Kodiak Cleaner for Mac Privacy Policy
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Effective date: October 6, 2026

Kodiak Cleaner for Mac is made by Ted Tabaka, an independent developer. This policy explains exactly what it does with your information. The short version: nothing leaves your Mac.

What Stays on Your Mac
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- Your settings are saved in ~/Library/Application Support/Kodiak Cleaner/Settings.json.
- Triggers History and its backup copies are saved in ~/Library/Application Support/Kodiak Cleaner/Backups.
- The Cleaner's history (when each item was last cleaned and how much it freed) is saved with your settings.
- What the Cleaner and Triggers pages find is shown to you and never saved anywhere else.

What Is Never Collected
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Kodiak Cleaner for Mac has no telemetry, analytics, crash reporting, ads or accounts. It never sends anything about you, your Mac or what it finds.

Going Online
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Kodiak Cleaner for Mac never goes online by itself. When you click a link (such as Website, Source Code, Ko-fi or Star on GitHub), it opens in your own browser. Contact & Feedback opens your own email app with a message ready for you to read, edit and send yourself; nothing is sent until you send it there.

Administrator Rights
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Cleaning never needs administrator rights. Turning a launch daemon off or on does: Kodiak Cleaner asks through macOS's own password prompt each time and never sees or keeps your password.

Full Disk Access
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macOS keeps Safari, Mail and the Trash private. If you want Kodiak Cleaner to clean them, you can allow it under Full Disk Access in System Settings, Privacy & Security. Kodiak Cleaner only uses that access to clean the items you tick, and you can take it away there at any time.

Supporter Codes
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Supporter codes are checked on your Mac against a key built into Kodiak Cleaner. The code is saved in your settings file and never sent anywhere.

Changes to This Policy
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A new version of Kodiak Cleaner for Mac may update this policy. The effective date at the top shows when it last changed.

Contact
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Questions about privacy: TTabakaGroup@gmail.com
