Privacy Policy
This policy explains what the SysOp Android application does — and does not do — with your information.
- No data collected
- No analytics
- No advertising
- Effective 1 August 2026
- Application
- SysOp — VNC Remote Desktop
- Package name
dev.svsarts.sysop- Developer
- Vl@d SVSarts (individual developer)
- Contact
- svsarts@gmail.com
- Effective date
- 1 August 2026
- Last updated
- 1 August 2026
1. Summary
SysOp is a client application for the VNC (RFB) remote desktop protocol. It runs entirely on your device and connects only to the computers whose addresses you enter yourself.
The developer does not collect, receive, store, sell or share any personal data. The app has no back-end servers, no user accounts, no analytics, no crash-reporting service and no advertising libraries. Everything the app saves stays on your device.
2. Information we do not collect
SysOp does not collect or transmit any of the following to the developer or to any third party:
- Name, e-mail address, phone number or any other contact details
- Account identifiers, advertising IDs or device identifiers
- Location data, whether precise or approximate
- Contacts, calendar, photos, messages, call logs or microphone/camera input
- Usage analytics, session statistics, behavioural or diagnostic telemetry
- The contents of your remote desktop sessions
The app contains no third-party SDK that collects data in the background.
3. Information stored on your device
To work as a remote desktop client, SysOp saves the following data locally. It never leaves your device, and it is removed when you delete the corresponding item or uninstall the app.
| Data | Purpose | Where it is stored |
|---|---|---|
| Connection profiles | So you don't have to retype a server's name, host address and port | Private app storage on the device |
| Server passwords | Optional — to authenticate to a saved server without retyping the password | Encrypted storage backed by the hardware Android Keystore |
| App preferences | Theme, on-screen keyboard layout, key size, opacity and similar settings | Private app storage on the device |
| Downloaded files | Files you explicitly download from a remote computer | The folder you select at download time |
4. Network activity
The app requests a single Android permission,
android.permission.INTERNET, and uses it exclusively to
open a TCP connection to the VNC server address you entered.
No other host is contacted: there is no update check, no license check, no telemetry endpoint and no content delivery network. What travels over that connection — screen images, keyboard and mouse input, clipboard text and any files you transfer — goes directly between your device and your server, and never through the developer.
Important security note. The VNC/RFB protocol is not encrypted, and VNC Authentication is based on DES, which is cryptographically weak by today's standards. This is a limitation of the protocol itself, common to every VNC client. On networks you do not fully trust, tunnel the connection through a VPN or SSH instead of exposing the VNC port directly.
5. Permissions
- Internet — required to reach your VNC server. This is the only permission declared in the manifest.
- File access — the app does not hold broad storage permissions. When you upload or download a file, Android's own document picker is used, which grants access to that single file or folder only, and only for that action.
6. Third parties
SysOp integrates no advertising network, no analytics provider and no social platform. The developer shares no data with third parties, because no data is collected in the first place.
If you install the app from Google Play, Google may process data such as installation and purchase records under its own terms; that processing is governed by Google's Privacy Policy and is outside the developer's control.
7. How your data is protected
- Passwords are stored with encryption keys held in the hardware-backed Android Keystore, not in plain text.
- Passwords are never written to application logs and are kept in memory only for as long as the authentication handshake needs them.
- Connection metadata and credentials are stored separately, so editing a connection never exposes or moves its password.
- App data lives in Android's private per-application sandbox, unreadable by other apps.
8. Deleting your data
You are in full control of everything the app stores:
- Delete a single connection — swipe or use the delete action in the connection list; its stored password is removed with it.
- Clear everything — open Android Settings → Apps → SysOp → Storage → Clear data.
- Remove everything permanently — uninstall the app; Android deletes its private storage and Keystore entries.
Because no data is ever sent to the developer, there is nothing held server-side to request the deletion of. If you would like written confirmation of this, write to svsarts@gmail.com.
9. Children
SysOp is a system-administration tool intended for a general audience and is not directed at children under 13. The app knowingly collects no data from anyone, including children.
10. Your rights
Privacy laws such as the GDPR and the CCPA grant rights of access, correction, deletion and portability over personal data held by a developer. As SysOp holds no personal data of yours on any server, there is nothing for the developer to disclose, correct, export or erase. All data described in section 3 is under your direct control on your own device.
11. Changes to this policy
This policy may be updated if the app gains features that change how data is handled. The revised version will be published on this page with a new "Last updated" date, and material changes will also be noted in the app's release notes on Google Play. Continuing to use the app after an update means you accept the revised policy.
12. Contact
Questions about this policy or about how the app handles data are welcome: