Data and privacy
Privacy Policy
PiMonitor Diagnostics is a personal, self-hosted Raspberry Pi monitoring utility. This page explains the limited Google Drive access used to store diagnostic exports and describes the public informational website.
1. What the application does
PiMonitor collects local health information about a Raspberry Pi and selected self-hosted services. Its Diagnostics Bridge can create field-allowlisted JSON reports and periodically upload these reports into a dedicated folder in a Google Drive account chosen by the owner.
2. Google account access
The application requests the Google Drive https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.file OAuth scope. This scope permits the application to create and manage Drive files it creates or that the user explicitly makes available to it. It does not request broad access to list or read all unrelated Drive files.
3. Data written to Google Drive
Uploaded diagnostic exports may include Raspberry Pi resource statistics, project and service names, service health states, monitored sensor availability, last-seen times, error categories, and incident/recovery summaries. These reports are intended to contain only predefined, non-secret diagnostic fields.
They are not intended to include raw journal logs, account passwords, OAuth tokens, API keys, personal files, photographs, health measurements, or other unrelated Drive documents. Diagnostic exports are checked against field allowlists before publishing.
4. Purpose and handling
Google Drive diagnostic files are used solely to help the owner monitor and troubleshoot their own system. The publisher does not sell user data, use it for advertising, or provide a public diagnostic dashboard. Files remain in the owner's chosen Drive account until the owner removes them. The owner controls access, authorization and deletion.
The owner may separately authorize an AI assistant or other application to access the dedicated Google Drive account for troubleshooting. Such a separate connection is managed independently and is not a permission granted to this website.
5. Public website
This informational website is a static site hosted by GitHub Pages. It does not include sign-in forms, analytics scripts, tracking pixels, advertising code, or a browser-based data upload. GitHub, as the hosting provider, may process ordinary server and security logs under its own policies.
6. Retention and deletion
Local monitoring history is retained according to the owner's PiMonitor configuration. Exported Drive reports are updated in place by the owner's publisher; uploaded files can be removed through Google Drive. The owner may revoke the application's Google authorization through their Google Account settings and can delete the dedicated diagnostic folder at any time.
7. Changes and contact
Any material changes to how Google data is accessed or used will be reflected on this page. For questions about the application, use the support contact supplied on the application's Google OAuth consent screen.