Effective date: November 2, 2026
Sweepback is a desktop app for Windows and macOS made by Manh Pham. This policy explains what the app reads on your computer and what it keeps.
The short version
Sweepback works entirely on your computer. It has no accounts, no analytics, no advertising, no crash reporting and it makes no network requests. Nothing about you or your files is sent to the developer or to anyone else.
What the app reads
To show what can be cleaned, Sweepback reads, only on your computer and only when you open the matching screen or start a scan:
- File names, sizes and dates in the folders a cleanup category covers (for example your Temp folder, app caches, developer package caches, your Downloads folder) and in folders you choose yourself (Large & Duplicate Files, Developer Workspace Map). For duplicate detection it computes SHA-256 checksums of file contents; the contents themselves are not stored.
- Browser data sizes for Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge and Mozilla Firefox: the size of their cache, history and cookie files. Sweepback never reads the contents of these files, never reads passwords, bookmarks or extensions, and never reads cookie values.
- Windows only: the list of installed apps and startup entries from the Windows registry, the contents list of the Recycle Bin, and the Task Scheduler entry Sweepback creates if you schedule a scan.
- Free and used space of the drive that holds your user folder.
What the app stores
Sweepback keeps a small database in its own data folder (%LOCALAPPDATA%\com.manhpham.sweepback on
Windows, ~/Library/Application Support/com.manhpham.sweepback on macOS). It contains:
- your settings, exclusions and Protected Collections (folder paths you add);
- the Cleanup Recovery list: the original path, size, date and SHA-256 checksum of each item you cleaned, so it can be restored;
- Audit History: what each scan, cleanup, restore or setting change did;
- storage snapshots: dates and the used / free space of your system drive.
Files you clean are moved into the Vault folder inside the same data folder and stay there until they
expire or you delete them permanently in Recovery Hub. You can clear Audit History in the app at any time.
Uninstalling the app and deleting its data folder removes everything it stored.
What the app changes
Sweepback only changes things when you ask it to: moving the items you selected into Cleanup Recovery, restoring them, emptying the Recycle Bin (Windows asks you to confirm), turning a startup app on or off, starting an app's own uninstaller, or creating / removing its scheduled scan. Scheduled scans only scan; they never clean.
Children
Sweepback is a general-purpose utility and does not knowingly collect information from anyone, including children.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version is published with the app update that introduces the change, with a new effective date.
Contact
Questions about privacy: manhpv151090@gmail.com