Projecture — Privacy Policy

In short: Projecture keeps your library on your Mac. Ingleworks never receives your files, notes, emails, or anything about your projects. The only network requests the app makes are for link previews, sent straight to the website a link points to.

1. What the app does with your files

Projecture stores references to the files and folders you add, not copies of them. For each one it records the name, location, size, dates, file type, and the volume it's on, plus a bookmark that lets it find the item again after it moves, and a Quick Look thumbnail. It reads the folders you ask it to watch, to find new files. Emails you add are read on your Mac for the sender, recipient, date, subject, and a short text snippet.

It never uploads your files. It changes them only when you use one of three commands: Rename File on Disk…, Move to Trash, or Consolidate in Move mode. The first two can be turned off in Settings ▸ General ▸ Files on your Mac.

The app runs in the macOS sandbox and can reach only the files and folders you've given it — by dragging them in, choosing them in an open panel, sending them from Finder or the Share menu, or watching a folder. Renaming, trashing, or moving a file may ask you once for access to the folder it's in; the app remembers that grant.

2. What leaves your Mac

Link previews, and nothing else. When you add a web link, the app uses Apple's LinkPresentation framework to ask that website for the page's title, icon, and preview image. If the page has no icon, it also requests https://<site>/favicon.ico from the same site.

• The request goes directly from your Mac to the site the link points to. Nothing passes through Ingleworks.
• It reveals what visiting that page would reveal — your IP address and the address requested — and nothing more. That site's own privacy policy governs it.
• It happens when you add the link (in the Add Link sheet, as you type the address, after a short pause), and again only if you choose Refresh Preview. Nothing is re-fetched automatically. Each request gives up after 10 seconds.
• It happens without a prompt. Adding a web link is what starts it.
• App links (like figma://) and Gmail or Outlook web-mail links are not fetched. Opening any link opens it in your own browser or app.

There is no other network activity: no account, no sign-in, no Ingleworks server, no analytics, no telemetry, no crash reporting, no advertising, and no update check. The one third-party component, which handles the global keyboard shortcut, makes no network requests. Notifications are generated on your Mac, not pushed from a server.

Projecture doesn't connect to your email account or to your cloud storage services. It reads iCloud Drive, Dropbox, and similar folders the way it reads any folder on your Mac. Opening or consolidating a file that is stored only in the cloud makes that service's own app download it.

3. What the app stores on your Mac

All of this stays on your machine, inside the app's sandbox container, and none of it is sent anywhere. The container is the Projecture folder in ~/Library/Containers/; unless noted, each item below is under its Data/Library/Application Support/ folder.

• The library — Library.store. Your projects, folders, items, bookmarks, notes, and each project's activity.
• Assets — in Assets/. The app's copies of emails you've added (as .eml files), Quick Look thumbnails, link preview images, cover images you've chosen, and, for watched folders, lists of the file paths, sizes, and dates the app has already seen.
• Automatic backups — in Backups/. A copy of the library, made once a day when the app opens. The last 7 are kept.
• Preferences — in the app's macOS preferences, inside the sandbox container.
• Finder and Share hand-off — when you add something from Finder or the Share menu, the extension passes it to the app through a shared container on your Mac. The hand-off never leaves the machine.
• Diagnostic logging — goes only to macOS's own unified log. File names and paths are marked private, so macOS redacts them. There is no separate log file, and nothing is sent anywhere.

If you export a project (.projectureproject) or back up the whole library (.projecturelibrary), the file contains your project details, notes, email copies, file paths, and bookmark data. It's written where you choose and never sent anywhere, but anyone you give it to can read those details, so share it with care.

4. What we collect

Nothing. Projecture has no account and no sign-in, and no analytics or crash-reporting service that sends data to us. We do not know who uses the app or what their projects contain.

If you install the app from the Mac App Store, Apple provides us with aggregate, anonymous statistics about downloads and, if you have opted in to sharing with developers, aggregate crash reports. That data comes from Apple, does not identify you, and is governed by Apple's privacy policy.

5. Support correspondence

If you email support, we hold that email as described in the Ingleworks website privacy policy. Please don't attach private files or emails unless we have asked for them in order to reproduce a bug — and if you do, we delete them once the issue is resolved.

6. Children

Projecture is not directed to children under 13, and collects no information from anyone.

7. Your rights

Since the app sends us no personal information, there is nothing for us to disclose, correct, or delete. What the app keeps is on your Mac, and you can remove it:

• Remove from Project, and deleting a folder or a project, delete only the app's records. Deleting a project also deletes its notes and the email copies stored with it.
• Settings ▸ Advanced ▸ Reset All Data… (confirmed twice) deletes every project, folder, note, and saved email.
• Reset All Data does not delete the daily backups in Backups/. To remove everything, delete the app and its container, the Projecture folder in ~/Library/Containers/.

None of these touch your original files, emails, or links. For anything we hold from support email, write to support@ingleworks.co.

8. Changes

Changes will be posted here with a new date. If a future version of the app ever sends data anywhere, this policy will say so before that version ships.

9. Contact

Ingleworks LLC, Phoenix, Arizona, United States — support@ingleworks.co