Who is responsible
Maben Base and this website are made by Max Benschop in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. For anything about your data, email maxbenschop1@gmail.com.
The app
What stays on your Mac
In ~/Library/Application Support/Maben Base/ the app keeps your connections (names, hosts, user names and options, but no passwords), the connections and tabs that were open, your snippets, and per connection the last 1,000 statements you ran and the queries you saved. Settings and column layouts are in the app's preferences. Passwords, SSH passphrases and certificate passwords are in your Keychain, under gg.maben.base. None of this is sent to me or to anyone else, and I can't see it.
The rows you look at are not kept: a table or a result is gone when its tab closes. Statements in the history are kept as you typed them, so a value you wrote into a statement is in that history until you clear it or remove the connection.
Your databases
The app connects to the databases you add, directly or through the SSH tunnel you set up, and reads and writes only what you ask it to. For Cloudflare D1, Snowflake and BigQuery, that means requests to Cloudflare's, Snowflake's and Google's APIs with the credentials you entered, under their privacy policies. For Oracle, DuckDB and backups it runs the tools on your Mac, such as sqlplus and pg_dump.
Sync
If you turn on sync in Settings, your connections, without passwords, are written to a file in your iCloud Drive, so your other Macs can read them. Apple stores that file under Apple’s privacy policy. Sync is off until you turn it on.
Updates
Apart from your databases, the app makes one kind of request: at start, every 6 hours and after waking, it asks the GitHub API for the latest release of Maben Base, and when there is a new one it downloads it from GitHub. GitHub sees your IP address and the app’s version, under GitHub’s privacy statement. Nothing about your connections or databases is part of that request. You can switch it off in Settings under Updates. The app doesn’t report errors or measure use.
This website
This website sets no cookies and uses no analytics, tracking or third-party embeds. The fonts are served from this site itself.
The site runs on a server I manage and is delivered through Cloudflare, which acts as its network provider. To deliver and protect the site, Cloudflare processes technical data about each request, such as your IP address and browser, under Cloudflare’s privacy policy. My own web server doesn’t keep access logs. The download comes from GitHub, under GitHub’s privacy statement.
If you email me
If you email me, for support or with feedback, I use your email address and message only to reply. I don’t share them and don’t add you to any list. I delete them when you ask. Email is handled by Google (Gmail).
Your rights
Under the GDPR you can ask what personal data I hold about you, and ask me to correct or delete it, or to stop using it. Email maxbenschop1@gmail.com. The only personal data I could have is your email if you wrote to me; data in the app never reaches me. If you think your data is handled wrongly, you can complain to the Dutch Data Protection Authority.
The legal basis is my legitimate interest in answering messages and keeping this website running safely.
Changes
If the app or this website starts handling data differently, for example when the app is released through an app store, this page will be updated and the date at the top will change.