Blanc

privacy

Privacy Policy

Last updated: July 9, 2026

The short version. Blanc is built to collect as little as possible. Your browsing history, downloads, and favorites stay on your device — we never receive them. The installed app sends one anonymous usage ping you can switch off, and nothing else leaves your device unless you opt in. This website uses analytics only if you allow it.

Who this covers

This policy explains how Blanc — the desktop web browser for macOS, Windows, and Linux — and this website (blancbrowser.com) handle your information. Blanc is made by Bananify, an independent software studio based in Rochester, New York.

A mobile version of Blanc is in development. It hasn't been released, so it isn't covered here yet — we'll update this policy when it ships.

Questions about anything below? Email us at [email protected].

What stays on your device

Almost everything Blanc knows about your browsing lives only on your computer, in the app's local data folder, and is never sent to us:

Private tabs go a step further: pages you open in a private tab are never written to history at all.

Because this data is local, you're the one in control of it — Blanc's history, downloads, and favorites screens let you remove items, and uninstalling Blanc removes its data folder.

What Blanc sends — and only when

There are exactly three things Blanc can send off your device. One is a small anonymous ping that's on by default and easy to turn off. The other two happen only if you choose them.

Anonymous usage ping

So we can gauge roughly how many people use Blanc, the installed app sends a small ping when it launches. It's on by default, and you can turn it off any time in Settings, under "Help improve Blanc."

Each ping contains only:

That's the entire payload. It carries no browsing data, no personal details, no account, no name, and no precise location. The install ID isn't tied to any identity; it's kept in its own small file on your device and is cleared when you remove the app's data. We use these pings only in aggregate — counts like "launches this week" — and those totals may be reflected in Google Analytics. Development builds send no pings at all.

Profile Sync (optional, off by default)

If you turn on Profile Sync in Settings, Blanc can keep your favorites and settings in step across your own devices. It stays off until you set it up with a sync name and passphrase.

Sync is end-to-end encrypted. The encryption key is derived from your passphrase on your device, and only encrypted data — which we cannot read, index, or decrypt — is stored on our server. Your passphrase never leaves your device, and we never store it. That also means that if you lose your passphrase, we can't recover your data, because we never had access to it.

Sync deliberately covers only favorites and settings. It does not sync your history, downloads, permissions, cookies or site data, your supporter status, your app-icon choice, or your usage-ping setting.

Supporter purchase (optional)

Blanc is free. If you choose to become a supporter, that one-time purchase is handled by our payment provider, Polar, which acts as the merchant of record. Polar processes your payment and email address under their privacy policy. Blanc receives only a confirmation that you're a supporter and stores a small local flag to unlock the extra app-icon colorways. We never see your full payment details.

Browsing the web with Blanc

Blanc is a web browser, so when you visit a site, Blanc connects you to it directly — that site and its servers see your requests just as they would in any browser. We don't sit between you and the web, and we don't log or monitor the pages you visit.

Blanc's built-in ad and tracker blocking reduces how much third parties can follow you around the web, but no blocker catches everything, so it's best thought of as a strong default rather than a guarantee.

Aside from the sites you choose to visit, Blanc itself makes a few ordinary network requests:

This website (blancbrowser.com)

The marketing site is intentionally light:

We run no advertising networks and no cross-site trackers here, and we don't sell your data.

Children

Blanc isn't directed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect personal information from them.

Your choices and rights

You're in control of the little data involved:

If you're in the European Union, the United Kingdom, California, or a similar place, you have rights over your personal data, including the right to access or delete it. We don't sell personal data. Because we hold so little — an anonymous install ping and, only if you enable sync, encrypted data we can't read — there's usually very little to act on, but you're welcome to email us at [email protected] with any request.

Keeping data, and keeping it safe

Usage pings are kept only in aggregate. Synced data stays on our server as encrypted blobs until you turn sync off or delete it. We take reasonable steps to protect the information we handle. One honest note: the data Blanc stores on your own device is kept in ordinary files, so the security of that data depends on your device's own protections.

Changes to this policy

If we change this policy, we'll update the date at the top and call out anything significant.

Contact

Bananify — [email protected]