===== Git Winch Privacy Policy =====  
**Effective:** {{24 June 2025}}  

==== 1. Data Collection Boundaries ====  
**We never access or store:**  
  *Your repository files/code  
  *Personal Access Tokens or deploy keys  
  

==== 2. Collected Metadata ====  
^ Data Type          ^ Purpose                  ^ Storage Location       ^ Retention ^  
| File paths         | Edit conflict prevention | Coordination Server*   | Only till Git push   |  
| User notes         | Team collaboration       | Coordination Server*   | Until deletion  |  
| Account email      | Login & support          | Encrypted database     | Until deletion |  

*Hosted on Git Winch servers (Shared/Semi-Private) or your cloud (Business-Owned)

==== 3. Security Practices ====  
- **PATs/deploy keys:**  
  - Entered only in desktop app  
  - Never transmitted to our servers  

- **Metadata encryption:**  
  - Stored in protected database

==== 4. User Controls ====  

- **Revoke access:**  
  * [[btnremovegroupmember1?do=export_xhtml | remove members]] 
    

==== 5. Contact ====  
**Privacy inquiries:** admin@gitwinch.com\\
**Security reports:** admin@gitwinch.com\\
(SLA: 48h response)  

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