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privacy

this privacy policy applies to Rename.

what data is collected?

none. Rename has no account, no sync, no analytics, no crash reporting and no advertising. nothing about you or your files is sent anywhere.

which connections does the app make?

only the metadata lookups you trigger. when you press analyse, the app asks the source that fits the media type: TheMovieDB, TheTVDB, OMDb or TVmaze for films and series, MusicBrainz and the Cover Art Archive for music, Open Library and Google Books for books, and, if you turned it on, OpenSubtitles for subtitles. documents are never looked up online at all. those requests contain what was read from the file name or the tags, such as title, season and episode, artist and album, or author and isbn, and for subtitles a hash calculated from the file. never the file itself, never its path, never a list of your library.

third parties

those services are operated by others and have their own terms and privacy policies. your ip address reaches them, as with any web request. api keys are only needed for TheMovieDB, TheTVDB, OMDb and OpenSubtitles; music, books, documents and series over TVmaze work without one. a media type you do not use is never asked about, and with subtitles off and no keys entered nothing leaves the machine beyond the keyless sources you let it query.

what stays on your machine?

api keys, presets, your own rules, batch jobs and the history of past runs are stored in a settings file in your user profile. the history contains the file paths of what was renamed, because that is what allows undo. everything stays local and can be cleared in the app.

your files

the app reads a file far enough to identify it: the container header for resolution and codecs, the tags of a music file, the metadata of a book or an office document, and, when name and metadata give nothing away, the text of a docx, odt or pdf. all of that reading happens on your machine, none of it is sent anywhere. files are renamed or moved exactly where you tell them to go, tags are only written back when you ask for it, a dry run shows the entire plan first, and any run can be undone.

changes

if a future version processes data differently, this page will be updated before it does.

contact

questions about privacy? [email protected]

last updated: september 2026