Alertman privacy policy

Effective 9 October 2026.

Alertman is an app for viewing and managing Icinga 2 monitoring servers, made by Nick Bouwhuis. This policy explains what Alertman does with your data. In short: nothing leaves your device except the requests the app sends to the Icinga servers you add.

What Alertman stores on your device

  • Server settings: the address, API user name, display name and author name for each server you add, and your app settings.
  • Passwords: kept in the device’s secure storage (the iOS Keychain, or Android’s encrypted storage backed by the Android Keystore). They are sent only to the server they belong to.
  • Trusted certificates: if you choose to trust a server’s certificate, its fingerprint is stored so the app can recognize it.
  • Background check state: if you turn on notifications, the names of problems you’ve already been told about, so you aren’t notified twice.

Removing a server deletes its stored password. Uninstalling the app deletes everything.

What Alertman sends, and to whom

Alertman connects only to the Icinga 2 servers you add, over HTTPS. Whatever it sends or receives is between your device and your server. Alertman has no servers of its own and does not send any data to the developer or to third parties.

Alertman contains no analytics, advertising or tracking, and needs no account.

Notifications

If you turn them on, notifications are created on your device by a periodic background check against your servers. Alertman does not use a push notification service.

Links from your Icinga configuration (notes and action URLs), and the Donate link, open in an in-app browser. The websites you visit that way have their own privacy policies.

Children

Alertman is a tool for IT professionals and is not directed at children.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, the new version will be published on this page with a new effective date. Questions? Get in touch.