Privacy policy

The short version

RadioChron records to your disk, not ours. The recorder, the verdict engine, the desktop app and the MCP server all run locally. There is no RadioChron account, no license server and no usage telemetry.

Nothing leaves your machine unless you run an export yourself and choose where to send it.

What the app stores locally

A chronicle directory, by default under your home folder, holding structured event rows: radio metrics (RSSI, noise, channel, band, BSSID), association and handshake events with reason codes, DHCP and DNS activity, reachability and latency samples, and host state such as sleep, wake and interface transitions.

The chronicle is a fixed-size ring buffer. Once it reaches the size or retention window you configured, the oldest rows are overwritten. You can delete the directory at any time; that is the complete uninstall of your data.

Some of this data is inherently identifying in context — SSIDs and BSSIDs describe places, and MAC addresses describe devices. That is precisely why it stays local.

Evidence bundles

An export bundle is created only by an explicit command or button press. Before writing it, RadioChron offers redaction of SSIDs, BSSIDs, MAC addresses and IP addresses.

Once you hand a bundle to a vendor, a ticketing system or a colleague, its handling is governed by them, not by us.

AI and the MCP server

radiochron-mcp exposes local tools to an MCP client running on your machine. RadioChron does not call any model provider itself.

If your MCP client is backed by a hosted model, the rows the agent reads are sent to that provider by your client under its own terms. Choose a local model if that matters for your environment.

This website

radiochron.com is a static site. There are no advertising trackers, no third-party analytics scripts and no cookies set for tracking purposes.

Our host records standard server request logs (IP address, user agent, requested path, timestamp) for security and abuse prevention, retained for a short operational period.

Web fonts are loaded from Google Fonts, which receives the request as part of serving the font file. Downloads are hosted on GitHub Releases and are subject to GitHub's privacy practices once you click through.

Updates and crash reports

The desktop app can check GitHub Releases for a newer version. That check is a plain HTTPS request for a version file and carries no identifier beyond what any HTTP request carries. It can be disabled in settings.

There is no automatic crash reporting. If a crash log is useful to us, you attach it to an issue yourself.

Your rights and contact

Because we hold no personal data about you, there is generally nothing for us to access, correct or delete on your behalf — the data you care about is on your own disk and under your own control.

Questions about this policy, or about what a specific build does on the wire, are best asked as a public issue on GitHub so the answer helps everyone.