Privacy Policy

Version 1.9 · effective 2026-11-06

This describes what information AI Finder ("the app") handles. The app is a tool for tidying your files, and it processes information only as far as that purpose requires.

1. What the app creates

The app reads the folders you choose (by default: Desktop, Downloads, Documents) and stores the following in a database on your device.

File names and full paths
File sizes and last-modified times
Content hashes used to detect duplicates

That database exists only on your device. Location: ~/Library/Application Support/AI Finder/aifinder.db

File contents themselves are not stored. The hash used for duplicate detection is a summary of the content, and the original cannot be reconstructed from it.

2. What leaves your device

By default the app sends nothing anywhere. Transmission happens only when you turn on the features below, and only as far as each one needs.

a. Chat (only if you have chosen an AI provider in Settings)

Your question is sent along with the file names, folder paths, sizes and modified times needed to answer it. What is inside a file is sent only if you have also turned on (b) below.

Where it goes depends on the provider you chose in Settings.

Claude Anthropic, PBC https://www.anthropic.com/legal/privacy OpenAI OpenAI, L.L.C. https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy Local model On your device. Nothing leaves it Custom server The address you entered. Its own policy applies

You can mask personal information before it is sent. Settings offers three levels under "Mask before sending".

Off File names and paths are sent as they are Standard Removes national ID, phone, email, bank account, card, business registration and passport numbers, and shortens your home directory path to ~ Strict Everything in Standard, plus Korean words of two to four characters that look like personal names. Ordinary vocabulary is left alone

The app remembers what it masked and puts the real values back into the answer. The AI only ever sees the masked version.

It is not complete, though. Numbers with a clear format are reliably masked, but information with no fixed shape — a person's name, a company, a project name — is not caught at the Standard level. If such information is in your file names and must not leave your device, choose Strict or use a local model.

If you do not configure an AI, chat stays locked and everything else works as normal. Keys are stored per provider in the macOS Keychain and never appear in the settings file.

b. Reading inside files (only if you turn it on separately)

Off by default. Choosing an AI provider is not enough; this is a second switch of its own.

With it on, when answering needs what a document says rather than what it is called, the assistant reads the text of that file and sends part of it. It sends a slice at a time rather than the whole document, and reads on only if that was not enough. PDFs and images are recognised into text on your device first, and it is that text which is sent.

Which files were read, and how much of each, is shown with the answer.

Redaction always applies to this text, at the Strict level, even when 'Hide before sending' is set to Off. Sending a file's name and sending what is written inside it are not the same kind of thing.

Text recognised from a file is held on your device while the app is running so the same file need not be read twice. Turning this off clears that too.

c. Update checks (only if you agreed to receive them)

A request goes to the distribution server to see whether a new version exists. Your current version and operating system are included. No file information or usage history is sent.

d. Google Drive (only if you connect an account)

When you connect a Google account in Settings, the app accesses your Drive on your behalf, calling the Drive API with the token Google issues. In Drive it does only what you ask it to, from the app's own interface:

List files and folders, to browse your Drive from the sidebar
Create folders, when you make one
Rename, when you rename something
Move and copy, when you drag or duplicate
Upload local files you drag in
Download files you drag out; Google formats export as Office files
Trash and restore — deletion goes to Drive's trash, and Undo brings it back
Share — create links, grant, list and revoke per-person access

The refresh token is stored only in the macOS Keychain; the access token is held in memory for the session and never written to disk. Drive file contents are never transmitted to or stored on our servers — they travel only between your device and Google. Drive listings stay in memory while a folder is on screen and are never written to the app's database. Disconnecting the account asks Google to revoke the app's access and deletes the stored token immediately.

The chat in (a) does not look at your Drive. Drive file names and contents are not sent to any AI provider.

The app's use of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. Drive data is used only for the features above, never for advertising, never sold or transferred, never used to train a model, and not read by humans. A policy covering this in English alone is published at https://finder.speciai.kr/privacy-google-en and controls for Google user data.

The app uses no analytics and no advertising identifiers.

3. Retention and deletion

The index is refreshed each time you scan, and records of files that no longer exist are removed automatically.

Tidy-up history is kept so that changes can be undone. Records that have already been undone are deleted automatically after 90 days; records still awaiting undo remain until you undo them or remove the app.

If you uninstall the app, please also delete the folder below. That removes every record.

~/Library/Application Support/AI Finder/

API keys are erased from the Keychain the moment you press "Delete".

4. How files are handled

The app never deletes files permanently. Every deletion is a move to the Trash and can be reversed in Finder. Renames and moves can be undone from the app's History tab.

The following are never touched, under any circumstances.

Anything outside your home directory
~/Library, ~/.ssh, ~/.gnupg, ~/.config, ~/.aws
Anything outside the folders you chose in Settings
Source code and project files

Every tidy-up is shown as a list first, and only the items you select are carried out. There is no path by which the app changes files on its own.

5. Your rights

Everything the app handles sits on your own device, so you can view, change and delete it yourself. You can change the target folders in Settings at any time, and turn chat, reading inside files, and update checks off whenever you like.

6. Contact

Speciai · Representative: Cho Sarang Business registration 192-34-01701 E-commerce licence 2026-Seoul Gangnam-05257 4F, 8 Teheran-ro 2-gil, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea contact@speciai.ai.kr

7. Changes

If this policy changes, we will tell you inside the app and ask you to accept the new version.

8. Language

This is a translation provided for convenience. The Korean text is the original, and where the two differ the Korean governs.

Version 1.9 · effective 2026-11-06