Your files never leave your machine
Kinetex is a desktop app. The data you compare, convert, and load is read and processed on your own computer — your files are never uploaded. The only values that ever leave your machine are the small samples an AI action sends, and only if you turn AI on.
Looking for our formal legal policy? See the Privacy Policy.
The short version
- Your files never leave your machine. They are read and processed on your computer and are never uploaded.
- The app reaches the internet for a handful of specific things — app updates, licensing, usage statistics, optional AI, and crash reports — listed in full below.
- You can turn almost all of it off, and you can verify every bit of it yourself with a standard network tool. We’ll walk your IT team through exactly how.
What Kinetex sends — the complete list
| What | When | What’s in it |
|---|---|---|
| App updates | On startup, to check for and download new versions | Your app version — no personal data |
| Licensing (Pro) | When you activate or check a license | Your license key and plan — no file data |
| Usage statistics | In the free version (always on — it helps us improve the product). Pro turns this off entirely. | Anonymous product usage — which features you open, counts, and timings. For your data specifically: column names, row counts, and value lengths — never the actual values. |
| AI features | Only when you enable AI and run an AI action | The data you point the AI at. Off by default. You choose the provider (including a fully local option), and sending personal or identifying data to AI is a separate setting that’s off by default. |
| Crash reports | When the app hits an error | Technical diagnostics — the error, app version, your operating system, and a random installation ID — so we can fix bugs. Not the contents of your data files. |
| Email address | Only if you enable Kinetex Private AI (our hosted AI option) | Your email, to set up and manage that hosted service. We don’t ask for it otherwise, and we don’t sell or share it. |
What Kinetex never sends
Your files. The files you compare, convert, or load are processed locally and are never uploaded. With AI off, no cell value leaves your machine. With AI on, an AI action sends a small sample of values, as described in the table above. (Usage statistics describe the shape of your data — names, counts, lengths — never the values.)
In Pro, with AI turned off, the only things Kinetex contacts the internet for are update checks and license validation — nothing derived from your data goes anywhere. (The free version additionally shares the anonymous usage statistics described above.)
When you connect your own systems
If you connect Kinetex to your own Workday tenant, Oracle, or Snowflake (a Pro feature), data flows directly between your computer and your systems, using your credentials. It does not pass through Kinetex. Those connections go where you tell them to — nowhere else.
Don’t take our word for it — verify it
Because Kinetex is a desktop app, you (or your IT/security team) can watch every connection it makes with a standard tool like mitmproxy or Fiddler, and confirm this page is accurate — including that your files never leave the machine. We’re happy to provide a short, step-by-step guide and the full list of exact endpoints the app contacts. Just ask.
Transparency is the point: for a tool built to keep your Workday data local and private, you should be able to prove it, not just trust it.
Questions
Email us at privacy@kinetex.ai and we’ll answer specifics — or send your security team the verification guide so they can check for themselves.