Privacy

Last updated: 2026-04-22

In one paragraph

viewbus does not send telemetry, does not phone home, and has no backend servers. Your Azure credentials and connection strings are used by your machine to talk to Azure directly — they never touch any infrastructure operated by viewbus (because there isn't any). The SQLite index, logs, and settings files all live under your user profile on disk.

What's on your machine

• SQLite index at %LOCALAPPDATA%\viewbus\viewbus.db — resource metadata (namespace names, queue names, etc.) discovered from Azure or from connection strings you add. Contains no message bodies and no secrets.
• Windows Credential Manager entries under service name viewbus — raw Service Bus connection strings you paste in. Never written to the SQLite index or log files.
• Settings JSON at %APPDATA%\viewbus\settings.json — your theme, hotkeys, and preferences.
• Custom themes at %APPDATA%\viewbus\themes\*.json — drop a JSON file in and it shows up in Settings on next launch.
• Log files at %LOCALAPPDATA%\viewbus\logs\ — daily-rotated plain-text diagnostics via tracing. No PII, no credentials, no message bodies. Attached only if you opt in via the in-app feedback dialog.

What leaves your machine

Only requests you trigger:

• Azure authentication (OAuth flow in your default browser; tokens go directly between Microsoft and your machine).
• Azure Resource Manager + Service Bus REST / AMQP calls (direct to the endpoints in your connection strings — the app's Content Security Policy allows only login.microsoftonline.com, management.azure.com, *.servicebus.windows.net, and the update-check host below).
• An update check on app start that reads https://viewbus.app/latest.json — a static JSON file with the current version number. No query parameters, no identifiers, no user agent beyond what the OS adds.

No third parties

No analytics SDK, no crash reporter, no A/B framework, no affiliate tracking. If a future version adds any of these, it will be opt-in with a clear prompt, and this page will list them.

Contact

Questions: support@viewbus.app
Security disclosures: security@viewbus.app