New File — Privacy

Last updated 2026-10-25.

New File runs on your Mac and creates files where you ask. The app has no accounts, no analytics and no tracking. This page also covers the website, newfilemac.com.

What leaves your Mac. Once a day the app asks newfilemac.com for the number of the latest version, so it can tell you about an update; the request carries nothing about you beyond what any web request does (your IP address, seen by Cloudflare), and you can turn it off under Settings › General › Updates. That is the only network traffic the app makes: this version has no trial and no license check. Once New File is on sale, licensing will go through the SMLTLS license server, and this page will say what that sends before a version that does is released.

What stays on your Mac. Your templates and settings (in the app's group container) and the disk access you granted (a security-scoped bookmark). None of it is sent to us.

Permissions. New File asks macOS for access to your disk (to create files in any folder), optionally for Accessibility (only if you turn on "Start renaming it right away") and for permission to ask Finder which folder is open (only for the keyboard shortcut). You can withdraw each of these in System Settings.

The website. newfilemac.com is served through Cloudflare, which handles the connection and sees the usual connection data, such as your IP address, to deliver the pages and block abuse. The download itself comes from dl.smltls.com, SMLTLS's download server, also served through Cloudflare.

Visitor statistics. The site counts visits with Umami, which runs on SMLTLS's own server (stats.smltls.com) in the United Kingdom, a country the EU recognises as protecting personal data adequately; nothing goes to Google or another analytics company. It sets no cookies and does not store your IP address. For each visit it keeps the pages you open, the site and the campaign tags of the link that brought you here, your browser, operating system, type of device, screen size and language, and the country, region and city that Cloudflare derives from your IP address. It also counts a few clicks: downloads, the support address and page, links to other sites, and the questions you open in the FAQ. None of this carries your name or email address. The statistics are deleted after two years.

Recordings, only if you say yes. The banner asks whether we may record your visit. If you say yes, the site also records how you use its pages: the pointer, clicks, scrolling and the pages you open, with all text on the page and everything you type hidden. We watch these recordings and combine them into heatmaps to find where the site is unclear. Recordings and the clicks behind the heatmaps are deleted from the same server after 30 days; the server's encrypted backups, kept in the EU, hold them for up to six months longer. Until you say yes nothing is recorded, and you can change your choice at any time through "Recording choice" at the bottom of every page; saying no stops a recording straight away. Your display settings and your recording choice are kept in your browser only.

What we know about you. Nothing beyond the statistics and recordings above, unless you write to us: then we have your email address and your message, and use them only to answer you. Write to the address below to ask what we hold about you or to have it removed.

Contact. SMLTLS, KVK 42195151, btw-id NL005573168B67, [email protected]