Skiff

Privacy · Effective November 7, 2026

Skiff collects no data. It has no account, analytics or tracking. Your audio is processed on your Mac and never recorded or sent anywhere.

This policy covers the Skiff app for Mac and this website. "We" means DWS Engineering, LLC and Tanishq Dubey, who make Skiff.

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01What we collect

Nothing. We don't collect, store, sell or share personal data, usage data, diagnostics or identifiers.

02What stays on your Mac

Skiff asks macOS for a few permissions. Everything they give it stays on your Mac.

  • Microphone. To run your input chain and Monitor. The audio goes through your plug-ins and on to the apps that record; Skiff doesn't save it.
  • System audio capture, for the visualizer. Samples are analyzed in memory to draw six bars and then discarded.
  • Administrator password, once, to install the audio driver. Skiff never sees or stores it; macOS handles the prompt.

The Album Art visualizer reads the now-playing cover from macOS to pick its colors. It stays in memory. Chains, presets and settings are saved as files in ~/Library/Application Support/Skiff.

Microphone and system audio permissions in Setup & Repair.

03Network

Skiff makes one kind of network request. When you search in Headphone EQ, it downloads AutoEq's profile index and the profile you pick from GitHub (raw.githubusercontent.com). GitHub sees your IP address, as it would for any download, under GitHub's privacy statement. Importing a ParametricEQ.txt file from disk makes no request.

04Purchases

Payment is handled by Stripe as merchant of record. We receive your email address and what you bought, never your card details. We email your license key to that address once, and use it to find the key again if you lose it. The key carries your email, and Skiff checks it on your Mac without contacting us.

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05Email

If you email us, we get your address and whatever you write. We use it to reply and to fix what you reported. We don't add you to a list or share it. Ask and we'll delete it.

06This website

This site sets no cookies, runs no analytics and loads nothing from third parties; its fonts are served from here. Like any web server, ours may log the IP address, time and page of a request to keep the site running and secure. Those logs aren't used to track you and aren't shared.

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07Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new effective date. If Skiff ever starts collecting data, this page will say what, why and how before an update that does so ships.

08Contact

Questions or requests: admin@dws.rip.