Telemetry & privacy
Exactly what Open Free Max sends, what it never sends, and how to turn it off — pseudonymous product telemetry grouped by a random install id, with no content, no paths and no stored IP.
Open Free Max is a local-first tool: agents, transcripts, memory and usage data all live on your machine. The one thing that leaves it is pseudonymous product telemetry, and this page says precisely what that means.
What is sent
Product events grouped by a random install id — an identifier generated on your machine that is tied to the installation, not to your account. Country is derived server-side from the connection and the IP is then discarded; it is never stored.
The wording matters: this is pseudonymous, not anonymous. Events sharing an install id can be grouped together. Calling that “anonymous” would be a lie.
What is never sent
- Prompt or response content
- File paths, file names, project names
- Transcripts, memory contents, validated facts
- Your account identity — the account id was deliberately removed from the payload
- Your IP address, which is discarded after country lookup
Turning it off
The Privacy tab of the Usage panel has one switch: Send product telemetry. It is on by default and can be turned off at any time. Telemetry is best-effort and never blocks the app — if the network is down or the switch is off, nothing waits on it.
Clear outbox discards any events still queued locally, so opting out does not leave a backlog to flush later.
The rest of your data
For completeness, here is where everything else stays:
| Data | Location |
|---|---|
| Conversations | Each CLI’s own store — never OFM’s |
| Project memory | Local SQLite, one store per project |
| Usage measurements | Local usage.db |
| Mission Control rules and audit | Local files |
| MCP tokens and the Obsidian key | Local, passed to sessions by environment variable |
Exact paths: Data & file locations.
Account data
Signing in to an OFM account is separate from telemetry: it exists to manage your subscription, and it is handled by the licensing API, not by product analytics. See Account & billing.
Frequently asked
- Is my code or my prompts ever sent anywhere?
- No. Telemetry carries no content, no file paths and no project names. Your prompts, transcripts, memory and files never leave your machine.
- Can I turn telemetry off?
- Yes, in the Privacy tab of the Usage panel, at any time. It never blocks the app, and Clear outbox discards anything still queued.