Privacy Policy

What we collect

Anonymous diagnostics, and nothing else.

Whatever the diagnostics setting, we never collect:

• No personal information
• No recordings, screenshots, or media you create with the app
• No microphone audio, system audio, or screen content
• No filenames, file paths, window titles, or display names
• No advertising IDs or fingerprints

Anonymous diagnostics (on by default)

To fix bugs and see which features matter, the app collects anonymous diagnostics and usage analytics. This is on by default from version 1.3.3. The app shows you a notice on first run where you can switch it off immediately, and the setting is always available at Settings › Privacy → "Share anonymous diagnostics." Turn it off and nothing further is sent.

Versions 1.3.0 to 1.3.2 collected this only if you opted in. If you already chose to turn diagnostics off in one of those versions, that choice is preserved — updating does not switch it back on.

What is collected, while it is on:

• Crash data — stack traces and technical state at the moment of a crash, so we can find and fix it.
• Product usage — which features are used, recorded as fixed categories and buckets only: the capture mode (display/window/area), whether the microphone was on, the codec, whether a recording completed or was canceled, and coarse duration and file-size buckets. Never free-form text, filenames, or paths.
• Standard app and device information collected automatically by Firebase Analytics — such as app version, operating-system version, device model, and country.
• A Firebase app-instance identifier — a random per-install ID generated by Firebase. It is not an advertising identifier, and it is not linked to you, since we have no accounts.

Processor. When enabled, this data is processed on our behalf by Google Firebase (Firebase Analytics and Firebase Crashlytics). See Google's Firebase Data Processing and Security Terms and Privacy and Security in Firebase.

Retention. Data is retained according to Google Firebase's default retention periods: Analytics data for up to 14 months, and Crashlytics crash reports for approximately 90 days, after which Firebase deletes or aggregates it.

This data carries no advertising identifier, is never used to track you across other apps or websites, and is never sold.

What stays on your device

The following information is stored locally on your Mac and never leaves it:

• Recordings. Saved to ~/Movies/TruePathRecorder/ by default, or to a custom folder you pick. We use a sandbox-safe security-scoped bookmark to remember your folder choice across launches — only macOS sees this; we never read it.
• Preferences. Settings (cursor visibility, codec, countdown, etc.) live in your Mac's standard UserDefaults store under com.joytruepath.recorder.
• Crash recovery markers. When a recording is in progress, the app writes a small lock file next to the recording so we can detect orphaned files after a crash. These are deleted on clean shutdown.

Permissions we request

TruePath Recorder uses standard macOS permission prompts (called TCC). You can revoke any of these at any time in System Settings › Privacy & Security.

• Screen Recording — required to capture your display. Apple's system prompt will ask the first time you start a recording.
• Microphone — only requested if you toggle "Include Microphone" on. Off by default.
• Input Monitoring — only requested if you toggle "Show Keystrokes on Screen" on. Off by default. Used solely to render keystroke overlays during recording; we do not store keystrokes anywhere.
• Files and Folders — granted via macOS's standard "Choose Folder" dialog when you pick a custom export location.

Network usage

The app itself makes no outbound network requests during normal operation. The only times it opens a URL are:

• When you click "Send Feedback" — opens your default mail client with [email protected]
• When you click "View Changelog" or "Brand Guidelines" — opens this website in your default browser

Each of those actions is initiated by you. Apart from the optional diagnostics described above — which stay off unless you turn them on — the app does not check for updates or send any data to us automatically. App Store updates happen through the Mac App Store, which Apple manages separately under Apple's privacy policy.

Third parties

The only third party is Google Firebase (Firebase Analytics and Firebase Crashlytics), used for the diagnostics described above and silent whenever that setting is off. We use no advertising network, no backend service of our own, and no other third-party SDK. The app runs in Apple's sandbox.

Children

TruePath Recorder is rated 4+ and is suitable for all ages. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children. The diagnostics described above contain no personal information and can be turned off at any time in Settings › Privacy.

Changes to this policy

If we ever change the data practices described here, we will update this page and the "Effective" date at the top. Material changes will also be announced in the app's "What's New" sheet on first launch after the update.

Contact

Questions or concerns: [email protected]