Privacy and your data

Most of what you do in Yardmaster stays on your computer. A few things leave it so that features work, and usage numbers and error reports go to the Yardmaster team unless you turn them off. This page lists both.

What stays on your computer#

Your projects, sessions, conversations, settings, and the messages from tools you connect are kept in Yardmaster's database on your computer. To see the folder, open Settings > System and click Open Data Folder.

Your Anthropic logins, API keys and other passwords are saved encrypted, using your operating system's own protection. They are never part of the usage numbers.

What leaves your computer#

• Your work, to the AI. When an agent runs, what you ask it and the files it reads go to Anthropic (or to another AI service you chose). Built-in helpers, such as session titles and summaries, also send the text they work on to an AI model.

• Your sign-in. Your Yardmaster account is kept in the Yardmaster cloud: your email, your name and your plan. When you sign in, the cloud also notes the country and region you signed in from and keeps them with your account. It also keeps a dated list of your sign-ins for 90 days. That list holds your network (IP) address only in scrambled form, never as is. If you sign in from a country you have not used before, you get an email about it.

• Phone notifications. If you use Yardmaster on your phone, each notification's text (for example a session name, or the sender and subject of an email) passes through the Yardmaster cloud and Google's notification service to reach your phone.

• Usage numbers, while you are signed in. About every 20 minutes, Yardmaster sends that day's totals: how many sessions and messages, how much text the AI read and wrote, active time, AI spend, and your all-time totals and personal bests. They are tied to your account. The report also carries a random id for this copy of Yardmaster, the app version, your operating system and your Claude plan name (if you use a Claude account). It has no project names, session titles or anything you typed.

• Error reports. When the app hits an unexpected error, it sends a text report so the team can fix it: the error, the app version, your operating system and a short trail of what the app was doing just before, which can include the name of a project you started a session in. Secrets and email addresses are removed first. Crash dump files (snapshots of the app's memory when it crashes) are never uploaded; they stay on your computer.

• What you choose to send. Feedback you send from the toolbar's Feedback button, and anything you share or connect, goes where you send it.

Can I encrypt my database?#

Yardmaster has a Database Encryption feature that scrambles the database files on your computer, so they cannot be read without a key. It is off by default.

Remove your data#

• Get a copy first: open Settings > Backup & Restore and click Export Data.

• Your account in the cloud: delete your account from Settings > Accounts.

• What is on this computer: remove projects and sessions in the app. Uninstalling Yardmaster leaves its data folder in place, so delete that folder too if you want everything gone.