Privacy Policy

Fregata is a local-first NVR. Your camera streams and recordings live on your Mac and your network — we never see them. This page describes the limited data that the app and our licensing servers touch so that you can make an informed choice.

Information we collect

To verify your license and improve Fregata, your app periodically sends a signed heartbeat to our servers (Cloudflare Workers). Each heartbeat contains:

Required for license verification:

• Your license key
• A hardware identifier derived from your Mac’s IOPlatformUUID (one-way hashed — we cannot recover the original UUID from the hash)

Technical telemetry (anonymous, opt-out available):

• Fregata version
• macOS version (major.minor, e.g., “14.3”)
• Mac model identifier (e.g., “Mac14,10”)
• CPU architecture, core count, and memory size bucket (e.g., “16 GB”)
• Number of cameras configured (count only)
• Detector backend in use (CoreML / ONNX / CPU)
• Approximate uptime bucket and crash count since last heartbeat

Information we do NOT collect

• Your IP address (Cloudflare drops this at the network edge before it reaches our database)
• Your name, hostname, user account
• Your email address, beyond the one associated with your license purchase
• Camera names, URLs, credentials, stream content, or any recording data
• File paths from your system
• Anything from within your local network

How we use it

Technical telemetry helps us prioritize bug fixes, test against the Mac models and macOS versions our users actually run, and diagnose support requests. Your license key links this data to your purchase record so we can provide support; the telemetry itself contains no personally identifying information beyond the purchase email already on file.

Sharing

We do not sell, rent, or share this data with third parties. Data is stored in Cloudflare D1 (EU or US region depending on your location), retained for up to 24 months, then archived in encrypted cold storage for an additional 24 months before deletion.

Opting out of telemetry

Set the environment variable FREGATA_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=1 before launching Fregata. Typical methods:

• Shell profile (for apps launched from Terminal): add export FREGATA_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=1 to ~/.zshrc or ~/.bash_profile.
• LaunchAgent (for apps launched from Finder / Login Items): add a LaunchAgent plist with <key>EnvironmentVariables</key> containing <key>FREGATA_TELEMETRY_DISABLED</key><string>1</string>. Detailed instructions in our support docs.

License verification heartbeats will continue (required to run Fregata), but will no longer include technical details.

Purchase data

Stripe processes all payments. We receive your email, transaction ID, and payment status from Stripe but never see or store your card details. Stripe’s privacy policy governs their handling of your payment information.

Contact

Privacy questions: privacy inbox. To request deletion of your license and associated telemetry, email support — we’ll honor the request within 30 days, retaining only what’s legally required for tax/refund compliance.