This policy applies to the EveryFind macOS app provided by Wang Xiaoxiang (Xiaoxiang Wang, “we,” “us,” or “our”). It explains how the app handles information and the choices you have.
EveryFind builds and searches a file-name index on your Mac. The app does not automatically upload your files, file names, file paths, search queries, index, or diagnostic logs to us. It requires no account and includes no advertising or third-party analytics or tracking SDKs.
Information processed on your Mac
To provide file-name search, EveryFind processes the following information locally:
- File and folder metadata: Names, paths, sizes, modification dates, types, and related file-system attributes within folders you select and authorize. These support indexing, filtering, sorting, and displaying results. EveryFind does not read or index document contents for search.
- Folder permissions and preferences: Search locations, security-scoped bookmarks, exclusion and inclusion rules, language, shortcuts, and interface preferences. These preserve your authorized scope and settings.
- Search input: Queries are used locally to search the index. They are not sent to us or to a third-party search service.
- Local diagnostics: The app records operating states, errors, timing, index counts, and selected file-system event information to help troubleshoot indexing and monitoring. Logs may contain full search-location paths, limited samples of event paths, and error details. These may indirectly include your local account name, folder names, or file names. Logs are not uploaded automatically.
The index, permissions, and preferences are stored in the app’s local storage. Diagnostic logs are stored alongside the index. The log rotates at approximately 2 MB, keeping the current log and one previous log. Log rotation does not clear the index.
File permissions and actions you choose
EveryFind uses macOS App Sandbox. It obtains read-only access to folders you select through the system folder picker and uses security-scoped bookmarks to restore access on later launches. macOS may separately request permission to access protected folders.
Creating, removing, or rebuilding an index does not modify or delete your original files. When you choose to open a file, reveal it in Finder, or copy a path or file name, the app passes the relevant information to macOS, an app you use, or the system clipboard. You initiate these actions, and the recipient’s own practices govern subsequent handling.
External storage, network storage, and system services
You may authorize folders on mounted external or network storage. When accessing network storage or system-managed cloud folders, macOS and the relevant storage service may access file-system information or synchronize files over the network according to your configuration. This does not cause EveryFind to upload the index or file data to our servers. Storage services, system backups, and synchronization are governed by the relevant services and your settings.
When the app is distributed through the Apple App Store, Apple may process purchase, download, diagnostic, or store usage information under its own policies. We do not control Apple’s independent data processing.
When you contact us
If you email [email protected], we receive your email address, your message, and any screenshots, logs, or other attachments you choose to provide. We use this information to respond, troubleshoot problems, and improve the app, not for advertising.
Sharing diagnostic logs is optional. Before sending them, review and remove account names, file paths, file names, or other personal information you do not want to share. Email providers process information to deliver and store messages. We retain support materials only as long as needed to handle the request and reasonable follow-up, unless retention is required by law.
Sharing, advertising, and tracking
EveryFind includes no advertising or third-party analytics or tracking SDKs, does not build advertising profiles, and does not sell or rent personal information. We do not automatically receive your local index or logs. Information you voluntarily send for support is used or disclosed only for service processing necessary to provide support, to meet applicable legal obligations, or with your consent.
Your choices, retention, and deletion
- You can disable or remove a search location in Settings to stop indexing and monitoring it. Removing a location deletes the location and its associated index records from the app’s database. Disabling it alone does not delete existing records.
- You can change exclusion rules or rebuild an index. Rebuilding updates index records; it does not clear all app data.
- Local indexes and preferences remain until you remove the relevant records or delete the corresponding app data. Uninstalling the app alone does not guarantee removal of app containers, preferences, or backups retained by macOS.
- To clear all local data, quit the app before deleting its app container and related preferences. Contact us at the address below for help. Residual copies in databases, file systems, or backups may require separate removal; logical deletion is not secure erasure.
- To request access to, correction of, or deletion of support information you have emailed to us, contact us below. We cannot remotely read or delete data stored only on your Mac.
Security and changes to this policy
EveryFind limits file access through the macOS sandbox, user authorization, and read-only indexing. The security of local data also depends on your device account, system permissions, disk encryption, and backup settings.
We may update this policy as app features or information-handling practices change and revise the “Last updated” date on this page. If future processing requires additional disclosure or authorization, we will provide the relevant information and request necessary permissions where applicable.
Contact and scope
Developer: Wang Xiaoxiang (Xiaoxiang Wang)
Privacy and support email: [email protected]
Website: dylab.org
This policy describes the EveryFind app and related email support. Server access logs, cookies, or other processing when you visit a website are subject to that website’s own privacy information and actual configuration. The app’s local processing practices do not imply that the website processes no visitor information.