🕊️ Glider Privacy Policy

Effective Date: October 11, 2026

1. Overview

OsiVibeCode LLC, an Arizona limited liability company, publishes Glider, an app for macOS, iPhone, iPad and Android that uploads files you give it to your Dropbox. On the Mac it can also keep one folder in sync with Dropbox; on phones you can browse, open and organize the files Glider manages. This policy explains what the app reads, what it sends and to whom, and what it stores. Glider has no account of its own and no advertising.

2. Your Dropbox Account

• Sign-in: happens in your browser, on dropbox.com. Glider never sees your Dropbox password. Dropbox gives Glider a token, which it keeps in your Mac's or iPhone's Keychain, or encrypted with an Android Keystore key on Android.
• Access: Glider is a Dropbox "App folder" app: it can only read and write inside Apps › GliderApp in your Dropbox, never the rest of it.
• Account details: Glider reads your Dropbox account's name, email address and account ID, to show which account is which. These stay on your device.
• Disconnecting: Remove Account in Glider revokes its access. You can also disconnect Glider at any time on dropbox.com › Settings › Connected apps.

3. Your Files

• Uploads: only files you choose: dropped on Glider, picked in the app, shared to Glider from another app, or placed in a folder you chose for Glider. They go directly from your device to Dropbox over an encrypted connection.
• Browsing (iPhone, iPad, Android): Glider lists, opens, renames and deletes files in Apps › GliderApp only when you ask it to. A file you open is downloaded to the app's private cache; files you save go where you choose.
• Sync (Mac): if you turn on two-way sync for a folder, Glider also downloads files from Apps › GliderApp into that folder, and mirrors deletions in both directions. Deleted files go to your Mac's Trash and remain restorable in Dropbox.
• Activity shared between your devices: so each of your devices can show what the others are uploading, Glider keeps a small file per device in a hidden .glider folder in Apps › GliderApp. It holds the device's name (which you can change in Glider's settings) and its recent uploads in that Dropbox account: file names, Dropbox paths, sizes, times, progress and error messages. It stays in your Dropbox; we never receive it. Delete the .glider folder on dropbox.com to remove it.
• Glider never reads file contents for any purpose other than sending them to Dropbox and checking they arrived intact (a checksum Dropbox also computes).

4. Crash Reports and Usage Statistics

Glider uses two Google services, part of Firebase, so we can see when the app crashes or fails and which features are used:

• Firebase Crashlytics sends a report when Glider crashes or hits an unexpected error: where in the app it happened, the app version, your device model and operating system version, free memory and disk space, the time, and a random installation ID. Error messages in these reports are written so they never contain sign-in tokens, file contents, file names or Dropbox paths.
• Google Analytics for Firebase collects usage statistics: when the app is opened and for how long, which screens are shown, app version, device model, operating system, language, and approximate country or region (derived from your IP address, which is not stored). It uses a random app-instance ID, not your name, email or Dropbox account.

This data is not linked to your Dropbox account or your identity, is not used for advertising or to track you across other apps and websites, and is never sold. Google processes it on our behalf under the Firebase privacy and security terms. Crash reports are kept for 90 days. Detailed usage statistics are deleted after 2 months; after that only aggregated, anonymous totals remain.

5. Data Stored on Your Device

Glider keeps the following on your device. None of it is sent to us:

• Sign-in tokens: one per Dropbox account, in the Keychain (Mac, iPhone, iPad) or encrypted with an Android Keystore key (Android).
• Accounts: each account's name, email, upload folder and, on the Mac, Glider folder settings.
• Activity: the names, sizes and dates of the last 100 uploads, and on the Mac which version of each synced file is where, so nothing uploads twice.
• Settings and temporary copies: your preferences, and short-lived copies of shared files waiting to upload or files you opened, deleted when no longer needed.

On the Mac these live in ~/Library/Application Support/Glider/ and ~/Library/Preferences/com.osivibecode.glider.plist. On Android, sign-in tokens and temporary copies are excluded from Android's cloud backup. Glider's own logs never contain sign-in tokens or file contents.

6. Network Connections

• Dropbox (dropbox.com, api.dropboxapi.com, content.dropboxapi.com, notify.dropboxapi.com): to sign in, upload, download and learn about changes. Dropbox handles your files under its own privacy policy.
• Google Firebase: crash reports and usage statistics (section 4).
• Update checks (Mac, downloaded from our website): Glider uses the open-source Sparkle framework. About once a day it downloads a small list of available versions from osivibecode.github.io, and, if you choose to install an update, the new version from github.com. The request names the app and its version, nothing else; GitHub sees your IP address as for any download. Turn it off in Glider ▸ Settings ▸ "Check for updates automatically". Versions from the App Store and Google Play are updated by the store instead.

7. Third-Party Services

The outside services are Dropbox, which you choose to connect; Google Firebase (section 4); and, for the Mac version from our website, GitHub, which hosts updates. Glider contains no advertising SDK. Glider is not made by or affiliated with Dropbox.

8. Permissions

• Notifications: optional, to say when uploads finish or fail. Android asks the first time you upload.
• Files and photos: only the ones you pick or share to Glider, through the system's own pickers. Glider does not ask for access to all your photos or storage.
• Background uploads (Android): long uploads run with a progress notification, so Android doesn't stop them.
• Open at login (Mac): optional, managed by macOS in System Settings › General › Login Items.

Glider does not ask for your location, contacts, camera, microphone, Accessibility, Screen Recording or Full Disk Access.

9. Data Retention & Deletion

We hold no data that identifies you. Crash reports and usage statistics are deleted automatically (section 4). To remove everything Glider stored on your device:

• Remove each account in Glider (this also revokes its Dropbox access).
• Uninstall Glider. On the Mac, also delete ~/Library/Application Support/Glider/ and ~/Library/Preferences/com.osivibecode.glider.plist.

Because crash reports and usage statistics are not linked to your name, email or Dropbox account, we usually cannot pick out one person's data; email us (section 12) with any privacy question or request and we will help as far as we can. Your files in Dropbox and in your Glider folders are yours and stay where they are.

10. Children's Privacy

Glider is a general-purpose utility, not directed at children under 13, and does not knowingly collect personal information from them.

11. Changes to This Policy

If a future version of Glider collects anything new, this page will be updated before that version ships, and the change will be described in the app's release notes.

October 10, 2026: added the iPhone, iPad and Android versions, and crash reports and usage statistics through Firebase (section 4). Earlier versions of the Mac app (1.0.1) send neither.

12. Contact Information

Questions about privacy in Glider:
OsiVibeCode LLC, Arizona, United States
Email: osi.vibe.code@gmail.com