identifier per install, stored locally on your Mac (not derived from any hardware serial number; the only hardware-derived value is the one-way trial hash described under the free trial below), and only sends network requests to maxfolders.com in these specific cases:

• Like

  If you tap Like in the app, it sends that per-install identifier and, if you supply one, your email address — used only to count likes and to recognize repeat submissions from the same install.

• Feedback

  If you submit a bug report or feature request from the app, it sends the per-install identifier, the email address you enter, and the title/description you write. Your IP address is recorded automatically by the server that receives the request, as it would be by any web request.

• Update check (maXfolders Pro only)

  The direct-download Pro edition periodically checks maxfolders.com for the current version number, sending the same per-install identifier. The Mac App Store app does not do this — Apple's own update mechanism handles it instead.

Beyond that, the app's only other network activity is whatever you explicitly configure yourself — an FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, S3, or Dropbox connection you set up, or Git operations against a repository you open. maXfolders never uploads, scans, or transmits the contents of your files anywhere on its own; file access is governed entirely by macOS itself (App Sandbox for the Mac App Store edition, Full Disk Access you grant explicitly for the direct-download Pro edition).

Apple Intelligence in the app uses Apple's on-device model, and only that. Text those features read — a passage, a diff, or a folder listing — stays on your Mac. It is not sent to maxfolders.com or to any other AI service.

The website

What maxfolders.com collects

• Downloading maXfolders Pro

  The download form collects your email address, plus your IP address, approximate region, and browser user agent, recorded automatically with the request. This is used to gate the direct download, to enforce a daily download limit per email/IP, and to see how many people try Pro. The Mac App Store edition is downloaded through Apple, not this form, so none of this applies to it.

• Trial and Pro license

  To start a free trial, maXfolders and maXfolders Pro send a random install id (generated on your Mac, not linked to your name) and the major version to maxfolders.com, and a one-way salted hash of your Mac's hardware identifier (the raw identifier is never sent and cannot be recovered from the hash), so reinstalling, or trying the other edition, does not restart the trial. The App Store edition also sends the country of your App Store storefront (for example GBR), which is how maxfolders.com knows roughly where its users are; no IP address is stored for it. To claim a Pro license, maXfolders sends Apple's signed receipt for your maXfolders purchase; maxfolders.com verifies Apple's signature, and records the transaction id, the product and whether it was refunded, plus the install ids of the Macs where you activate Pro. It never receives your name, email address or payment details; the payment itself is handled entirely by Apple.

• Feedback submitted from this site

  Same fields as in-app Feedback: email address, the title and description you write, your IP address, and your browser's user agent.

• Google Analytics

  This site uses Google Analytics (Google tag, gtag.js) to understand overall traffic — pages visited, approximate location, device and browser type. Google Analytics uses cookies to do this. See Google's own privacy policy for how Google handles that data.

In general

Sharing, retention, and your options

Data described above is never sold. It's used only for the purposes stated — running the download gate, the free trial, issuing and checking Pro licenses, responding to feedback, and basic site analytics. Payment is handled entirely by Apple through the Mac App Store, under Apple's own privacy policy; maxfolders.com only receives the signed transaction reference.

To ask what's stored against your email address, or to have it deleted, email c.christod@outlook.com directly — as a one-person project there's no separate privacy team, but every request goes to the person who can actually act on it.

This policy describes what the current version of the site and app actually do, and will be updated if that changes.