Privacy

Overview

ShyWindow is a native macOS menu bar app. This page covers the app and the marketing site at www.shywindow.com.

The macOS app

Browsing happens in a sandboxed WKWebView on your Mac. Pages you open are loaded from the sites you choose; ShyWindow does not operate a proxy or browse on your behalf on our servers.

• Preferences (modes, opacity, panel size, and similar) are stored locally in UserDefaults on your Mac.
• Recent URLs are stored locally after sanitization (query and fragment stripped). Bookmarks keep the full URL you saved, also locally.
• License key and email are stored in the macOS Keychain. License checks contact Gumroad's license API to verify purchase status.
• Sparkle may check for app updates using the published appcast URL; update packages are signed and notarized.

The app does not include Google Analytics or third-party ad SDKs.

This website

The marketing site may use Vercel Analytics and Google Analytics 4 to understand traffic (page views and similar aggregate metrics). These tools may set cookies or use similar technologies as described in their own policies.

Product demos are embedded from YouTube using its privacy-enhanced mode. YouTube may receive technical information and set cookies or similar technologies when you interact with an embedded player, as described in Google's privacy policy.

Purchases are handled by Gumroad; their privacy policy applies to checkout and payment data.

Contact

Questions about privacy: use the contact options on the Gumroad product page or reply to a purchase email from Gumroad.