Privacy Policy

The Short Version

Eclipse Notch has no account, no sign-in, and no analytics. We — Mohammad Alhasson ("we", "us"), the developer of Eclipse Notch (the "App") — do not collect, store, or receive your personal data. What the App knows about your Mac stays on your Mac.

There is no advertising in the App, no tracking, no advertising identifier, and no third-party analytics or crash-reporting service of any kind. Eclipse Notch has no server of ours to talk to, because we do not run one.

What Stays on Your Mac

Everything the App creates is stored locally:

• Your settings — which tabs are installed, island size and behaviour, theme, and every preference in Settings — in this Mac's standard preferences store.
• Notes you write in the Notes tab, in a file inside ~/Library/Application Support/Eclipse.
• World clocks, timers, the weather place you picked, and pinned Finder folders — the last as security-scoped bookmarks, which record where a folder is, not what is in it.
• The address of your Pi-hole, if you set one up. Its password is kept in your Mac's keychain, never in preferences and never in a file we write.

Files you drop on the tray are not copied anywhere by us: the App holds a reference to where each file already lives, and moving one out again moves your own file.

What Eclipse Notch Reads and Does Not Keep

Parts of the island exist to show you what your Mac is already doing. Those readings are held in memory for as long as they are on screen and are never written to a file of ours, and never transmitted:

• Clipboard history — recent text copies, so you can paste one back. It lives in memory only, is capped, and is gone the moment Eclipse Notch quits. It can be turned off entirely in Settings, and nothing is recorded while it is off.
• Notification mirroring and unread badges — read from the system through the Accessibility API to show a notification in the island and a count on a Dock icon. Nothing is stored and nothing leaves the Mac. This exists only in the direct build; see The Two Builds.
• What's playing — title, artist, and artwork from Music, Spotify, or whichever app is playing, so the island can show it and the buttons can control it.
• Battery levels — your Mac's, and those of connected Bluetooth devices.
• Today's calendar events — read through EventKit for the Calendar tab and meeting alerts, if you grant calendar access.

What the App Sends, and to Whom

The App connects to a small number of outside services. None of them receives your name, your email address, or any account of ours.

• Open-Meteo — the default weather source. It receives a coordinate to forecast for, and a place name when you search for one in Settings. No account, no key, and nothing that identifies you or your Mac. See Open-Meteo's terms and privacy notice.
• Apple Weather (WeatherKit) — the alternative weather source, if you choose it. The request goes to Apple, not to us, and is covered by the Apple Privacy Policy. Weather data is attributed to Apple Weather in the App.
• Your own Pi-hole, if you set one up — the App talks to the address you entered, on your own network, to show what it has blocked and to pause blocking when you ask. That traffic goes to your device and nowhere else; we never see it.
• RevenueCat — validates purchases and tracks whether your licence is active. It receives an anonymous identifier that RevenueCat itself generates, along with purchase and receipt information from Apple and coarse device details such as country and OS version. We never associate that identifier with a name, an email address, or any other identity, because the App has no concept of one. See the RevenueCat privacy policy.
• Apple — handles the App Store and in-app purchases. We receive no payment details at any point; we are told only whether a licence is active.

Tapping a link that opens a website in your browser is a normal visit to that site, governed by its own policy.

Permissions macOS Asks You For

Each of these is requested only when the feature that needs it is used, is refusable, and can be withdrawn afterwards in System Settings → Privacy & Security. Refusing one costs you that feature and nothing else.

• Location — a one-off fix so the weather is for where you are. Decline it and pick a place manually in Settings instead; the tab works either way.
• Calendar — today's events in the Calendar tab, and the alert before a meeting starts.
• Camera — the mirror. The picture is drawn on screen and nowhere else: nothing is recorded, saved, or sent.
• Bluetooth — asked for only when macOS has no battery level for a device that is connected, so the App can ask the device itself. If your devices all report their level, it is never asked for at all.
• Local network — reaching the Pi-hole you configured.
• Automation (Music, Spotify) — the play, pause, and skip buttons, through AppleScript.
• Accessibility — unread Dock badges and notification mirroring, in the direct build only.
• Folders you hand over — the tray and the Finder tab see only what you drop on them or pin, and nothing else on your disk.

The Two Builds

Eclipse Notch is sold in two forms: a direct download from us and a Mac App Store version. The App Store version is sandboxed, and a sandboxed app cannot read other applications through the Accessibility API or ask the system about Bluetooth peripherals the way the direct build does. So unread badges, notification mirroring, and the Devices tab are absent from that version rather than present and broken. Neither build sends any of that anywhere; the difference is only in what exists.

Children

Eclipse Notch is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect data from anyone, of any age — there is no mechanism in the App by which we could.

Keeping and Deleting Your Data

Because we hold nothing, there is nothing for us to retain or delete. You remain in control of your own copy:

• Inside the App: Settings can clear clipboard history, remove notes, unpin folders, forget the Pi-hole and its keychain entry, and reset every preference to its default.
• Quitting clears the clipboard history, which was never written down in the first place.
• Deleting the App, together with ~/Library/Application Support/Eclipse and its preferences, removes everything Eclipse Notch has stored on that Mac.

Your Rights

Under the GDPR, the UK GDPR, the CCPA, and similar laws you have rights of access, correction, deletion, and portability over personal data a company holds about you. We hold none, so there is nothing for us to disclose, correct, or erase, and nothing for us to sell — we have never sold or shared personal data, because we have never had any.

For data held by Apple, Open-Meteo, or RevenueCat in connection with your use of the App, those requests go to them under their own policies, linked above.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy from time to time. Changes will be posted on this page with an updated "Last updated" date.

Contact

Questions about this policy, or about the App: [email protected].