Privacy policy

The short version

CozyBar is a fully client-side app, it doesn't send any of your data to the internet. In fact, we don't even have a server to send it to.

No accounts, no analytics, no telemetry, no “anonymous usage data”. CozyBar is a taskbar. Its whole job is helping you find your windows, and it doesn't need to phone home to do that. The only time it ever goes online is to check your license, once you've bought it.

During your free trial

We collect nothing. Really.

• No email address. The trial doesn't ask for one.
• No credit card.
• No analytics, crash reports or tracking of what you click.

If you buy CozyBar

Payments are handled by our partner, Polar. We never see your card.

Polar (Polar Software, Inc.) is our online reseller, also known as the merchant of record. That means Polar is the seller you see at checkout and on your receipt. It takes the payment, works out any sales tax or VAT, emails your receipt and license key, and looks after refunds. Card details go straight to Polar and its payment processor, Stripe. They never reach us.

To do that, Polar collects your email address, your name, your country and your payment details. How it handles them is set out in Polar's privacy policy.

We'll be upfront about one thing: as the makers of CozyBar, we can see your name, email address, country and order in Polar's dashboard. We only use them to look after your purchase, for example resending a lost license key or sorting out a refund. We won't send you marketing emails, and we'll never sell or share your details.

What the app sends, and when

When you activate CozyBar, it sends your license key to Polar along with a label for your Mac, so you can tell your Macs apart if you use CozyBar on more than one. The label is just your Mac's model code (like “Mac14,2”) and a random code CozyBar makes up. It's never your Mac's name or serial number.

After that, about once a week when you're online, CozyBar checks with Polar that your license is still valid. Nothing about your windows, apps or anything else you do is ever sent. If you're offline, CozyBar keeps working just the same, for as long as you like.

What stays on your Mac

To do its job, CozyBar has to know about your open windows. That means their titles, their previews and which apps you use. Your Start menu pins, your settings and the Task Manager's CPU, memory, disk and network graphs are on that list too.

All of it is worked out on your Mac and kept on your Mac. None of it is sent to us or to anyone else.

About those permissions

When you first open CozyBar, macOS will ask you to give it a couple of permissions. That's how it can see your windows and put them in the bar. It uses them for exactly that and nothing else.

Why you can trust us on this

CozyBar is made by one person at a small independent studio, not a data company. You buy the app, and that's the whole business. You're the customer, not the product, and we'd like to keep it that way.

Your data, your call

If you've bought CozyBar and would like a copy of the details we can see, want them corrected, or want them deleted, just email us at hello@naumachiadesign.com. We'll sort it out with Polar for you. The same address works for any other questions about CozyBar or this policy.