Last updated · 14 September 2026

Privacy policy

LitterBox is a local virtual-machine app made by Mark Shenouda. You don't need a LitterBox account, and the app does not include advertising, tracking, or a third-party analytics SDK.

Your Boxes stay on your Mac

LitterBox stores Box settings, virtual disks, saved clean states, and downloaded operating-system images in its app container on your Mac. LitterBox does not upload these files to a developer-operated service. A disk image can contain personal information you put inside the guest, including files and credentials.

Folders you choose to share

LitterBox shares no host folders with a guest by default. You can choose folders to share with a macOS guest. LitterBox saves your selection using a macOS security-scoped bookmark so it can open those folders when you launch the app again. Software inside the guest may read and modify the files in a folder you share with read-write access.

Operating-system downloads

The app connects to Apple to find and download supported macOS restore images, and to Canonical's release servers for Ubuntu installation media and checksums. Those services receive information needed to answer a network request, such as your IP address and the requested resource. Their policies explain how they handle this information: Apple privacy and Canonical data privacy.

What happens inside a guest

Guest operating systems and any software you install have their own privacy practices. When guest networking is enabled, they may connect to the internet, your host, or reachable local-network services. LitterBox does not connect to an AI provider. If you install an AI tool inside a guest, its provider handles information you send under its own terms.

Choosing Disabled for a Box's network removes its virtual network device. LitterBox can still download installation media on your Mac while the guest's network is disabled.

This website

This site does not add advertising scripts, analytics scripts, tracking cookies, forms, or browser storage. Cloudflare Pages hosts this site. Cloudflare processes request information, such as IP addresses, requested URLs, and browser or network metadata, to deliver and protect it. See Cloudflare's privacy policy for its practices.

Support and diagnostics

If you contact Mark Shenouda, he uses the information you send to answer your request and investigate reported issues. Please do not send passwords, API keys, private virtual disks, or other secrets. Support correspondence is kept only as long as needed for support or applicable legal obligations.

LitterBox has no independent crash-reporting service. Apple may process App Store and system diagnostics according to your Apple settings and its privacy policy.

Your choices

You control what you store in a Box, which guest software you run, whether the guest has a network device, and which host folders you share. Toss Box deletes its local files. You can manage downloaded installation images separately in Images. Back up important work before deleting a Box or restoring its clean state. Your backup tools control any copies in your backups.

For questions or requests concerning information you sent to the developer, use the support page. Depending on your location, you may have rights to request access, correction, or deletion of personal information, or to raise a concern with a data-protection authority.

Changes

Mark Shenouda will update this page if LitterBox's data practices change. The date above identifies the latest revision.