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Privacy

box collects nothing about you. Here is everything it does over the network.

No account, no telemetry, no analytics.
box does not identify you, does not count you and does not send anything about how you use it. Optersoft receives nothing from the program.
Two kinds of download, both to create a machine.
The list of images comes from Microsoft's WSL index (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoft/WSL/master/distributions/DistributionInfo.json). The image itself comes from the distribution's own server: releases.ubuntu.com, download.fedoraproject.org, salsa.debian.org or github.com for AlmaLinux. Those servers see an ordinary download from your address, under their own privacy policies.
Everything else stays on your computer.
Machines, their disks and box's settings live under %APPDATA%\box. If ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub exists, box copies that public key into the machines it creates, and nowhere else.
Removing it.
box delete <name> removes a machine and its disk. Uninstalling box leaves the machines you made, because they are yours: delete them first if you want them gone.

Questions: admin@optersoft.com. Optersoft, S.L., Spain.