Hush Backup privacy policy

Last updated November 10, 2026

What the app reads and writes

Hush Backup can open only the folders you pick. It reads the folders you choose to back up and cannot change them. It writes the encrypted backup into the destinations you choose: a folder in iCloud Drive, Google Drive, OneDrive or Dropbox, an external disk or a NAS.

Encryption and your key

Everything is encrypted on your Mac before it leaves. Your key is the 24 words on your recovery card. It is kept in your Mac's Keychain, on that Mac only and never synced to iCloud Keychain, so the app can run backups, and on the card you print or write down. It is kept nowhere else. We never receive it and keep no copy, so we cannot open your backup or help you recover it if the card and the Mac are both lost.

Your storage provider

The app itself has no permission to use the network. If a destination is a folder that iCloud Drive, Google Drive, OneDrive or Dropbox looks after, that provider's own app copies the encrypted pieces to its servers under your account with them, and its privacy policy applies to that. The provider holds only scrambled pieces with meaningless names: it cannot see a file or a file name.

What is collected

Nothing. There is no account, no analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising and no tracking. The App Store privacy label is Data Not Collected. Nobody, including the developer, can see your files.

This website

This site uses no cookies and no analytics scripts. Like any website, the hosting provider's servers see the address a request comes from when they answer it.

If you write to support

If you email support@hushminutes.com or use the form on the contact page, your message and address are used only to answer you. The form is delivered as an email by Resend, an email delivery service.

Children

The app collects nothing from anyone, of any age.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version is posted here with a new date.

Contact

Keith Adler, support@hushminutes.com