Privacy

Who is responsible

Maben Sweep and this website are made by Max Benschop in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. For anything about your data, email maxbenschop1@gmail.com.

The app

What stays on your Mac

The app stores its settings, the list of projects from the last scan (their folders, sizes and when they were last used), the schedule of coming cleanups and the history of what it removed. They are in ~/Library/Application Support/Maben Sweep/. None of this is sent to me or to anyone else, and I can't see it.

What it reads

• Your project folders. In the folders you chose, it reads file and folder names, sizes and the dates files were last changed. It doesn't read the contents of your files.
• Git. It asks git, on your Mac, which folders are ignored, whether anything inside a folder is tracked, and when the last commit was.
• AI agent sessions. To see whether you worked on a project with an agent, it looks at the dates of Claude Code and Codex session files in your home folder. For Codex it reads the first lines of each file to find which folder the session was started in. It doesn't read your prompts or the answers.
• Running programs. It looks at the working folder of the programs you are running, to leave a project alone while something runs in it.

What it changes

It removes the folders described on the support page, by deleting them or moving them to the Trash, and nothing else. If you turn on Open at login, macOS adds it to your login items.

Internet

The app makes one kind of request: at start, every 6 hours and after waking, it asks the GitHub API for the latest release of Maben Sweep, and when there is a new one it downloads it from GitHub. GitHub sees your IP address and the app's version, under GitHub's privacy statement. You can switch this off under Cleanup › Updates in the app. The app doesn't report errors or measure use.

This website

This website sets no cookies and uses no analytics, tracking or third-party embeds. The fonts are served from this site itself.

The site runs on a server I manage and is delivered through Cloudflare, which acts as its network provider. To deliver and protect the site, Cloudflare processes technical data about each request, such as your IP address and browser, under Cloudflare's privacy policy. My own web server doesn't keep access logs.

If you email me

If you email me, for support or with feedback, I use your email address and message only to reply. I don't share them and don't add you to any list. I delete them when you ask. Email is handled by Google (Gmail).

Your rights

Under the GDPR you can ask what personal data I hold about you, and ask me to correct or delete it, or to stop using it. Email maxbenschop1@gmail.com. The only personal data I could have is your email if you wrote to me; data in the app never reaches me. If you think your data is handled wrongly, you can complain to the Dutch Data Protection Authority.

The legal basis is my legitimate interest in answering messages and keeping this website running safely.

Changes

If the app or this website starts handling data differently, for example when the app is released through an app store, this page will be updated and the date at the top will change.