What Beautify JSON does with your data.

How you can check that

A privacy policy is only worth as much as the behaviour behind it, so here is what the app actually does rather than what it promises:

• The app is sandboxed (ENABLE_APP_SANDBOX) and its entitlements file grants no permissions at all — including no com.apple.security.network.client. Without that entitlement macOS blocks outgoing connections, so the app cannot send data anywhere even if it tried to.
• There is no networking code: no URLSession, no third-party SDK, and no analytics or crash-reporting library anywhere in the source.
• The only outbound action is opening a link — this page, or the terms page — which hands the URL to your default browser. The app itself makes no request.
• All parsing, formatting, sorting and validation run locally through Foundation’s JSONSerialization.

What is never collected

• The JSON or any other text you paste, type or open
• Personal information of any kind — no name, email or account
• Usage analytics, telemetry, crash reports or diagnostics
• Device identifiers, advertising identifiers or IP addresses
• Location, contacts, camera, microphone or files outside the app

What is stored on your device

Your formatting preferences — indent width, pretty-print, sort keys, escaping slashes

So the app opens the way you left it. Kept in macOS UserDefaults on your Mac, never transmitted, and removed when you delete the app.

Network use

None. The app makes no network requests, so there is no server to hold your data and nothing to breach. It works with Wi-Fi switched off.

Third parties

There are none. No analytics provider, no advertising network, no crash reporter and no backend — so no data is shared with anyone, because none is gathered to share.

Purchases

Any purchase or download is handled entirely by Apple through the App Store. Apple does not share your payment details, and this app never sees them. Apple's own privacy policy covers that transaction.

Children

The app collects no personal information from anyone, so it collects none from children either.

Your rights

Rights such as access, correction, export and erasure exist to give you control over data an operator holds about you. No data about you is held, so there is nothing to request. To remove the preferences stored on your own device, delete the app.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. Since this page is generated from a public repository, the full history of every edit is visible in that repository's commit log.

Contact

Questions about this policy can go through the Beautify JSON page.

See also the Terms of Use.