Privacy Policy

What we collect

Nothing. Hammock has no analytics, no usage tracking, no crash reporting that leaves your Mac, and no identifiers of any kind. There is no sign-up, no profile, and no server that knows you exist.

What stays on your Mac

Everything Hammock remembers lives locally on your machine and never leaves it:

• Settings are stored in standard macOS preferences.
• Clipboard history, snippets, and shelved files are kept as ordinary files in your Application Support folder — you can delete them at any time.
• Your license and trial status are stored in the login Keychain and preferences.
• OCR and the color picker run entirely on-device with Apple’s Vision framework. Captured images and recognized text are never uploaded.
• The diagnostics log, if you switch it on in Settings → General to help us chase a bug, is a plain text file in your Logs folder. It never leaves your Mac on its own — you decide whether to send it — and it names files, apps and windows you used, so it stays off unless you turn it on. Crashes are recorded there too.

Network connections

Hammock makes three kinds of outbound connection, and none of them carries your files, your content, or an account identity:

• Update checks — Hammock asks our update server whether a newer version exists (via Sparkle). This is a standard version query.
• License activation — when you enter a license key, Hammock asks our license endpoint to confirm it is valid and to register the Mac against your three-machine limit.
• Trial check — on a fresh install, Hammock asks the same endpoint when this machine was first seen, so the 5-day trial can’t be restarted by wiping local state.

The last two send a one-way SHA-256 hash of your Mac’s hardware UUID. The raw identifier never leaves your machine, and the hash cannot be reversed back into it or tied to anything else about you. Nothing else about your Mac, your files or your usage is ever sent.

Permissions

macOS permissions are requested only for the specific feature you turn on, and only when you turn it on. Accessibility powers window snapping, app switching, clipboard and snippets; Screen Recording powers on-device OCR; Automation powers the Shelf’s Finder stash. Awake, Breaks, the notch HUD and the color picker require no permissions at all; Focus dims with none either, and uses Accessibility only — when you have granted it — to tell which window you are working in and to notice windows opening or closing. You can revoke any of these in System Settings at any time.

Payments and the two third parties

Using Hammock involves nobody but you. Buying it involves exactly two companies, and neither one is given anything beyond what the sale needs:

• Polar is our merchant of record. Polar takes the payment and your email address, and sends you the license key and the receipt. We never see or store your card details — Polar handles them under its own privacy policy. What reaches us is your license key, your order, and the email address to support it with.
• Cloudflare serves this website and the license endpoint, so it processes the ordinary connection data any web host sees (such as your IP address) in order to deliver the page and answer the request.

This website

The site sets no cookies and runs no analytics — no tracking pixels, no third-party scripts, no fonts or icons loaded from anyone else’s server. The only thing it stores in your browser is your light/dusk theme choice, in localStorage, so the page doesn’t flash the wrong colors next time. Clearing your browser data removes it.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, we’ll update the date above and note significant changes in the changelog. Because Hammock collects nothing, changes will almost always be clarifications rather than new data practices.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Write to support@gethammock.app.