Privacy Policy

DockGroups is a macOS app made by an independent developer. The short version: the app has no accounts, collects no personal data, and everything you create in it stays on your Mac. This page describes the few network interactions that do exist, and exactly what they carry.

Data stored on your Mac

Everything DockGroups works with lives in local files on your computer:

• Your groups (names, emojis, and which apps belong to them).
• App usage statistics that power the "Most Used" group and group suggestions (which apps you launch, and which apps tend to be open in the same session).

These files are stored in the app's local Application Support folder with owner-only file permissions. They are never uploaded, synced, or transmitted anywhere, and they are deleted when you remove the app and its data.

Update checks

DockGroups uses the open-source Sparkle framework to check for and install updates. Checking for an update is a normal web request to our update server; the update itself is downloaded from GitHub. Updates are cryptographically signed and verified on your Mac.

When checking for updates, the app can include anonymous update statistics: its own version, build number, and your macOS version. That is the complete list — no personal data, no device identifiers, and IP addresses are not stored. This exists only so we know which macOS and app versions still need support. It is controlled by the "Share anonymous update statistics" toggle in Settings → Updates, and nothing is sent when it is off.

License activation (Pro)

If you purchase DockGroups Pro, activating your license sends two things to our license server:

• your license key, and
• a random machine identifier — a UUID generated on your Mac the first time the app runs. It is not derived from your hardware, serial number, or any personal information.

This is used solely to enforce the per-license activation limit. The activation record is kept while your license is active and is released when you deactivate from Settings → License.

Purchases themselves are processed by Polar, our merchant of record. Polar handles payment details and your email address (to deliver the license key) under its own privacy policy; we never see your payment information.

This website

dockgroups uses Vercel Web Analytics to count page visits. It is cookie-free and aggregated — we see visit counts and pages, not individuals. Our hosting providers (Vercel, Cloudflare, GitHub) may keep standard, short-lived server logs to operate their services.

What we don't do

• No accounts, sign-ups, or profiles.
• No advertising, no trackers, no selling or sharing of data.
• No analytics inside the app beyond the opt-out update statistics above.
• No access to your files, screen, keystrokes outside the app, or anything else macOS permissions would guard. The optional Accessibility permission, if you grant it, is used only to restore minimized windows of other apps and nothing is read or recorded through it.

The app ships with an Apple privacy manifest (PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy) declaring that it does not track you.

Children

DockGroups is a general-purpose utility and does not knowingly collect any information from anyone, including children.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with an updated effective date. Material changes will be mentioned in the release notes of the accompanying app update.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Email aleksandar.v.rajic@gmail.com.