Your files stay yours.
Here is the long version.

The app

Layland measures how much space your files take. To do that it reads each file's name, size, type and modification date from the file system, and nothing else. It never opens your files to scan them, and there is no server, account or analytics for anything to go to.

• Scans stay on your Mac. A scan lives in memory while the window is open. It's written to disk only if you save it as a .layland file, in the place you choose, and that file never leaves the Mac unless you send it somewhere yourself.
• Full Disk Access is your choice. Without it, Layland measures only what macOS lets it read, and macOS asks you before it reads Desktop, Documents, Downloads, removable drives or network volumes. With it, the totals match the Finder. Either way, it reads the same things: names, sizes and dates.
• Quick Look and the Trash are macOS's own. Pressing space shows a file with the system's Quick Look, on your Mac. Move to Trash moves the file to your Trash, where you can put it back; Layland never deletes anything permanently.
• No account and no telemetry. No sign-in, no analytics, no crash reporting, no usage counts. The two requests below are the whole of what the app ever sends.

The two requests it makes

• The license key, if you enter one. Entering a key sends that key and the product's ID to Gumroad, so Gumroad can say whether the purchase stands. The app asks the same question again about once a month. That's all it sends: no email, no machine name, nothing about your files. The free version, used without a key, sends nothing to Gumroad at all.
• Checking for updates, only if you say yes. On its second launch the app asks whether it may check for updates, and the answer stays a menu setting. If you agree, it fetches one small file from this site once a day. The request carries the app's version and nothing else. Updates are verified against my signing key and Apple's notarization before they install.

Buying it

Layland is sold through Gumroad, who are the merchant of record. That means Gumroad, not this site, takes your payment details, handles sales tax and VAT, and issues receipts and refunds, under their privacy policy. Your card number never reaches anything I run, because there is nothing of mine for it to reach. Gumroad has your email address, because that's where the receipt and the license key go.

This website

The site is static, hosted on Netlify. It sets no cookies and runs no analytics, which is why there is no consent banner. Netlify keeps ordinary server logs, as any web host does.

The one third-party script is Gumroad's checkout, loaded on every page, since each has a buy button in its header, so that buying doesn't have to leave the page. It runs on the page whether or not you click, which is the trade for the checkout working; the buy buttons are ordinary links and still work if you block it. Each carries a short tag naming the button it was clicked from, so a sale can be attributed to a place on the page. It records which button, not who.

Questions

Can you see what's on my disk? No, and there is no mechanism by which I could. Scans never leave your Mac, and the app has no channel back to me. This isn't a promise about what's done with your data; it's that there is no data.

Do you sell or share anything? There is nothing to sell. No advertising, no trackers and no data broker anywhere in the chain.

How do I delete my data? The app holds nothing to delete: closing a scan clears it from memory, and deleting a saved .layland file removes it. Anything connected to your purchase lives with Gumroad, and their support can act on it.

Can I check any of this? Yes. The source is published, network code included, so you can verify it rather than believe it.

Who is responsible

The data controller is CSS LABS, 95 rue Boileau, 75016 Paris, France. Questions about privacy are welcome as an issue on GitHub. There isn't much to control: the app collects nothing, and this site doesn't count visits.

Last updated 26 September 2026.