privacy policy

last updated: 13 august 2026

hiya. this is the privacy policy for tracksync, a little command line tool
i wrote for myself to sync my own music files between my own computers and my
own google drive. it is not a product, there is no company, and there is no
one here but me.

it exists because google asks for a privacy policy link before it'll let an
app talk to the drive api. so here's one, honestly written.

what this app is

tracksync runs on my laptop and my home server. it copies music files back and
forth between google drive and a hard drive in my house. that's the whole
thing. it's a wrapper around rclone, which does the
actual heavy lifting.

what data it touches

when you authorise the app with your google account, it can read and write the
files in your google drive. it needs this to do the one thing it does — work
out which tracks are new, which are gone, and move them accordingly.

that access is between you and google. the app runs on your own machine.

what i collect

nothing. genuinely, not a thing.

• i don't run a server, so there's nowhere for your data to be sent
• i never see your files, your email address, or your google account
• there are no analytics, no telemetry, no logging back to me
• nothing is shared with anyone, because nothing is collected to share

the access token google gives the app is stored in a config file on your own
computer and never leaves it. sync logs are written next to the script, on
your machine, and only ever list filenames.

realistically, who uses this

me. it's a personal tool published in "production" mode only because that's
what google requires for the login to keep working longer than a week. if
you've somehow found your way here and authorised it, it still only ever
touches your drive, from your own computer.

deleting your data

there isn't any on my end to delete. to cut the app off from your drive, go to
your google account permissions,
find the app, and hit remove. you can also just delete the rclone config file
on your machine.

changes

if this ever changes i'll update this page and bump the date at the top.