CleanMate – Storage Cleaner
Privacy Policy
Privacy in one sentence: CleanMate analyzes files and system information locally on your Mac, and does not upload your file names, file contents, folder paths, scan results, process list, or cleanup history.
1. About this policy
This Privacy Policy explains how CleanMate ("CleanMate", "we", "us", or "our") handles information when you use the CleanMate macOS application, whether downloaded from the Mac App Store or distributed directly by us.
2. Information processed locally
To provide storage analysis, duplicate detection, cleanup recommendations, application management, and system monitoring, CleanMate may process the following information on your Mac:
- File and folder names, paths, sizes, dates, file types, and content hashes used to detect exact duplicates.
- Application bundle metadata and related local paths used to identify installed applications and possible leftovers.
- Local system metrics, including CPU usage, memory pressure, storage capacity, uptime, battery status, and running process information.
- Your selections, scan state, appearance settings, onboarding status, and locally cached entitlement state.
This information is processed on your device. CleanMate does not upload file contents or the local scan information listed above to us.
3. File access and permissions
CleanMate accesses files only to provide features you initiate, such as storage scanning, finding large or duplicate files, reviewing cleanup candidates, and uninstalling applications.
The Direct edition may ask you to grant Full Disk Access to improve scan coverage for protected locations. The Mac App Store edition may ask you to select folders and grant access through macOS. You can revoke these permissions in macOS System Settings. Without permission, some folders may be skipped or reported as unavailable.
4. Cleanup operations
CleanMate presents reviewable paths before cleanup actions. Files selected for cleanup are moved to the macOS Trash rather than intentionally erased permanently. You remain responsible for reviewing selections before confirming an action and for managing items in Trash.
5. Purchases and license information
Mac App Store edition: purchases and subscriptions are processed by Apple through StoreKit and are subject to Apple's privacy policy. CleanMate receives entitlement information needed to determine whether paid features are available. We do not receive your full payment card details.
Direct edition: purchases, subscriptions, and license management may be processed by Lemon Squeezy, a Merchant of Record. Lemon Squeezy may process information such as your name, email address, billing details, country, transaction information, and license status according to its own privacy policy. CleanMate may exchange a license key, device activation identifier, and entitlement status with the licensing service. We do not receive your full payment card details.
6. Google Drive and other cloud services
Connecting a cloud account is optional. When you connect Google Drive or another supported provider, CleanMate receives an OAuth access token and may process file metadata such as file ID, name, size, modification date, and available content checksums. This information is used to show large files and identify possible exact duplicates.
CleanMate requests Google Drive access so it can list metadata and move files you explicitly select to Google Drive Trash. It does not use Google user data for advertising, does not sell it, and does not transfer it to unrelated third parties. CleanMate does not download Google Drive file contents solely to perform metadata-based storage analysis.
Cloud credentials are stored in the macOS Keychain. Disconnecting the provider removes the saved credential from CleanMate. You can also revoke access from your Google Account or provider account settings.
7. Information we do not sell
We do not sell or rent personal information. We do not use your file contents, file names, folder paths, scan results, process list, or cleanup history for advertising or profiling.
8. Data stored on your Mac
CleanMate may store preferences in macOS user defaults and entitlement or trial information in the macOS Keychain. The App Store edition may store security-scoped bookmarks for folders you explicitly authorize. You can remove locally stored application data by uninstalling CleanMate and deleting its associated application data, subject to normal macOS and Keychain behavior.
9. Data retention
Local scan results are retained only as needed by the application session or local product functionality. Payment providers retain transaction and account information according to their legal obligations and privacy policies. License records may be retained while your license is active and for a reasonable period afterward for fraud prevention, accounting, support, and legal compliance.
10. Security
We use platform security features and reasonable technical safeguards appropriate to the information handled by CleanMate. No method of storage or transmission is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security.
11. Children's privacy
CleanMate is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.
12. Changes to this policy
We may update this policy when CleanMate features, service providers, or legal requirements change. We will update the effective date on this page. Material changes will be communicated through the application, website, or release notes where appropriate.
13. Contact
For privacy questions or requests, contact us at smartgroup.tqn.global@gmail.com.