No general analytics or advertising
WindowBuddy does not include advertising, use general behavioral analytics, build a profile about you, or sell personal information. The only affiliate disclosure is the limited, consent-based referral reporting described below.
Accessibility stays on your Mac
WindowBuddy uses macOS Accessibility permission solely to identify, move, and resize windows at your request. Window titles, app activity, layouts, and keyboard shortcuts are processed locally and are not transmitted to us.
Settings stay local
Your preferences, custom shortcuts, command regions, and ignored-app list are stored on your Mac. Removing WindowBuddy does not send that information anywhere.
Purchases and license validation
Payments are processed by Stripe on Stripe’s hosted checkout. WindowBuddy’s license service receives the purchase email, Stripe transaction or subscription identifiers, license status, and a one-way hash identifying each activated Mac. It uses this information only to issue, validate, limit, recover, and revoke licenses. Stripe receives the payment and connection information described in Stripe’s privacy policy. Resend processes the purchase email address and transactional license message solely to deliver or recover the license key. WindowBuddy stores the license key and signed offline receipt in your Mac’s Keychain.
Update checks
The built-in updater checks windowbuddy.app for a signed version feed and downloads releases from GitHub. Those services may receive standard connection information, such as an IP address, as part of serving the request.
This website
The WindowBuddy website does not use general analytics or advertising pixels. If you visit through an approved affiliate link, it asks for permission before storing the referral in a first-party cookie for 30 days using last-click attribution. Declining continues without affiliate tracking. The affiliate record includes the visit time, landing page, referring site without its query string, anonymous visitor and browser-session identifiers, and any UTM campaign values. It records Checkout starts and Stripe purchase, renewal, refund, and dispute events when applicable. If you consent and then purchase through that affiliate’s link, the affiliate’s secured partner dashboard also receives the name and email entered at Stripe Checkout, purchase date and time, plan, purchase and discount amounts, refund status, and the affiliate commission. It never receives payment-card details, license keys, device identifiers, raw Stripe identifiers, or raw IP addresses. Customers who enter a promotion code without consenting through an affiliate link remain anonymous to the affiliate. Its hosting provider may retain ordinary server logs needed to operate and secure the site.
Questions?
Email contact@matthewjgl.com and we’ll be happy to help.