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This page covers two separate things: the Patchbay app, and this website. Last updated 2026-11-06.
- The app, signed out
- Patchbay runs the agent CLIs already on your Mac, as you, through your login shell. Signed out, with update checks declined, it makes no network requests at all. It sends no telemetry, analytics, crash reports or usage events. Nothing about your projects, your terminal output or your usage is collected, logged remotely or sent anywhere.
- Exception one: checking for updates
- If you say yes on first run (or turn it on later in Settings), Patchbay checks GitHub for a newer version. That request sends only your app version, OS and CPU architecture — no account, no token, no device identifier, no usage data. It goes to
github.comand its asset host,objects.githubusercontent.com, and nowhere else. No request is ever made before you've answered that question, and none is made at all if you decline. - Exception two: signing in to a Patchbay account
- Only if you choose to sign in, Patchbay contacts the Patchbay service to sign in, refresh your session, sign out and check which plan you have. Those requests send your account token and a random device identifier generated at first sign-in — no hardware fingerprint. Signed out, no request is made to the service. There is no sync, no analytics, no crash reporting and no usage events.
- The microphone
- If you use voice dictation, audio is processed on your Mac. It is never sent off the machine.
- Downloading the app
- There is nothing to download at the moment: the app is not yet publicly available, and this site links to no release asset. When a download returns, the button will link to a release hosted on GitHub (
github.com), a third party with its own privacy practices — visiting that link would be between you and GitHub, and this site would have no part in it beyond the link. This page changes in the same update if that changes. - This website
- No analytics, no cookies, no tracking pixels, no third-party requests of any kind — enforced by a strict Content-Security-Policy on every page, not just promised. Fonts and scripts are all self-hosted. Nothing you do on this site is recorded anywhere.
- What we store
- This website stores nothing. For the app: signed out, nothing is sent to us. If you sign in, the Patchbay service handles your account; how long account data is kept and how to delete an account are not yet described here, and this page will say so in the same update when they are.
- Changes to this policy
- If what Patchbay or this site sends over the network ever changes, this page changes with it, in the same update.