Oxotl Privacy Policy

Last updated: May 3, 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how Oxotl handles information in connection with Oxotl and the Oxotl website. Oxotl is provided by Hunter Delattre.

Short version

Oxotl does not collect your app data.

The app does not send us your prompts, code, repositories, Codex sessions, diffs, commits, terminal output, or local metadata.

Oxotl keeps app data on your Mac. We only receive information when you send it to us directly, such as by contacting support, or when a payment, license, update, or download provider processes an action you start.

What stays on your Mac

Oxotl stores a small amount of local metadata so the app can work. This may include:

• app preferences, such as palette and interface settings;
• selected folders and security-scoped bookmarks;
• hidden-session state, branch metadata, generated worktree metadata, timestamps, and related session or workspace state;
• license state, including a license key in Keychain, a license instance identifier, validation timestamps, license status, key suffix, and customer email when returned by the license provider.

Oxotl does not send this local app metadata to us.

What Oxotl may read locally

To provide its features, Oxotl may read information that already exists on your Mac, including local Codex state databases and rollout/session files, local repository and workspace paths, related Git state, and files or folders you explicitly choose to open or authorize.

Reading this information locally does not mean we receive it.

License activation and purchases

If you activate, validate, refresh, or deactivate a paid license, Oxotl sends the license key and license instance information to Lemon Squeezy so the license can be checked. Lemon Squeezy may return license status, customer email, product metadata, and related transaction information.

Purchases are handled by our payment provider, downloads may be served through GitHub Releases, and app updates may be checked or delivered through Sparkle. These providers may process purchase, account, tax, payment, refund, fraud-prevention, update-check, download, and access information under their own terms and privacy policies.

Codex and third-party services

Oxotl is a companion for Codex. When you use Codex, OpenAI services, Terminal, Git, Git hosting, app marketplaces, Lemon Squeezy, GitHub Releases, Sparkle, local model runtimes, hosted model providers, or other tools outside Oxotl, those services handle their own information under their own terms and privacy policies.

In short:

• Lemon Squeezy handles payments and license validation.
• Sparkle, GitHub Releases, or another download provider may check for, serve, or deliver updates and downloads.
• Codex, OpenAI, Git hosting, model providers, and other developer tools handle the data you send to them through your own workflows.

You are responsible for reviewing the privacy practices of third-party services you choose to use.

Website and support

The Oxotl website does not require cookies or tracking scripts.

If you contact support, we receive the information you include in that message, such as your email address and the details needed to help you.

Permissions

Depending on which features you use, Oxotl may request system permissions such as file and folder access.

Because Oxotl can start and manage Codex work, macOS may show permission prompts as coming from Oxotl when a Codex command reads a folder, searches a broad directory, or accesses files associated with another app. Those prompts are part of the local workflow on your Mac; they do not mean we receive that data.

You can decline many permissions, but some features may not work without them.

Retention

Local data stored by Oxotl stays on your Mac until you delete it in the app or through macOS, revoke folder access or permissions, deactivate a license, uninstall Oxotl, or delete related local files, preferences, Keychain items, or Codex-generated artifacts.

Because we do not maintain local app data on our own servers, we may have little or nothing to provide in response to an access, correction, portability, or deletion request beyond information you separately send us directly or information available through a payment, download, or purchase provider.

Changes

If Oxotl's privacy practices change, we will update this page. The updated version becomes effective when posted, unless a later date is stated.

Contact

For privacy questions, email support@oxotl.com.