Privacy

• Neatwise: Mac Cleaner scans and cleans files locally on your Mac; scan results and file contents never leave the device. Verified against: Neatwise/PRIVACY_POLICY.md §3 — All Processing Happens Locally
• Neatwise: Mac Cleaner does not upload your files to a server. Verified against: Neatwise/PRIVACY_POLICY.md §2–§3; Neatwise/APP_REVIEW_NOTES.md
• Neatwise: Mac Cleaner contains no analytics, advertising or third-party tracking SDKs, and collects no usage data. Verified against: Neatwise/PRIVACY_POLICY.md §2; Neatwise/PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy — NSPrivacyTracking false, NSPrivacyCollectedDataTypes empty
• The only network requests Neatwise: Mac Cleaner makes are the ones from the Speed Test you start yourself, and they carry no personal data. Verified against: Neatwise/PRIVACY_POLICY.md §5 — Network Usage
• Items removed by Neatwise: Mac Cleaner are moved to the Trash first, so a cleanup can be undone. Verified against: Neatwise/PRIVACY_POLICY.md §6; Neatwise/SUPPORT.md FAQ 3
• Neatwise: Mac Cleaner never deletes anything on a schedule or automatically; every removal follows a confirmation you give. Verified against: Neatwise/APP_REVIEW_NOTES.md — no scheduled or automatic deletion
• Neatwise: Mac Cleaner runs in the macOS App Sandbox with no privileged helper, and reaches a folder only after you authorize it. Verified against: Neatwise/PRIVACY_POLICY.md §4; Neatwise/APP_REVIEW_NOTES.md
• Neatwise: Mac Cleaner does not access or delete critical macOS system directories. Verified against: Neatwise/PRIVACY_POLICY.md §6 — Safe Cleanup

The published policy behind these statements is the Neatwise privacy policy. Where this page and that document disagree, that document is the authority.

A privacy claim is only useful if its limits are stated too. This page does not currently claim that:

• The app makes no network requests at all. It does — the Speed Test you start yourself measures your connection. Those requests carry no personal data, but "no network activity" would be false.
• Clearing browser data stops you being tracked. It removes the local record. A tracker sets a new cookie the next time you visit.
• Deleting a file removes it beyond recovery. Files go to the Trash first, which is the point — but it also means they are still on the disk until you empty it.
• Every file can be removed. Items owned by root cannot be deleted by a sandboxed App Store application, and the app says so rather than reporting a success it did not achieve.

Neatwise: Mac Cleaner runs inside the macOS App Sandbox. That means it has no access to any folder until you grant it, and it holds no privileged helper that could act outside the sandbox.

Access is granted through the standard macOS open panel, and the grant is stored on your Mac as a security-scoped bookmark — a local record that lets the app reopen a folder you already approved. Nothing about it is transmitted anywhere. You can review or revoke any grant in Preferences → Permissions, and the app loses access to that folder immediately.

One system permission sits outside the app: Safari's history database is protected by Full Disk Access, which is granted in System Settings. Without it, the Privacy Cleaner can still clear other Safari data but not the history, and it reports that rather than showing an empty result.

There is exactly one feature that uses the network: the Speed Test. It runs only when you start it, and it carries no personal or device data. Everything else — scanning, analysing, cleaning, uninstalling — happens on your Mac.

The app contains no analytics, advertising or third-party tracking SDK, requires no account and sets no cookies of its own. Its privacy manifest declares that it does not track you and that it collects no data types.

This site is a static website. It is served as pre-built HTML with no client-side application code and no third-party scripts, so visiting a page does not run analytics or tracking code in your browser.

The site is served through a content delivery network, which processes standard request data such as IP address and user agent in order to deliver the response and protect the service from abuse.