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Privacy Policy

Provadyne Last updated: 2026-04-28

Summary

Question Answer
Do we collect personal data? No
Do we send your code to external servers? Only if you explicitly configure a BYOK API key
Do we use analytics or tracking? No
Do we store anything in the cloud? No

Data We Do NOT Collect

Provadyne is designed for engineers working in IP-sensitive environments. We collect no data whatsoever:

  • No source code
  • No file paths
  • No usage telemetry
  • No crash reports
  • No identifiers (device ID, user ID, IP address)

Local-Only Analysis

All analysis runs entirely on your local machine:

  1. The Chrome Extension communicates only with the local daemon at http://localhost:9400
  2. The daemon runs analysis using cppcheck and your local Python environment
  3. No data is transmitted outside your machine in the default configuration

BYOK (Bring Your Own Key) Mode

If you choose to enable an external LLM API (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.):

  • You configure the API key and endpoint in the Extension settings
  • Source code snippets relevant to the requested analysis are sent to your chosen provider
  • This transmission is governed by your provider's privacy policy
  • The key is stored in Chrome's encrypted local storage and is never transmitted to us

To avoid any external transmission, use Local (Ollama) mode.

Chrome Storage

The extension stores the following in Chrome's local (non-synced) storage:

  • Daemon URL (default: http://localhost:9400)
  • LLM mode preference (local or api)
  • License file path (local path only, not the license contents)

This data never leaves your browser.

Updates

The daemon checks GitHub's public releases API (api.github.com) once at startup and every 24 hours to detect new versions. Only the version number is read — no data is sent. This check can be disabled by blocking network access to the daemon process.

Contact

For privacy questions, open an issue at github.com/sgchoi/provadyne.