Privacy Policy
Last updated: November 11, 2026
Schema Explorer is a desktop app for macOS and Windows made by Ricardo Gutiérrez (“I”, “me”). This policy explains what happens to your information when you use Schema Explorer and this website.
In short: Schema Explorer doesn’t collect any personal data. There are no accounts, no analytics and no telemetry, and the app sends nothing to me. What it stores stays on your computer.
Your databases
Schema Explorer connects to the database servers you configure, at the addresses you give it: directly, or through a tunnel you’ve opened yourself. It reads their schema, counts rows, shows you data and runs the queries you type. What it reads is shown to you on your screen and isn’t sent anywhere else.
Other connections the app makes
When it starts, Schema Explorer loads its typeface, IBM Plex, from Google Fonts. As with any page that uses Google Fonts, Google receives your IP address with that request, under Google’s Privacy Policy. No database information is part of it.
The app doesn’t check for updates itself: the Mac App Store and the Microsoft Store keep it up to date.
Your passwords
Passwords you save in Schema Explorer go to your operating system’s credential store, the login keychain on macOS or Credential Manager on Windows, under the name “SchemaExplorer”. They never go into the connection file. A password you type into the connection file by hand moves to the credential store the first time you save that connection from the app.
What’s stored on your computer
- Your connections, in
~/.SchemaExplorer/connection.toml(%USERPROFILE%\.SchemaExploreron Windows). - Each connection’s workspaces and console queries, in its own folder under
connectionsin that same folder. A workspace also keeps a description of the tables on it (their columns, keys and row counts), so it can still draw a table that has since been dropped. - The window’s size and position, and whether you’ve seen the introductory tour.
Workspaces you export and pictures of the diagram you download are saved to your Downloads folder. Who you share them with is up to you.
Deleting ~/.SchemaExplorer erases your connections, workspaces and queries. Its passwords stay in the credential store until you delete them there.
What Apple and Microsoft may share with me
Schema Explorer comes from the Mac App Store and the Microsoft Store, services covered by Apple’s and Microsoft’s own privacy policies. If you’ve chosen to share analytics with app developers in your Mac’s Privacy & Security settings, Apple may share crash reports and overall usage statistics with me through App Store Connect. On Windows, depending on your diagnostic data settings, Microsoft may share crash reports and overall usage statistics with me through Partner Center. Neither ever includes your databases, connections or passwords, and you can turn both off in those settings.
This website
This website uses no cookies and no third-party scripts or fonts. The company that hosts it may keep standard server logs, such as IP addresses, for security, under its own policy.
What I see of visits are totals that the hosting company prepares: how many times each page was requested, and from which countries, browsers and websites. Never who visited. The links to the Mac App Store and the Microsoft Store carry a campaign tag, so that Apple and Microsoft can tell me, also as totals, how many people came to Schema Explorer from this website.
Children
Schema Explorer collects no data from anyone, including children.
Your rights
As I hold no personal data about you, there’s nothing for me to access, correct or delete. Your data is under your control, in the folder and credential store described above. If you write to me, I’ll use your message only to reply to you, and delete it when it’s no longer needed.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new date.
Contact
Questions about privacy: support@schemaexplorer.app