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# Privacy Policy for WezTerm
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No data about your device(s) or WezTerm usage leave your device.
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## Data Maintained by WezTerm
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WezTerm maintains some historical data, such as recent searches or action
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usage, in some of its overlays such as the debug overlay and character
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selector, in order to make your usage more convenient. It is used only
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by the local process, and care is taken to limit access for the associated
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files on disk to only your local user identity.
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WezTerm tracks the output from the commands that you have executed in
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a scrollback buffer. At the time of writing, that scrollback buffer
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is an in-memory structure that is not visible to other users of the machine.
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In the future, if wezterm expands to offload scrollback information to
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your local disk, it will do so in such a way that other users on the
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same system will not be able to inspect it.
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## macOS and Data permissions
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On macOS, when a GUI application that has a "bundle" launches child processes
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(eg: WezTerm, running your shell, and your shell running the programs which you
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direct it to run), any permissioned resource access that may be attempted by
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those child processes will be reported as though WezTerm is attempting to
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access those resources.
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The result is that from time to time you may see a dialog about WezTerm
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accessing your Contacts if run a `find` command that happens to step through
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the portion of your filesystem where the contacts are stored. Or perhaps you
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are running a utility that accesses your camera; it will appear as though
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WezTerm is accessing those resources, but it is not: there is no logic within
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WezTerm to attempt to access your contacts, camera or any other sensitive
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information.
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## Update Checking
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By default, once every 24 hours, wezterm makes an HTTP request to GitHub's
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release API in order to determine if a newer version is available and to
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notify you if that is the case.
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The content of that request is private between your machine and GitHub. The
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contributors to WezTerm cannot see inside that request and therefore cannot
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infer any information from it.
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If you wish, you can disable update checking. See
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https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/config/lua/config/check_for_updates.html for
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more information on that.
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## Third-Party Builds
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The above is true of the wezterm source code and the binaries produced by
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wezterm's CI and made available from https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/ and
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https://github.com/wez/wezterm/.
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If you obtained a pre-built wezterm binary from some other source be aware that
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the person(s) building those versions may have modified them to behave
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differently from the source version.
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