Privacy policy
midden-offsite. Last updated 11 November 2026.
Who runs it
midden-offsite is run by Aaron Ball, for his own household. It is a private backup tool with one user, the owner of the Google account it is connected to. It is not a product or a service offered to the public.
What Google data it accesses
It asks Google for one permission only: drive.file. With that permission it can see, create, change and delete only the files that midden-offsite itself has created in the owner's own Google Drive. It cannot see, open or list any other file in the Drive. It does not ask for the owner's email, contacts, calendar, photos or any other Google data.
How it uses that data
It uses that access for one purpose: to keep a backup copy of the household's own files, to check that the copy is whole, and to bring files back from it when something at home is lost.
What it stores
It stores encrypted backup data in the owner's Google Drive. Every file is encrypted in the house before it is sent. The key stays in the house and is never sent to Google, so Google holds only scrambled data it cannot read. The sign-in permission Google issues is kept on the household's own backup computer, readable only by that computer's owner account.
Who it shares data with
No one. midden-offsite shares nothing with anyone, sells nothing, and has no ads, no analytics and no tracking of any kind. This website sets no cookies and runs no scripts.
How to stop it
The owner can remove midden-offsite's access at any time at myaccount.google.com/permissions. From that moment it can no longer read or write anything in the Drive. The backup files it made stay in the Drive until the owner deletes them.
Changes
If what midden-offsite does with Google data ever changes, this page will be updated first, with a new date at the top.