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

Configured release builds may use Firebase Analytics to measure app launches, screen views, settings changes, threshold updates, alert delivery, feedback submit results, and app protection actions. Traffic Guard does not include advertising SDKs, account login, or remote syncing, and it does not sell personal data.

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

If you send in-app feedback, Traffic Guard sends your message, optional email address, app version, macOS version, current Wi-Fi name, counting status, quota settings, and a top app usage summary to TinyNeed's feedback backend. The backend forwards that feedback to TinyNeed's private Slack support channel.

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.

Contact

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