The short version
- The website asks for your email to send the download link and news. You can unsubscribe at any time.
- If you write to us through the contact form, we keep your message to answer it, and never add you to a mailing list for it.
- The app has no account. It sends us anonymous usage statistics and crash reports (counts and settings, never your code, prompts or project names), and one switch in Settings → Privacy turns each off.
- Your code stays on your Mac (or your server) except where your agents send it: Anthropic for Claude Code, OpenAI for Codex, under your own accounts.
- We don't sell or rent your data. We don't use advertising trackers.
The website
Your email address
When you ask for the Mac download link, or to be told when the iPhone app is out, you give us your email address. We store it with which list you joined (Mac or iPhone), the page you signed up from, and the time. We use it to:
- send you the download link,
- send a short tour of ClankDesk and occasional news when new features or apps ship.
Our emails are delivered by Postmark, an email delivery service, which processes your address and delivery data (such as whether a message bounced) to send them. Every email has an unsubscribe link. You can also ask us through the contact page and we'll remove you.
Messages you send us
When you use the contact form, we store what you enter (your email address, the topic, your message, and your name if you give it) with the page you sent it from and the time. The message is emailed to the ClankDesk team so we can read it and reply, and you get one email confirming we received it. Both emails are delivered by Postmark. We use your message only to answer you and to improve ClankDesk, and sending one doesn't sign you up for anything.
The beta chat is a group on Telegram. What you post there is seen by the group's members and handled under Telegram's privacy policy; the website only links to it.
What every website sees
Like any web server, ours receives your IP address and browser details when you load a page. We use them to run the site and to limit abuse of the sign-up and contact forms. The site loads its fonts from Google Fonts, so Google also receives your IP address when you visit.
The website doesn't use advertising cookies or cross-site trackers.
The app
ClankDesk runs on your Mac. There's no ClankDesk account and no ClankDesk server your work passes through.
Usage statistics and crash reports
To see which features get used and to fix crashes, the app sends us anonymous usage statistics and crash reports. Both are on by default, the app tells you about them the first time it runs, and nothing is sent before you've seen that. Settings → Privacy switches each off and lists exactly what's sent. Turning statistics off deletes what wasn't sent yet.
- Usage statistics: once a day, counts of what you did (messages, tasks created, questions answered, approvals, merges, agent turns, and the like), how ClankDesk is set up (its switches, how many projects and servers you have, whether Claude Code and Codex are installed and their versions), and the app and macOS versions.
- Crash reports: when ClankDesk, its background service or its helper crashes, where in ClankDesk's code it happened, with the app and macOS versions.
They never include what you type or say, your prompts, task titles, code, diffs, file, folder, project or server names, commands, or anything your agents write. Each Mac gets a random ID, and crash reports a separate one; neither is linked to your email or to you.
They go to PostHog, our analytics provider, in the US. It works out your country from your IP address and then discards the address; it keeps nothing finer than the country.
Where your data lives
Tasks, chat history, settings and agent session logs are stored on your Mac, in ClankDesk's folder under ~/Library/Application Support. Task worktrees live next to them, or on your server for projects you run there. Deleting the app and that folder removes them.
Where your code and messages go
ClankDesk runs the coding agents you already use, with your own logins:
- Claude Code sends what it works on to Anthropic.
- Codex sends what it works on to OpenAI.
ClankDesk also uses your Claude Code login for short calls of its own: to split your messages into tasks, to title and summarize tasks, and to answer you in the chat. Those calls include your message and a description of your open tasks. All of this falls under your agreements with Anthropic and OpenAI, the same as when you use those tools directly.
Plan usage
To show how much of your plans is left, ClankDesk asks Anthropic and OpenAI for your usage, with your own login. For Claude, it reads the login token Claude Code keeps in your Mac's keychain. The token is never logged or sent anywhere except to Anthropic.
Voice
Dictation uses Apple's speech recognition. When macOS supports it, recognition runs on your Mac. When it can't, Apple's servers do the recognition, and ClankDesk tells you. Apple's privacy policy covers that.
Update checks
- ClankDesk checks clankdesk.com for new versions of itself. The request includes the app version, like any update check. Updates are signed, and you can turn automatic installs off.
- Claude Code and Codex version checks go to where those tools are published: Anthropic's download server, the npm registry or Homebrew, depending on how you installed them. You can switch these checks off in Settings.
Servers you connect
If you point a project at a server, ClankDesk connects to it over SSH with your own keys and runs that project's commands and agents there. Nothing passes through us.
Your choices and rights
- Unsubscribe from email with the link in any message.
- Ask us what we hold about you, to correct it, or to delete it, through our contact page. We'll answer within 30 days.
- We keep your email until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete it, and contact messages as long as we need them to answer and follow up, or until you ask us to delete them.
Depending on where you live, you may have further rights under laws such as the GDPR or the CCPA, and the right to complain to your data protection authority. We'll help you use them.
Changes
If this policy changes, we'll update this page and the date at the top. If a change matters, for example a new kind of data we collect, we'll email the people on our lists before it takes effect.
Questions? Send us a message.