01The short version
Rowie is made by MVP STACK LLC, which is the company responsible for the data described on this page.
Rowie reads your CSV, JSON, Parquet, Excel and SQLite files and your MongoDB databases. All of that happens on your Mac. The app has no account, no sync and no analytics.
Rowie is free, so there is no purchase and no licence key. The app talks to the internet only to look for updates and to reach the servers, databases and AI providers you choose. The website counts visits, and nothing more.
02What the app sends
Nothing about your data. No file name, path, row, query or connection detail is transmitted to us or stored anywhere but on your own Mac.
To find updates, the app reads a feed at rowie.app once in a while. That request carries the usual details any web request does, such as your IP address and the app's version, and nothing else.
03Servers you connect to
When you open a remote file or a MongoDB database, the app connects to that server directly, never through us:
- Files on your servers are reached with the ssh already on your Mac, using your keys, your SSH agent and ~/.ssh/config.
- MongoDB connections go straight to the address in your connection string, including MongoDB Atlas.
- Passwords you choose to remember are kept in your Mac’s Keychain.
04If you bought a licence before Rowie was free
Payments were handled entirely by Stripe, so your card number went to Stripe and never to us. We keep the email address you used, your licence key, the Stripe reference and the date, so that earlier versions of Rowie keep working with your key.
Rowie 1.1.1 and earlier check that key with our licence server when they start, sending the key, a random identifier for that installation and the name of your Mac. Rowie 1.2 and later send nothing of the kind. Updating stops these checks.
05The website
rowie.app counts page visits with Piqo Analytics, so we can see which pages people read and where they came from. It has no advertising tracking.
Our server keeps ordinary access logs, which include IP addresses, for a short period to keep the service running and to investigate abuse.
06How that data is protected
The first defence is that there is very little to protect. There are no accounts, so there is no password to steal, and nothing about your data is ever transmitted to us.
- Everything between your browser and this site travels over HTTPS, as does every update check the app makes.
- The records of licences bought earlier hold an email address, a licence key, the Stripe payment reference and the relevant dates. They hold no names, no postal addresses and no card details.
- That database is a file on a server we operate. It is not exposed to the public internet and is reachable only through the licence endpoints earlier versions of the app use.
07How long we keep it
Records of licences bought earlier are kept so that older versions of Rowie keep working with those keys. Ask us and we will delete yours.
Server logs are rotated within a few weeks.
08Your choices
Email hello@rowie.app and we will tell you what we hold under your address, correct it, or delete it. Deleting a licence record stops the key working in Rowie 1.1.1 and earlier, so we will confirm with you first.
09Changes and contact
If this policy changes, the date at the top moves and the change is described here. We will not quietly start collecting something this page says we do not.
Questions go to hello@rowie.app. The terms of use cover using Rowie.