Privacy Policy

Overview

Traffic Guard helps Mac users monitor personal hotspot data usage. The app is designed to work locally on your Mac and does not require an account.

Information stored locally

Traffic Guard may store the following information on your Mac:

• Estimated daily, weekly, and monthly traffic counters.
• Wi-Fi names used to decide whether the current connection looks like a phone hotspot.
• App names, bundle identifiers, executable paths, helper process names, and process identifiers used for traffic attribution.
• Endpoint hostnames, IP addresses, ports, and recent alert history shown in the app.
• Configuration such as alert thresholds, monthly quota, allowed apps, blocked apps, and protected apps.

Optional Chrome tab access

If you grant permission, Traffic Guard may read Google Chrome tab titles and URLs to help identify which tab may be responsible for browser traffic. This is used for local display inside the app.

Data sharing

Traffic Guard uses Firebase Analytics from app launch. Product analytics measure app launches, screen views, settings changes, threshold updates, alert delivery, feedback submit results, app protection actions, and the Premium paywall, purchase, and restore flows. Traffic Guard does not include advertising SDKs, account login, or remote syncing, and it does not sell personal data.

The Premium funnel uses the events premium_paywall_view, premium_purchase_attempt, premium_purchase_result, premium_restore_attempt, and premium_restore_result. The premium_purchase_result and premium_restore_result events are used only for product analysis of the purchase and restore flows. Each result event contains only a limited source and a coarse result such as success, pending, cancelled, unverified, failure, or not found. These events do not include transaction identifiers, prices, or Apple Account details.

Analytics events are designed to avoid feedback message text, email addresses, full Wi-Fi names, endpoint lists, Chrome tab URLs, raw per-request details, and other purchase details.

If you send in-app feedback, Traffic Guard sends your message, optional reply email, app version, and macOS version to TinyNeed's feedback backend. Usage diagnostics are off by default. If you select Include usage diagnostics, the feedback also includes the current Wi-Fi name, counting and traffic engine status, quota and alert settings, and a top app usage summary. Browsing history and full endpoint lists are not included.

The feedback service is hosted by Cloudflare and may record a coarse country code and the app's user-agent string for delivery, abuse prevention, and troubleshooting. Feedback may be stored in TinyNeed's private database or forwarded to its private support workspace. Service providers are permitted to process this information only to operate the support service.

If you email support, your email address and the information you choose to send will be used to respond to your support request.

Your controls

You can edit hotspot names, change alert thresholds, disable optional app protection settings, reset the current month baseline, or delete the local usage data folder from your Mac.

You choose whether to include usage diagnostics each time you send feedback. Feedback is kept only as long as needed to respond, troubleshoot, improve Traffic Guard, and meet legal obligations. You can request access to or deletion of feedback associated with your email by contacting us.

Contact

Questions about this policy can be sent to [email protected].