Privacy

Snug is made by me, Jamshid Toshpo'latov. This page explains what Snug does with your data. The short version: almost nothing leaves your Mac.

What leaves your Mac

Snug makes two kinds of network calls. It checks your license with Polar, and it checks for updates with Sparkle. That is all.

License checks

When you activate a license, Snug sends Polar:

• your license key,
• your Mac's name, so you can tell your Macs apart in Polar's customer portal,
• an anonymous device ID: a hash of your Mac's hardware ID, never the hardware ID itself,
• Snug's version number.

Later checks send the license key, the activation ID Polar gave back, and the same anonymous device ID. Snug checks now and then, and keeps working offline for up to 30 days.

Updates

Sparkle downloads the list of versions from snugformac.app and, if you agree, the new version. It does not send any information about your Mac.

Privacy Guard and your camera

Privacy Guard is off by default. If you turn it on, macOS asks you for camera permission. Apple's Vision framework checks each frame in memory and keeps only a count of faces. A tiny 40 by 30 brightness grid is used to detect motion, and it is overwritten every frame. No image or video is saved to disk, and nothing from the camera is sent anywhere. You can turn Privacy Guard off in Settings, or remove camera access in System Settings.

Accessibility access

Snug asks for Accessibility access because that is how macOS lets an app move and resize other apps' windows. Snug never sees what's inside them.

Buying Snug

Payments go through Polar, which handles your payment details and sends your receipt. Snug never sees your card. Polar's own policy is at polar.sh/legal/privacy.

This website

snugformac.app counts visits with Visitors, which sets no cookies. The site itself sets no cookies either. The checkout window is Polar's, and Polar and its payment provider may set their own cookies while it is open.

Contact

Questions about your data? Email hey@itsjamik.com.