---
title: "Legal documents and your consent choices"
url: https://storagestudio.us/wiki/legal-documents-and-consent
category: "Settings"
tags: ["legal", "privacy", "settings", "consent"]
summary: "You accept the Terms of Service, Privacy Policy and Disclaimer when you first open Storage Studio. Settings → Consent & Legal shows your acceptance record, lets you reread or save each document, and lets you withdraw consent, which stops all background activity."
updated: 2026-10-01T05:37:25.000Z
---

# Legal documents and your consent choices

You accept the Terms of Service, Privacy Policy and Disclaimer when you first open Storage Studio. Settings → Consent & Legal shows your acceptance record, lets you reread or save each document, and lets you withdraw consent, which stops all background activity.

Before Storage Studio does anything, you accept its **Terms of Service**, **Privacy Policy** and **Disclaimer**. **Settings…** → **Consent & Legal** keeps a record of that acceptance, lets you read the documents again at any time, and lets you withdraw your consent.

## Accepting the terms

The first time you open Storage Studio — and again whenever one of the documents changes — you see **Welcome to Storage Studio**. Each document has its own tab, and you can **Open document in browser** or **Save a copy…** before deciding. To continue, tick both:

- **I have read and accept the Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and Disclaimer.**
- **I understand Storage Studio is not a backup tool, and that I am responsible for maintaining independent backups of any data I value.**

Then click **Continue**. **Decline & Quit** closes the app; it removes nothing, and you can simply uninstall. When a document has changed since you last accepted, the screen names it: **Updated since your last acceptance**. Storage Studio doesn't start its background work until you've accepted.

## The Consent & Legal page

- **Your acceptance** — **Accepted by**, **Accepted on**, **Device** and **Language**.
- **Documents** — each of the three, with the version you accepted. **Read** opens it inside the app; **Open in browser** and **Save a copy…** do what they say. **Updated since acceptance** marks a document that has changed.
- **Diagnostic logs** — a summary of whether you're sharing logs with support. You manage that in Settings → Notifications; see [Sharing diagnostic logs with support](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/sharing-diagnostic-logs).
- **Withdraw consent** — see below.

In the Advanced popover, **More** → **Legal** also opens the **Terms of Service**, **Privacy Policy**, **Disclaimer**, **Security Policy** and **Third-party notices**.

## Withdrawing consent

```mermaid
%% caption: What happens when you withdraw consent
flowchart TD
  A[Click Withdraw consent] --> B{Confirm?}
  B -->|Keep consent| C[Nothing changes]
  B -->|Withdraw and stop| D[All background activity stops]
  D --> E[Storage Studio returns to the acceptance screen]
  E --> F{Accept again?}
  F -->|Yes| G[Everything starts again]
  F -->|No| H[Decline and Quit, or uninstall]
```

*Flowchart — What happens when you withdraw consent. Outline:*

- Click Withdraw consent
  - leads to Confirm?
- Confirm?
  - Keep consent: leads to Nothing changes
  - Withdraw and stop: leads to All background activity stops
- All background activity stops
  - leads to Storage Studio returns to the acceptance screen
- Storage Studio returns to the acceptance screen
  - leads to Accept again?
- Accept again?
  - Yes: leads to Everything starts again
  - No: leads to Decline and Quit, or uninstall

**Withdraw consent** stops all background activity and returns Storage Studio to the acceptance screen. Storage Studio asks first — **Keep consent** or **Withdraw & stop**. Nothing is deleted or uninstalled: your settings, and everything you've moved, stay as they are. You can accept again, or uninstall separately — see [Uninstalling Storage Studio](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/uninstalling-storage-studio).

## Your other choices

Some things are optional and have their own switches:

- Sharing diagnostic logs with support — [off unless you turn it on](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/sharing-diagnostic-logs).
- Letting an AI assistant on this Mac read your storage status — [Settings → Connections](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/ai-access).
- macOS notifications — [The Learning Center and notifications](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/learning-center-and-notifications).

For what Storage Studio sends and when, see [What leaves your Mac, and when](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/what-leaves-your-mac) and [Privacy: what stays on your Mac](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/privacy-overview).

## What links here

- [Cookies and the download link](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/cookies-and-the-download-link)
- [Privacy: what stays on your Mac](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/privacy-overview)
- [Sharing diagnostic logs with support](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/sharing-diagnostic-logs)
- [The Preferences window](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/preferences-window)
- [What leaves your Mac, and when](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/what-leaves-your-mac)
- [Your first launch, step by step](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/your-first-launch)