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InSpec privacy policy

Effective May 9, 2026

InSpec doesn't collect or transmit any personal data. No analytics, no telemetry, no accounts.

What InSpec does on your machine

• Loads web pages you tell it to load. The connection is direct from your computer to the page's server. InSpec doesn't proxy or intercept anything.
• Stores your overrides (the CSS edits you make) in your local UserDefaults. They never leave your device.
• "Open File…" reads only the file you pick (and its sibling resources, when sandboxed by the Mac App Store build).

Network connections InSpec makes on its own

• Update checks (direct-download builds only). The Sparkle framework periodically fetches https://bendansby.com/apps/inspec/appcast.xml to see if a newer version is available. The request carries only a User-Agent string and the current InSpec version, the same as any HTTP request. No identifiers, no telemetry, no tracking. The Mac App Store build doesn't use Sparkle — App Store updates handle that.

What we don't do

• No analytics or telemetry of any kind.
• No user accounts. No login, no remote configuration.
• No advertising, third-party tracking SDKs, or fingerprinting.
• No cookies, no server-side logs about you.

Pages you load in InSpec

Pages you visit run their own analytics, cookies, and tracking. That's between you and those sites — exactly the same as visiting them in Safari. InSpec doesn't add to, or interfere with, what those sites already do.

Contact

ben.dansby@gmail.com

Changes

If anything material changes about what InSpec collects, this page updates and the next version's release notes call it out explicitly.