Privacy Policy

What stays on your Mac

Your boards and layouts, the web pages and PDFs you add, notes, suggestions from pages Blink has shown, and your settings are stored on your Mac. We never receive them. How to remove them is explained in Support.

Web pages on your board

Web pages in your tiles load directly from the sites you add, as they would in a browser. Those sites receive your requests and your IP address, may set their own cookies and store data, and their own privacy policies apply. Cookies and sign-ins, along with a snapshot of each page for when it can’t load, stay on your Mac.

To remove website data, open Settings › General and click Clear… next to Website data. To block ads, trackers and cookie banners, Blink uses lists built into the app; nothing is sent anywhere to check a page.

Calendar and Reminders

Only if you add the Calendar or Reminders widget does Blink ask for access, through macOS. Blink then reads your events and reminders on your Mac to show them, and marks a reminder as done when you tick it off. This information never leaves your Mac through Blink. You can turn access off at any time in System Settings › Privacy & Security.

Stock quotes

With your own API key, Blink requests quotes straight from the provider you chose, Finnhub or Twelve Data. The provider receives the symbols you follow, your key and your IP address, and its own privacy policy applies. Your key is stored in the macOS keychain and sent only to that provider. You can instead show a quotes web page, which works like any other web page.

Purchases and the trial

The free trial and the purchase are handled by Apple through the App Store, under Apple’s privacy policy. We don’t receive your name, your payment details or your Apple Account information. Blink only asks the App Store whether the trial or the purchase belongs to your Apple Account.

If you have chosen in macOS to share analytics with app developers, Apple may give us crash reports and anonymous usage figures. These come from macOS, not from Blink, and you can turn this off in System Settings › Privacy & Security › Analytics & Improvements.

Your keyboard

Blink only checks whether the shortcut you chose is pressed. It never records what you type, and it needs no keyboard permission to do this.

Exporting layouts

Settings › General › Layouts › Export… writes your layouts to a file in a place you choose. API keys aren’t included. The file goes nowhere unless you send it.

This website

blink.beeddy.com is a set of static pages. It uses no cookies, analytics, ads or embedded content, and loads nothing from other servers. As with any website, the server processes technical data such as IP addresses and the pages requested to deliver the site; it keeps no access log.

When you email us

We receive your email address and your message and use them only to answer you. We don’t add you to any list, and you can ask us at any time to delete your messages. We have no data about you from Blink itself, so there is nothing for us to look up, correct or delete.

Children

Blink isn’t directed at children. Since it collects no data, it collects none from children either.

Changes and contact

If Blink or this policy changes, we’ll update this page and the date at the top. Questions about privacy: support@beeddy.com.