Privacy

Data Sift collects

None. Sift has no account system, analytics, advertising, telemetry, or remote service. The extension makes no network requests of its own and does not sell, share, or transmit personal data.

What Sift can read

After you grant Safari permission for x.com or twitter.com, Sift reads posts already rendered in the X Home timeline so it can identify repeated stories. It does not receive your X password or account credentials, call the X API, crawl or auto-scroll the site, fetch posts X did not show you, or export a feed.

Sift performs no automated actions. It does not post, reply, like, repost, follow, bookmark, or send messages on your behalf.

What stays on your Mac

Sift stores your selected mode and options in Safari's local extension storage. To recognise recent repetition, it also keeps short-lived post IDs and non-reversible numeric feature hashes, along with local counters. Raw post text, usernames, and URLs are not persisted.

The recent-story history and Enough today choices are automatically pruned after up to 72 hours. Reset seen clears that history, those choices, and the local counters without changing your selected mode. Removing the extension removes its local storage through Safari.

Website distinction

This policy covers the Sift app and Safari extension. This public support website is separate: its host may receive ordinary request metadata, and the site uses aggregate Vercel Web Analytics and Speed Insights without ad pixels, marketing tags, fingerprinting scripts, or cookies.

Contact

Questions about this policy can be sent to amit@amitpatnaik.com. The policy will be updated here if Sift's data practices change.