Privacy Policy
Summary. Port & Process Explorer does not collect, transmit, or share any personal data. It reads the list of processes and network ports on your Mac, shows them to you, and keeps only the preferences and history it needs, on your Mac. It has no accounts, no analytics, no advertising, and no third-party SDKs.
Who we are
Port & Process Explorer is developed by İbrahim Yüce, published as Stargazer Apps. Contact: [email protected].
What the app reads on your Mac
To show what is running, the app reads information that macOS makes available on your Mac:
- Process IDs, process names, executable paths, and CPU and memory usage.
- The launchd jobs of your user account and their status.
- TCP and UDP sockets, with their local port and the process ID that owns them.
This information is read and displayed on your Mac only. It is never sent anywhere.
What the app stores on your Mac
The app stores the following locally, inside its App Sandbox container on your Mac:
- Preferences: refresh interval, appearance, process grouping, pinned ports, window size, and whether the first-run note was dismissed.
- Your ports: recent ports, favorite ports, and any custom presets you create.
- Activity log: a history of actions you took in the app, such as stop and restart commands you copied. Each entry includes the command text. You can clear the log at any time in the Logs view.
None of this data leaves your Mac. Deleting the app removes its container and everything stored in it.
Commands you copy
When you press a Stop or restart button, the app copies a shell command to your clipboard, for example kill 12345. The app does not run that command and does not see its output. You decide whether to paste it into Terminal and run it. The app only writes to the clipboard; it never reads what is on it.
Network access
The App Store edition does not request network access and contains no code that connects to the internet or to any server. It does not send data to us or to anyone else.
Data we collect
We do not collect any data from the app. We do not receive your process lists, ports, preferences, logs, or any other information. The app has no accounts, no analytics SDK, no crash-reporting service of its own, no telemetry, no advertising identifiers, and no tracking.
If you have chosen to share app analytics and crash reports with developers in macOS, Apple may give us aggregated diagnostics. Apple handles that data under its own Privacy Policy.
Third parties
The app does not use third-party SDKs or services. Downloads and updates are handled by the Mac App Store, under Apple's privacy policy.
Children
The app is not directed at children, and it does not collect information from anyone, including children under 13.
Your rights and choices
Because we do not hold personal data about you, there is nothing for us to access, correct, export, or delete. You control the data on your Mac: you can clear the activity log in the app, change or reset preferences, or delete the app to remove everything it stored. If you have a question about this policy or about your rights under applicable law, including the GDPR and Turkey's KVKK, write to us at the address below.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, we will update the effective date on this page. If the app ever starts collecting data, we will update this policy before that change takes effect and, where the law requires it, ask for your consent first.
Contact
Questions about this policy: [email protected]