PRIVACY

Your data stays on your Mac.

Last updated: October 24, 2026 · Applies to Talox 0.1.x

Talox is a local process state manager. It does not have an account system, does not connect to a server, and does not send telemetry. This page explains exactly what the app writes to disk and what it does not do.

What Talox stores

• Process samples: name, PID, parent PID, start time, executable path, state, memory footprint, CPU time, and attribution evidence.
• Machine samples: total/used/reclaimable memory, memory pressure, swap, CPU load, and process count.
• Software inventory: installed application name, version, path, and changes between snapshots.
• Your own notes, if you add them to a process.
• Disk scan results, including paths and allocated sizes, only when you run a scan.

All of it is stored in a single SQLite database at ~/Library/Application Support/Talox/talox.sqlite, plus its WAL files. The collector writes to the same database. There is no other copy.

What Talox does not do

• No account, email address, or personal identifier.
• No upload of process names, paths, window titles, or disk contents.
• No advertising or third-party analytics SDKs.
• No reading of file contents for the disk scan — only file sizes and paths.

Anonymous usage counts and crashes

Talox can send two things, both optional and both controlled in Settings:

• Install heartbeat: a random install ID (generated locally), app version, macOS version, and CPU architecture. This is how we count users. It is not tied to a name, email, or hardware serial.
• Crash report: the same anonymous ID, app version, signal/exception, message, and stack trace. Sent only after a crash.

Neither includes process names, executable paths, window titles, disk contents, or your IP address in stored form. Turn both off in Settings → Privacy; the app keeps working and no heartbeat is sent.

Retention

• Detailed process samples: 14 days.
• Hourly rollups: 180 days.
• Daily software snapshots: kept until you delete the database.

The collector prunes older rows automatically. You can stop the collector or delete the database at any time in Settings.

Permissions and limits

Talox runs entirely as your user. It does not ask for root and does not install a privileged helper. Processes owned by other users — for example WindowServer and launchd — cannot be read exactly; the app fills them in with ps/top and labels the estimate. Stopping a process is limited to processes owned by your user, and always requires confirmation.

Server retention

Install records keep the random ID, version, macOS version, and first/last seen timestamps. Crash reports are kept for up to 90 days and capped at the most recent 5,000. There is no process data on the server.

Website

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Deleting your data

Quit Talox, stop the collector in Settings, then delete ~/Library/Application Support/Talox. That removes all samples, notes, and snapshots. There is no server-side copy to delete.

Contact

Questions about this policy: hello@infyniclick.com.