Effective date: July 2026
This privacy policy describes how Rock River Research, LLC (“we,” “us,” or “our”) handles information in connection with our software products — including RockWiFi™ Pro, RockWiFi™ Essentials, RockTerm™, and any future products — and our website at rockriverresearch.com.
Information We Collect
Our software does not collect personal data. We do not use telemetry, usage analytics, or tracking of any kind. Our products do not phone home, transmit diagnostics, or gather behavioral data.
Network Diagnostic Activity
RockWiFi Pro and RockWiFi Essentials perform standard network diagnostic checks to measure and analyze your network environment. This includes DNS lookups, reachability tests to public resolvers and hosts you specify, latency measurements, and Wi-Fi scanning via the Windows WLAN API. These checks run locally and are used solely to provide you with diagnostic results. Your Wi-Fi scan data, survey results, and diagnostic findings are not uploaded to Rock River Research or any third party.
AI Features
RockTerm includes optional AI integration features that, when explicitly initiated by the user, may send terminal context to a third-party AI provider (Anthropic Claude or OpenAI, depending on which provider you configured) to generate responses. No data is sent to any external service unless you explicitly invoke the AI assistant. You control which provider you use, and whether AI features are used at all.
Products that do not include AI features (currently RockWiFi Pro and RockWiFi Essentials) do not send any data to AI providers.
Microsoft Store
Our products are distributed through the Microsoft Store. Purchases, licensing, and account management are handled entirely by Microsoft. Microsoft collects payment information, account details, and other data in accordance with their own privacy policy. Rock River Research does not receive or store your payment details, Microsoft account information, or billing data.
Data Storage
All user data is stored locally on your machine by default. This includes application settings, Wi-Fi survey projects, heatmap data, diagnostic results, connection profiles, session history, credential vault files, and any other configuration or output generated by the product. Nothing is transmitted to Rock River Research servers. We do not operate servers that receive, store, or process your data.
If you choose to place your data directory inside a cloud-synchronized folder (such as OneDrive, Dropbox, Google Drive, or similar services), that is your decision and your responsibility. Doing so may expose your stored data to the cloud provider and any devices linked to your sync account. Our local-data-only design is a core feature of every product; storing data in a cloud-synced location is a voluntary override of that design. We are not responsible for any data exposure, synchronization conflicts, or unauthorized access resulting from user-chosen storage locations.
Third-Party Services
When you use RockTerm’s AI features, the data you send to the AI assistant is transmitted directly from your machine to the third-party AI provider you selected — either Anthropic (api.anthropic.com) or OpenAI (api.openai.com). Requests are never proxied through any Rock River Research server. That data is governed by the selected provider’s own privacy policy and terms of service. Rock River Research does not control how the AI provider processes your data.
You can disable AI features entirely by leaving the provider unconfigured in RockTerm’s settings. When AI features are not configured, no data is sent to any third-party service.
Products without AI features do not communicate with any third-party services beyond the standard network diagnostic checks described above.
Product-Specific Privacy Policies
Individual products may have additional privacy documentation addressing product-specific data handling:
Where a product-specific policy exists, it supplements this company-wide policy. In the event of a conflict, the product-specific policy governs for that product.
Children’s Privacy
Our products are not designed for or directed at children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect information from children under 13.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this privacy policy from time to time. Changes will be posted on this page with an updated effective date. We encourage you to review this policy periodically.
Contact
If you have questions about this privacy policy, contact us at info@rockriverresearch.com.