Privacy Policy — MonitorMonitor

Your display settings and window layouts stay on your Mac. MonitorMonitor never reads what is on your screen, never uses screen recording, and never uploads window titles or positions. The only things that reach our servers are your Bravely Account sign-in, your purchase state, optional aggregate analytics, and a diagnostic report if you choose to send one.

MonitorMonitor adjusts brightness, contrast, volume, input, and scaling by talking to the monitor over the monitor's own control channel and through macOS display settings. That happens entirely between your Mac and the monitor: no data leaves your Mac to make it work, and it needs no macOS permission. To remember your settings per display, the app stores each display's identifiers (its model and serial number, as the monitor reports them) locally on your Mac.

Spots, layouts, and Cascade move windows using the window control permission, which macOS lists under Privacy & Security › Accessibility. The app asks for it the first time you use a window feature, not before, and you can revoke it there at any time; the display half keeps working without it. With that permission the app reads the position, size, and title of your open windows so it can capture a layout and put windows back. That information is stored on your Mac only. It is never uploaded, and it is never included in analytics or diagnostic reports.

MonitorMonitor does not use screen recording and does not read the contents of your screen. It does not record keystrokes or clicks. Window titles are used locally to match a window to its place in a layout, and nowhere else.

MonitorMonitor requires a Bravely Account, which is covered by its own policy at bravely.dev/privacy/bravely-account. It is sold only as part of the Mac Utility Bundle. The purchase is made through our website checkout and processed by the payment provider named under Sub-processors; we store the minimum record needed to know that your account owns the bundle. We do not collect or store payment card details.

We record aggregate product analytics so we can tell what is worth building and what is broken: that the app was opened, that a display was detected and what kind of control it supported, that a default was applied or reverted, that a layout was captured or applied, and that a cascade ran, for which app and how many windows. We do not send display names, window titles, or the contents of any window. You can turn analytics off in Settings.

A diagnostic report is sent only when you press the Send Diagnostic Report button. It contains the app's own recent log lines and information about your displays: the model, the control features each one reported, and any errors the app hit while talking to them. Window titles are removed before the report is sent.

MonitorMonitor checks our servers for a new version. That check tells us the version you are on and the usual information any download involves, such as your IP address. It does not carry anything about your displays or windows.

Display settings, layouts, and display identifiers live on your Mac until you delete them or remove the app; we hold no copy. Purchase records are kept for as long as your account exists, plus whatever the law requires us to keep for tax and accounting. Analytics events are kept in aggregate. A diagnostic report is kept so we can investigate the problem you reported; email privacy@bravely.dev to have one deleted. Deleting your Bravely Account works as described in the Bravely Account policy and has no effect on the settings on your Mac, which were never ours.

MonitorMonitor is intended for adults. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13, or under 16 in places where 16 is the relevant age for information-society services.

Depending on where you live, you have rights over the personal data we hold about you. We honor these rights for everyone who asks, regardless of where you live. • Access — ask what personal data we hold about you and get a copy. • Correction — ask us to fix data that is wrong or incomplete. • Deletion — ask us to delete your personal data by emailing privacy@bravely.dev from the address on your account. Where a product has a built-in Delete Account control you can use that instead; bravely.dev/delete-account explains what applies to each product. • Portability — ask for your data in a portable, machine-readable format. • Objection and restriction — ask us to stop or limit certain processing. • Withdraw consent — where we rely on consent (marketing email, optional analytics), you can withdraw it at any time without affecting processing that already happened. • Non-discrimination — we will not degrade your service or charge you more for exercising any of these rights. EEA and UK residents also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority. California residents may use an authorized agent; we may verify the agent's authority and confirm the request with you first. Other US states with comprehensive privacy laws (including Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Texas, Oregon, Montana, and others as they take effect) have equivalent rights, including a right to appeal a denied request — reply to our decision email with "Appeal" and we will respond in writing within the period the law requires. Canadian residents have access, correction, and consent-withdrawal rights under PIPEDA; Australian residents have access and correction rights under the Australian Privacy Principles. To exercise any right, email privacy@bravely.dev. We respond within the timeframe the applicable law requires — generally 30 days under GDPR and 45 days under the CCPA, with an extension where the law permits one. We may need to verify your identity before acting, usually by confirming control of the email address on the account.

