Privacy policy

Who we are

Mimac is made by Justin Ponczek, a sole developer. In this policy "we" and "us" mean him. You can reach us at support@mimac.ai.

The summary

• There are no accounts. You never sign in to anything of ours.
• There are no servers. We do not operate any service that your devices connect to, other than serving this website and the Mac app's update feed as static files.
• There are no analytics, no telemetry, no advertising identifiers and no third-party crash-reporting SDKs in either app.
• Your screen, audio, clipboard, keyboard and mouse input, and microphone travel only between your own iPad and your own Mac, end-to-end encrypted. We cannot see them, and neither can anyone else.

What the apps handle, and where it goes

When you use Mimac, the following data moves between your iPad and your Mac, and nowhere else:

• Video of the Mac's display, encoded on the Mac and decoded on the iPad.
• Audio from the Mac to the iPad, and, if you installed the optional Mimac Microphone component, audio from the iPad's microphone to the Mac.
• Clipboard contents, synchronised in both directions. Content marked as concealed, such as passwords copied from a password manager, is not synchronised.
• Keyboard, trackpad and touch input from the iPad to the Mac, including dictated text.
• Screenshots you take with Mimac's gestures, placed on the Mac's clipboard.

All of it is encrypted end to end using keys that exist only on your two devices, established when you pair them with the six-digit code. On your local network the devices communicate directly. Away from home, they communicate through your own Tailscale network, which adds its own encryption. We never receive, store, relay or have access to any of this data.

What is stored on your devices

• On the iPad: the names and addresses of Macs you have added, the pairing keys for each, and your settings, including the tuning panel. Pairing keys are stored in the iOS Keychain.
• On the Mac: the list of paired iPads and their keys, stored in the macOS Keychain, and the app's settings.

Deleting the apps removes this data, apart from Keychain items that macOS may retain until you remove them. Nothing is backed up to us, because there is no us to back up to. Your device backups (iCloud, Time Machine) may include the apps' settings under Apple's policies.

Third parties

Mimac depends on a few companies whose privacy policies apply to what they handle:

• Apple. The App Store handles the download, the in-app purchase, receipts, refunds and Family Sharing. Apple may share crash reports and usage statistics with us only if you have opted in to sharing analytics with developers in iPadOS settings; those reports are anonymised by Apple. Apple's policy: apple.com/legal/privacy.
• Tailscale. Optional, and only if you install it for use away from home. Tailscale coordinates the connection between your devices and, when a direct path is not possible, relays encrypted traffic it cannot read. Tailscale's policy: tailscale.com/privacy-policy.
• GitHub. The Mimac Connect installer is downloaded from GitHub Releases, and this website, including the update feed at mimac.ai/appcast.xml, is served by GitHub Pages. When Mimac Connect checks for updates, it fetches that feed; the request carries your IP address and the app's version and macOS version, as any web request does, and is subject to GitHub's privacy statement. We do not receive server logs.

This website

mimac.ai is a static site. It sets no cookies, runs no analytics and loads nothing from third-party servers. If you email us, we keep the email for as long as it is useful for helping you and delete it afterwards.

Children

Mimac is a utility for controlling a computer you own. It is not directed at children, and we collect no data from anyone, of any age.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version appears at this address with a new effective date. If the change is material, for example if a future version of Mimac ever collected anything, the app itself will tell you before it does.

Contact

Questions about privacy: support@mimac.ai.