Privacy

The Atlas app

Scans, maps and clean-ups happen entirely on your computer, and the app never uploads your files.

The app does check in with our licensing server to activate, and to confirm your license now and then. An approved machine keeps working for up to one day without a connection. That check is about your license, not your files.

Everything below is about this website, atlasfileintel.com.

When you just visit

• Hosting. The site runs on Cloudflare. Like any web host, Cloudflare handles your IP address and basic request details, such as your browser and the page you asked for, to deliver pages and fend off attacks. When it's checking for bots it may run a small script and set its own security cookie.
• Visit counts. We use Cloudflare Web Analytics to see how many people visit which pages. It doesn't use cookies and doesn't follow you around other sites.
• Abuse protection. To stop floods of requests, our server keeps short counters tied to your IP address. Each one only matters for between a minute and an hour, and old ones are deleted automatically within about a day.

If you create an account

• What we keep: your name, your email address and whether you've verified it, when you joined, and your plan. If you use a password, we store only a salted, deliberately slow hash of it, which can't be turned back into your password. If you sign in with Google or GitHub instead, we keep the account ID they give us and a link to your profile picture.
• Staying signed in: we set one cookie, atlas_sess, which keeps you signed in for up to 30 days. Scripts on the page can't read it. On our side we store only a scrambled copy of it, plus the browser and IP address it was created from, for security. Signing out deletes it, and expired ones are cleared out automatically.
• Signing in with Google or GitHub sets one more cookie, atlas_oauth, which protects the handoff between us and them. It lasts ten minutes at most.
• Emails: we send verification and password-reset emails through Resend, an email delivery service. Verification links expire after 24 hours, reset links after one hour.
• Downloads: while Atlas is in testing, downloads are limited to a small test group. When you click download, we check your account against that list.

Support messages

When you write to us from the Contact page, we keep your message, the topic you picked, your name and email, and our replies, so we can help and follow up. You can read the whole conversation on your account page. Deleting your account deletes these too.

If you email [email protected] directly instead, that conversation lives in that inbox.

The newsletter

• It's opt-in twice: you type your email, then click the link in the email we send. Nothing else is sent until you confirm.
• We keep your email address, whether you've confirmed, which part of the site you signed up from, and when.
• Every email has an unsubscribe link. After you unsubscribe we keep your address marked as unsubscribed, so we know not to email you. If you'd rather it were erased completely, just ask.
• Newsletter emails are sent through Resend too.

Saved in your browser

Apart from the sign-in cookie, the site saves a few things in your browser's own storage. They stay on your device and are never sent to us: preferences such as theme, sound and motion settings, the music player's state, a draft of a contact message you haven't sent yet, mini-game high scores, and a random device tag.

The device tag is what lets the sign-in page say "Recognized device". It's a random number, not something worked out from your hardware or browser. Clearing this site's data in your browser removes all of it.

Who else is involved

• Cloudflare hosts the site, its database and the downloads, protects it from attacks, and counts visits.
• Resend delivers our emails.
• Google and GitHub, but only if you choose to sign in with them.

That's the whole list. We don't sell your data, share it for advertising, or use ad trackers.

Your choices

• See what we hold: your account page shows your profile and your support conversations.
• Delete everything: use Delete account on your account page. It removes your profile, your sign-ins and your support tickets straight away.
• Anything else, like a copy of your data, a correction, or erasing a newsletter record: email [email protected] and a real person will sort it out.

Who runs this

Atlas Intel is built and run by one independent developer. Questions about this page or your data go to [email protected]. Found a security problem? How to report it is in our security.txt.

If this page changes in a way that matters, the date at the top changes with it.