Privacy Policy

Last updated: July 17, 2026

The short version

SpaceUp Mac does not collect, store, transmit, or sell any of your data. Everything the app does happens on your Mac and stays on your Mac. We have no servers, no accounts, no analytics, and no trackers. Your files never leave your computer.

The only time the app contacts the internet is to activate or reconfirm your license on the direct download version. Activation sends your license key and your Mac's name; later checks send the key and its activation ID. Never any file data. That is the whole policy. The sections below spell it out in detail.

1. Who we are

SpaceUp Mac ("the app", "we", "us") is a macOS utility that helps you free up disk space by finding and removing junk files your Mac can rebuild. It is developed and published by IRSHAD PC. You can reach us at irshad@moonlightart.space.

2. What we do not collect

SpaceUp Mac collects none of the following, ever:

The app contains no analytics frameworks, no advertising SDKs, and no third-party code that phones home. It never sends your file data anywhere. On the direct download version, the only network requests it makes are the license checks explained in the Purchases section below. On the Mac App Store version, when available, purchases are handled by Apple's own StoreKit, which talks to the App Store itself.

3. What happens on your Mac

To do its job, SpaceUp Mac reads information about files on your Mac: file names, sizes, locations, and system metadata such as when an app was last opened. This information is processed entirely on your Mac, in memory, and shown to you inside the app so you can decide what to remove. It is never written to any log, never uploaded, and never shared. The single exception to "nothing leaves your Mac" is the license check described in the Purchases section, which carries license details and nothing about your files.

When you choose to remove something, what happens depends on the item, and the app tells you before you clean. Your own files, such as large files and uninstalled apps, are moved to the Trash so you can undo. Rebuildable junk, such as caches, logs and temporary files, is cleared directly. A few clearly labeled items, such as old device backups, are removed permanently, and the app says so on the item itself. No file data is transmitted anywhere in the process.

4. Permissions, and why the app asks for them

SpaceUp Mac asks for access to your files (through Full Disk Access on the direct download version, or a folder picker on the Mac App Store version). This permission is used for exactly one purpose: measuring and cleaning the folders you can see inside the app. You can revoke it at any time in System Settings, and the app keeps working with whatever access remains.

The app never uses this access to read the contents of your documents, photos, messages, or anything else personal. It looks at names, sizes, and dates, because that is all a storage cleaner needs.

5. Purchases

SpaceUp Mac has an optional one-time upgrade, and how it is handled depends on where you got the app.

Direct download version. The upgrade is sold and processed by Lemon Squeezy, our payment and licensing provider (they act as Merchant of Record), under their own privacy policy. We never see your card number or billing information. To activate your upgrade, the app sends your license key and your Mac's name to Lemon Squeezy so it can verify the license. On later launches it reconfirms the license by sending the key and the activation ID Lemon Squeezy assigned. No file data is ever sent.

Mac App Store version (when available). The upgrade is handled by Apple through in-app purchase. Apple handles your payment details; we never see your name, card number, or billing information. The app receives only an anonymous confirmation from Apple that the purchase or restore is valid, and that confirmation stays on your Mac.

6. What we receive from Apple

Once the Mac App Store version is live, we will see the aggregate, anonymized statistics that Apple provides to every developer (for example, total downloads and sales by country). These numbers contain no personal information and cannot be traced to you.

7. Our website

This website (spaceupmac.com) is a static site. We run no analytics, no trackers, and no advertising on it, and we set no cookies. Our hosting provider processes standard request data (such as IP addresses) transiently to deliver the site and protect it from abuse, under its own privacy policy. No data from the SpaceUp Mac app ever reaches the website. See the Cookie Policy for details.

8. Data sharing and selling

We do not share, sell, rent, or trade any data with anyone, and we never will. We keep no data of our own to share in the first place. The only third parties involved are the ones that process a purchase when you choose to buy the upgrade: our payment and licensing provider (Lemon Squeezy) on the direct download version, and Apple on the Mac App Store version. Each handles that transaction under its own privacy policy, and neither receives any data about your files.

9. Data retention

We retain nothing, because nothing is collected. When you delete SpaceUp Mac, what remains on your Mac is: its preferences file, two small entries in your login Keychain (your license activation and a marker that the one free cleanup was used, kept there so they survive a reinstall), and whatever your past cleanups left in the Trash. All of it stays on your Mac. You can remove the Keychain entries yourself in Keychain Access by searching for "spaceupmac".

10. Your rights (GDPR, CCPA, and similar laws)

Privacy laws around the world give you rights to access, correct, export, and delete personal data that companies hold about you. We hold none. If you ever want to exercise these rights anyway, or believe we have data about you, contact us at irshad@moonlightart.space and we will respond. For the record: a request to access your data will receive an empty response, because that is what we have.

If you are in the European Economic Area, the legal basis question does not arise, as no personal data is processed by us. You also have the right to complain to your local data protection authority.

11. Children

SpaceUp Mac is a general-purpose utility, not directed at children, and it collects no data from anyone, including children. No parental consent mechanisms are needed because no data is gathered.

12. Security

Since your data never leaves your Mac, its security is the security of your Mac itself. The app is code-signed and notarized by Apple and distributed as a direct download today (with the Mac App Store to follow), your own files go to the Trash so they can be undone while rebuildable junk is cleared directly, and the app never runs with elevated privileges or asks for your administrator password.

13. Changes to this policy

If SpaceUp Mac ever changes in a way that affects privacy (for example, if a future version added optional crash reporting), we will update this policy before that version ships, change the date at the top, and make the change obvious in the app's release notes. The commitment stands: no silent changes.

14. Contact

Questions about privacy, or anything else: email irshad@moonlightart.space. Developer: IRSHAD PC.