Last updated: 16 August 2026
The short version
ipnx has no accounts, no analytics, no telemetry, no crash reporting and no advertising. It does not contact any server belonging to this project, because there is no such server. Nothing you type into the emulated machine, and nothing about how you use the app, is transmitted anywhere or seen by anyone.
What is stored, and where
Everything ipnx keeps lives on your Mac, in your own account, and is removed when you delete the app and its support folder:
- The emulated machine's disk —
~/Library/Application Support/ipnx/v8/v8.disk. Its contents are whatever you do inside the emulated Unix: files you create, commands you run, mail you send to yourself. It is an ordinary file and you can copy, export or delete it. - A snapshot of the running machine —
state.sav, written when you quit so the session can resume where it stopped. - Terminal contents — what was last on each screen, so a resumed session looks like the one you left.
- Your settings — screen size, phosphor colour, scaling and similar, in the standard macOS preferences for the app.
- A bookmark to any folder you choose to share, so the choice survives a relaunch. The bookmark records which folder; the folder's contents are not copied anywhere.
The network, stated honestly
This is the part a boilerplate policy would skip, and it is the part most worth being straight about. ipnx contains a complete 1985 TCP/IP implementation, running inside the emulated machine, and the app gives it a way out to the real Internet through a user-mode network translator. That means:
- The app itself never initiates a network connection. It has no update check, no beacon, no first-run ping.
- The emulated machine can, if you tell it to. If you run a command in Eighth Edition that resolves a name or opens a connection, that traffic leaves your Mac exactly as any other program's would, to whoever you directed it at. It is your traffic, under your control, and this project neither sees nor records it.
- Name lookups follow your Mac. The emulated machine asks the network translator, which asks whatever resolver macOS is already using.
- You can switch the card off. Settings → Machine → Ethernet card removes the network hardware from the emulated computer entirely, and it then boots as a machine with no networking at all.
Folders you share
ipnx can mount a folder of your choosing inside the emulated machine, at/n/macos, and your home folder at /n/home. This is served in-process over the local loopback interface — it never leaves your Mac and is not reachable from another computer. The emulated machine gets read-only access unless you explicitly allow writing.
Choose deliberately. A folder you share is a folder the emulated Unix can read, and a 1985 system has 1985 ideas about file names and permissions.
Children
ipnx is not directed at children, collects nothing from anyone, and contains no user-generated content, purchases or communication features.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date above changes with it and the previous wording remains in the repository's history — there is no version of it you cannot go back and read.
Contact
Questions about this policy, or about anything the app does: chris.tham@hellotham.com. See also support.