The app collects nothing because there is nowhere for it to go. Here is exactly what that means.
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The app has no server. It has no account system, no analytics, no telemetry, and no crash reporting. It does not phone home. Nothing you do inside Vivarium is transmitted anywhere, because there is nowhere for it to be transmitted to.
Everything stays on your Mac, in
~/Library/Application Support/Vivarium/ and in your app
preferences: your imported videos and their thumbnails, the loop points you
set, your playlists and schedule, your licence key, and any feedback drafts
you have written. Deleting the app and that folder removes all of it.
The Feedback pane does not send anything on its own. Pressing send opens a pre-filled GitHub issue in your browser, which you then submit. Anything you include — including the optional diagnostics block, which is shown to you verbatim beforehand — becomes a public GitHub issue governed by GitHub's privacy policy. If you do not submit it, nothing leaves your Mac.
Browsing or downloading stock clips contacts Pixabay or Pexels directly from your Mac. Those requests carry your IP address to them, as any web request does, and are subject to their privacy policies. Nothing about you is sent to the operator.
The site is static, sets no cookies, and runs no analytics. Two things are worth naming: it is hosted on Netlify, whose servers keep standard access logs including IP addresses; and it loads two typefaces from Google Fonts, which means Google receives a request from your browser when you visit. Both can be seen in your browser's network inspector.
[TO CONFIRM BEFORE LAUNCH — name the payment processor and link its privacy policy. The processor, not the operator, handles your card details.]
Vivarium is not directed at children and collects nothing from anyone.
There is no personal data held about you to access, correct, export or delete, because none is collected. If you believe otherwise, write to hello@getvivarium.app and it will be looked into.
If the app ever gains a server, an account system, or analytics, this page will be updated before that ships, and the change will be noted in the release notes rather than made quietly.
hello@getvivarium.app