Privacy Settings

The privacy section is informational rather than configurational — Companion's privacy posture is built into the defaults, not toggled. This page surfaces what is happening so you can verify.

Telemetry confirmation

Companion ships with no telemetry:

• No analytics SDK.
• No error reporter.
• No usage tracking.
• No "anonymous diagnostics."

The privacy section displays this status prominently. There is no toggle for telemetry because there is nothing to toggle.

Data storage paths

The privacy section shows the on-disk locations of:

Where <app-data> is your operating system's standard application-data directory.

Click any path to open it in your OS file browser. Useful for:

• Backing up your data.
• Moving Companion to another machine (copy the entire data directory).
• Auditing what's being stored.
• Manual cleanup.

Network calls

The privacy section lists the network destinations Companion contacts:

That's it. Companion makes no automatic outbound calls of its own. No analytics, no update server pings, no third-party domains, no licence checks. Every network call is something you configured.

Verify with a network monitor (Wireshark, Little Snitch, your firewall) if you want hard evidence.

Content protection

A summary of the content-protection appearance setting — surfaced here too because it has direct privacy implications.

Clear local data

Privacy section actions:

• Clear AI conversations — wipes any in-memory conversation state. (Conversations are not persisted by default; this is a runtime clear.)
• Clear sessions — deletes every saved capture session. Cannot be undone.
• Clear library — deletes the known-device library. Cannot be undone.
• Clear settings — restores defaults. Companion creates a fresh settings file on next launch.

Use these for:

• End-of-engagement cleanup.
• Returning a device for service.
• Selling or transferring your machine.

What Companion deliberately does not collect

For completeness, the things Companion explicitly does not collect or transmit:

• Operating system version / hardware info.
• Companion version usage patterns.
• Crash reports.
• Click-stream analytics.
• Performance metrics.
• A/B test assignments.
• Account credentials, machine identifiers, install fingerprints.

If something seems wrong with Companion, you tell us via support — Companion does not tell us automatically.

Per-device data privacy

For details on what each device sees and stores, refer to that device's docs:

• ZeroTrace HID privacy
• ZeroTrace AirLeak privacy
• ZeroTrace BLE Logger privacy

Each device has its own privacy posture; Companion respects whatever that posture is.