Privacy Policy

None. LexShell does not require an account and does not collect personal information. We do not ask for — or receive — your name, email address, phone number, contacts, location, photos, or any other personally identifiable information. We do not link anything to your Apple ID, your device ID, your advertising identifier, or any other identifier that could be used to recognize you.

The app contains no analytics SDKs, no third-party tracking, and no usage telemetry. It does not log which hosts you connect to, what commands you type, or what appears in your terminal, and it sends no record of any of that to us or to anyone else. We do not operate a server that receives data from the app, and there is nothing to opt out of because there is nothing being sent.

The connection details you enter — host names, addresses, usernames, passwords, and private keys — are stored locally on your device and are used only to open the connections you request. They are never transmitted to us. The contents of your terminal sessions exist only between your device and the server you connected to; we cannot see them, and we would have no way to.

When you connect to a server, your device talks to that server directly over SSH. There is no relay, proxy, or intermediary of ours in the path. What the servers you connect to do with their own connection logs is between you and whoever runs those servers (which, we suspect, is usually you).

LexShell can list SSH hosts that advertise themselves on your local network (via Bonjour). That discovery happens entirely on your device, on your network. The list of discovered machines is not stored beyond what you choose to save, and it is never sent anywhere.

Your saved hosts, your color-scheme choice, and your other app preferences are stored locally on your device using the operating system’s standard on-device storage. This information never leaves your device, is never transmitted to us, and is removed when you delete the app.

• We do not collect your name, email address, phone number, or contact information.
• We do not collect your location or any geolocation data.
• We do not access your contacts, photos, calendar, microphone, or camera.
• We do not collect your Apple ID, advertising identifier (IDFA), or other persistent device identifiers.
• We do not collect your host lists, credentials, keys, commands, or terminal output.
• We do not use third-party advertising networks or analytics SDKs that track you across apps.
• We do not sell, rent, or share personal information with third parties — there is none to share.

If you choose to email us through our support page or directly at lex@lexfriedman.com, we will of course see your email address and the content of your message. We use that information only to respond to you. We do not add you to any mailing list and we do not share your email with anyone.

We never collect or maintain information from those we actually know are under 13, and no part of the app is structured to attract anyone under 13.

We comply with the California Online Privacy Protection Act. We do not distribute personal information to outside parties — primarily because we don’t collect any to begin with.

Because LexShell does not collect personal data, GDPR data-subject requests (access, deletion, portability) would return nothing about you. Any non-personal, on-device information stays on your device.

Although most changes are likely to be minor, LexShell may change this Privacy Policy from time to time, at our sole discretion. Your continued use of the app after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change. The “Effective” date at the top of this page reflects the most recent revision.

Questions about this policy? Email lex@lexfriedman.com or use our support form.