Effective 19 July 2026 · applies to the Canopy desktop app and canopyide.dev
The Canopy app
Canopy collects no data. None. There is no account, no sign-in, no telemetry, no analytics, no crash reporting, and no server of ours for the app to talk to. Your code, your prompts, your terminal sessions, and your project configuration live on your machine (~/.canopy/) and never reach us. We cannot see how you use Canopy, and we like it that way.
Two qualifications, in the interest of honesty:
- Auto-update. Canopy periodically checks GitHub for a newer release and downloads it from GitHub releases. Like any web request, this exposes your IP address and basic request metadata to GitHub, governed by the GitHub Privacy Statement. No identifier of you or your machine is included; it is a plain download request. Updates for .deb/.rpm installs go through your package manager instead.
- Agent CLIs are third parties. Canopy launches tools like Claude Code, Codex, or Aider in a terminal, but they are separate software with their own vendors, API keys, and privacy policies. What an agent sends to its model provider is between you and that provider; Canopy neither adds to it nor sees it.
The website (canopyide.dev)
- Analytics. The website uses analytics to understand how it's used, which pages are visited, roughly where visitors come from, and how the site performs, so we can improve it. This may involve cookies or similar technologies, and a third-party analytics provider processing that data on our behalf. We look at it only in aggregate; we don't use it to identify you personally, and we never sell it.
- Hosting. The site runs on a third-party hosting provider whose servers keep standard request logs (such as IP address and user agent) as a normal part of serving any website.
- Fonts. The site loads one typeface from Google Fonts, which means your browser makes a request to Google's servers.
- Downloads and version checks. Download links point at GitHub releases, and the download page may query the GitHub API for the latest version number, both requests go to GitHub, not to us.
What we hold about you
Beyond the aggregate, non-identifying website analytics described above, nothing, unless you choose to interact with us on GitHub (issues, pull requests, discussions, or sponsorships), in which case that interaction is public and governed by GitHub's terms, or you email us directly, in which case we have your email.
Children
Neither the app nor the site is directed at children, and neither collects personal information from anyone, children included.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be published at this address with an updated effective date. Since the app doesn't phone home, a policy change can never retroactively grant us data, the app you already have keeps behaving as described above.
Contact
Questions or concerns: open an issue on GitHub. Canopy is maintained by Cause Connect Pte. Ltd., Singapore.