If you are in the EEA or UK, we rely on these lawful bases under the GDPR and UK GDPR: • Performance of a contract — creating and securing your account, delivering the features you paid for, syncing your content, processing purchases, and providing support. • Legitimate interests — keeping the service secure and reliable, preventing fraud and abuse, understanding aggregate product usage, and improving the product. We balance these against your rights and do not use them to justify intrusive tracking. • Consent — marketing email, and optional analytics where a client offers a toggle. You can withdraw consent at any time. • Legal obligation — keeping tax, accounting, and consent records, and responding to lawful requests.

Bravely Studios LLC is a US company. We and our sub-processors process data in the United States and in other countries where they operate. For personal data originating in the EEA, UK, or Switzerland, we rely on appropriate transfer safeguards in our processor agreements — such as the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses and the UK International Data Transfer Addendum — where those safeguards are required. Email privacy@bravely.dev if you want more detail about the safeguards that apply to you.

For California residents, the categories of personal information we collect for this product are: • Identifiers — your Bravely Account identifier, email address, and device or installation identifiers. • Commercial information — the record of your Mac Utility Bundle purchase and entitlement, and any refund. • Internet or other electronic network activity — aggregate feature-usage events, app version, macOS version, and the contents of a diagnostic report if you choose to send one. • Coarse geolocation — a country-level signal derived from your network connection, used for consent rules and tax. We collect this from you, your device, and our own systems, and we use it to run the product, honor what you have bought, keep the service secure, and support you. We disclose it to the service providers listed under "Sub-processors," each for a business purpose under a written contract. We do not sell your personal information and we do not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising, as those terms are defined by the CCPA and CPRA, and we have not done so in the preceding 12 months. We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information for any purpose that would trigger the right to limit. If that ever changes we will update this policy and provide the required opt-out before the practice begins. Retention is described under "Data Retention" above and, for account-level data, in the Bravely Account privacy policy.

We use the following service providers to run this product. They receive only what they need to perform their service for us, and each is bound by the data-processing terms that apply to our use of their service. Where a provider is not yet covered by a written data-processing agreement with us, its entry below says so. If you need a data-processing agreement in place before you use this product, email privacy@bravely.dev: • Cloudflare, Inc. — hosting for bravely.dev and the account, purchase, and diagnostics services the app talks to. See cloudflare.com/privacypolicy. • Google LLC — Firebase Authentication, which backs Bravely Account sign-in (including Sign in with Google). See policies.google.com/privacy. • Apple Inc. — Sign in with Apple, when you choose that sign-in method. See apple.com/legal/privacy. • Paddle.com Market Ltd — our merchant of record for the Mac Utility Bundle purchase. Paddle handles checkout, payment processing, invoicing, and sales tax/VAT. See paddle.com/legal/privacy. • PostHog Inc. — product analytics for aggregate feature usage and reliability, which you can turn off in Settings. See posthog.com/privacy. • Resend Inc. — sends our transactional email (sign-in codes, receipts, password resets, support replies). See resend.com/legal/privacy-policy. If we add or change a sub-processor in a way that materially changes how your data is processed, we will update this policy and give additional notice where the law or our data-processing commitments require it.

We protect your data with authenticated accounts, encryption in transit, access controls on our backend systems, and a deliberately small number of people who can reach production. No system is perfectly secure, and we do not claim guarantees we have not built and verified. Where a product makes a specific security claim, that claim appears in the app-specific sections above and is limited to what we have actually shipped. If we become aware of a breach affecting your personal data, we will notify you and the relevant regulators as required by law.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make a material change — a new category of data, a new sub-processor, a new purpose, or a new legal basis — we will update the "Last updated" and "Effective" dates and give additional notice where the law requires it. Where a change requires fresh consent under the GDPR, UK GDPR, CASL, or a similar regime, we will ask for it before relying on the new purpose. Non-material changes (typos, clarifications, link fixes) are reflected by updating the "Last updated" date.

Bravely Studios LLC Privacy and data rights: privacy@bravely.dev Product support: support@bravely.dev Website: https://bravely.dev Postal address: available on request to privacy@bravely.dev.