Privacy

Salaryman Asset Manager works entirely on your computer. It makes no network connections of its own: no accounts or sign-in, no analytics or usage tracking, no crash reports, no update checks, and no license or activation checks. It works the same with no internet connection.

What stays on your computer

Everything the app knows about your library is kept in its data folder (see Where your data lives):

• the library database (library.db): your folders, the files in them, tags, collections, packs and their licenses, auto-tag rules;
• your settings (settings.cfg);
• caches of thumbnails, models converted by Blender and files previewed from inside archives;
• the contents of zips you added with Add to library, unpacked so they can be indexed.

None of it is sent anywhere. To share your library with another computer or person, you copy these files yourself.

Your asset files

The app reads your asset files to index them, show previews and fingerprint their contents to find duplicates. Adding a folder doesn’t move or change anything in it. Files on disk only change when you ask for it:

• Bulk Rename renames the files you selected (and Cmd/Ctrl+Z renames them back).
• In Health → Duplicates, Move to Trash moves the extra copies to the Trash, after asking you.
• Export copies files into a folder you choose, with a manifest.json and a CREDITS.md.

Other programs the app starts

A few actions hand off to other programs on your computer. Those programs work on their own terms, outside the app:

• Opening links. The pack Source ↗ link in the inspector and Open documentation (in Settings → About and the command palette) open the page in your default web browser. The browser makes the request, not the app, and only when you click.
• Opening files. Viewing a pack’s license file opens it in your default app for that file type. Reveal in Finder (or Explorer, or your file manager) opens a file manager window.
• Optional tools. If they’re installed, the app runs Blender to convert .blend and .dae models, and the 7z and unrar command-line tools to read 7z and rar archives. They run locally on your files.

What the license agreement says

Section 4, Privacy, of the End User License Agreement says, in short: the app keeps your library and settings on your computer, doesn’t collect personal data, and doesn’t send your library, your files or information about how you use it to Salaryman Inc. or anyone else. If a future version ever contacts a server (for example, to check for updates), its release notes will say so.