Privacy policy
Last updated: November 12, 2026
Desktop Pals is made to respect your privacy. In short: no account, no analytics, no tracking, and nothing about you or your Mac leaves your computer.
What stays on your Mac
Your settings, your pals, their levels and achievements, mini-game records and the pals' “memory” (how you played with them) are stored only on your Mac. You can reset the memory and progress at any time in the app.
Accessibility permission
If you allow Accessibility, Desktop Pals reads only the position and size of Dock icons, desktop icons, widgets and window tabs so pals can stand on them. It never reads their names, text, or the contents of any window. Window positions are read without Screen Recording permission. Nothing is recorded, saved or sent.
Network requests
The app connects to our website only to:
- check once a day whether a new version is available (
update.json); - check once a week whether a license key has been revoked (
revoked.json).
These requests contain no personal data, license key or identifier. Like any web request, our hosting provider can see your IP address in its standard server logs. Activation itself works offline.
Purchases
When you buy, we receive your Telegram username (or email) and payment details from you or from the payment provider, only to send your license key, provide support and meet legal and tax obligations. We never sell or share this information for marketing.
Children
Desktop Pals does not collect data from anyone, including children.