Portara
Privacy Policy

Portara collects nothing.

Not anonymised analytics. Not crash telemetry. Not a device identifier. There is no account, no server, and nothing to opt out of.

Portara has no network access. The app is sandboxed by macOS and does not request the network entitlement, so it is incapable of sending data anywhere — even if it wanted to. You can verify this yourself: run codesign -d --entitlements - /Applications/Portara.app and note the absence of any com.apple.security.network key.

What Portara touches

Portara copies photos and videos from a connected iPhone, iPad or camera into a folder you choose. Everything it reads and writes stays on your Mac.

Your connected device

Read-only. Portara lists your photos and videos and copies the ones you select. It never deletes or modifies anything on the device.

The folder you pick

The only place Portara writes. macOS grants access to that folder alone, through the standard system file picker.

App preferences

Your chosen folder, layout preference, and the list of files that previously failed to transfer. Stored locally in macOS preferences.

The diagnostics log

Kept in memory while the app runs, for troubleshooting. Nothing leaves your Mac unless you deliberately copy or export it and send it somewhere.

What Portara does not do

  • No analytics, telemetry, or usage statistics.
  • No crash reporting services.
  • No advertising, and no advertising identifiers.
  • No third-party SDKs of any kind.
  • No accounts, sign-in, or cloud sync.
  • No reading of your Photos library — Portara talks to the connected device directly.
  • No tracking across apps, websites, or devices.

Your photos and videos

Portara copies files byte for byte. Image content, EXIF metadata, location data and timestamps are transferred unchanged from your device to your folder. That data is never inspected for any purpose beyond the import itself: capture dates are read to sort files into folders, and file contents are hashed locally to detect duplicates you already imported.

Those hashes exist only in memory for the duration of an import. They are not stored, and they are not sent anywhere.

Children

Portara is a utility with no accounts, no content submission, and no communication features. It collects no data from anyone, including children under 13.

Changes to this policy

If this policy ever changes, the updated version will be posted on this page with a new date. Because Portara collects nothing, any future change would have to be an addition — and would be described here plainly before it shipped.

Contact

Questions about this policy, or anything else about the app: support@chateclipse.com.

Last updated: 4 August 2026