Privacy Policy

The short version

Trove does not collect, store, transmit, or sell any personal data. There is no dfacto account, no analytics SDK, no advertising identifier, and no server of ours that your files pass through. The app talks to Google Drive and to nothing else.

Where your files go

From your Mac, directly to the Google Drive account you connected. dfacto operates no storage, no relay and no proxy for this product. We could not read your files if we wanted to, because they never travel anywhere we control.

Your Google account

Signing in uses Google's own consent screen in your own browser. The app never sees or handles your password. What Google returns is an access token, which is written to a configuration file inside the app's own folder:

~/Library/Application Support/ai.dfacto.gdrivebackup/rclone.conf

That file is created readable and writable by your user account only. It is never sent anywhere, and the app never reads or writes your existing ~/.config/rclone configuration.

The app requests access to your Google Drive files, because copying them is the entire purpose. It asks for nothing else — not your contacts, not your mail, not your profile beyond the email address it shows you so you can confirm which account is connected.

What is stored on your Mac

• Settings — which folders you chose, your schedule and your exclusions.
• Run history — the most recent 200 backup runs: when each started and finished, whether it succeeded, and how many bytes and files moved. This is what the dashboard reads. It contains no file names or contents.
• Your Drive token, as described above.

All of it stays on your machine. Deleting ~/Library/Application Support/ai.dfacto.gdrivebackup removes all of it.

Disconnecting

Pressing Disconnect in Settings removes the stored token from your Mac. To revoke the app's access from Google's side as well, visit your Google Account's third-party access page and remove rclone, which is the engine this app signs in through.

Changes

If this policy ever changes in a way that affects what is collected, the date at the top changes and the app will say so before the new version does anything different.

Contact

Questions about any of this: privacy@dfacto.ai.