Privacy Policy

1. The short version

Halo Island and Halo Launch don't have accounts, and they don't include analytics or telemetry. Everything the apps store stays on your Mac, and nothing is sent to Halo's servers.

Every permission the apps ask for is optional and powers a single feature. If you don't grant one, only that feature is unavailable.

2. What stays on your Mac

Halo Island and Halo Launch store their data locally on your Mac. It's never uploaded to Halo, so we can't see it or access it.

Data stored on your Mac includes:

• Your clipboard history in Halo Island, including pinned items.
• Files you place on the shelf in Halo Island.
• Your app grid, folders, and layout in Halo Launch, including a layout imported from Launchpad.
• Your settings and preferences for both apps.

3. Clipboard history

Halo Island keeps a history of what you copy so you can find it again later. Items that password managers mark as concealed, such as passwords, are skipped and never saved.

You can pin the items you want to keep and clear your history at any time.

4. Permissions and what they're for

macOS asks for your approval before an app can use certain parts of your Mac. Halo asks only when a feature needs it, and every permission is optional. You can review or revoke them at any time in System Settings > Privacy & Security.

• Accessibility: lets Halo Island show its HUD when you press the volume, brightness, and keyboard light keys, and lets Halo Launch open with the F4 or Spotlight key. Halo Island also uses it to read what IINA and Podcasts are playing and to press their play and skip buttons.
• Automation (Apple Events): lets Halo Island show what's playing in Music, Spotify, VLC, and your browser, and lets Halo Launch add apps to the Dock with “Add to Dock”.
• Camera: used by Halo Island only while the Mirror tab is open. The image appears on your screen and is never recorded or transmitted.
• Full Disk Access (optional): used only to read the macOS Focus state so Halo Island can show your current Focus and, when granted, to read the macOS privacy database to show whether Automation access was allowed.
• Calendars: read-only access so Halo Island can show your next event. Halo never creates, changes, or deletes events.
• Reminders: lets Halo Island show today's reminders and check one off when you tap it. Halo never creates or deletes reminders.
• Screen & System Audio Recording: used only when you set a volume for an app. Halo Island passes that app's sound through to your speakers at the volume you chose. Nothing is recorded, stored, or transmitted.
• Location: approximate location, used only to show the weather. See “Weather” below.
• Downloads folder: lets Halo Island show the progress of your downloads.

5. Weather

To show current conditions, Halo Island sends your Mac's approximate location to Open-Meteo (open-meteo.com). The coordinates are rounded to two decimal places, about 1 km, before they leave your Mac.

No account, name, or identifier is sent with the request. Weather is optional and needs Location access; without it, your location isn't shared.

6. Network requests

The apps make three kinds of requests to third parties: the weather request to Open-Meteo; when you type a currency conversion in Halo Launch's search, a request for the day's exchange rates to Frankfurter (frankfurter.dev), which publishes the European Central Bank's reference rates and receives nothing about you or what you typed; and, if you buy Halo Pro, license checks with Lemon Squeezy.

To activate Halo Pro, the apps send your license key and your Mac's name to Lemon Squeezy, so the license can be counted on that Mac. Every few days they check the key again. Lemon Squeezy already knows your name and email from the purchase; the apps send nothing else. The apps don't send any data to Halo's servers.

In the future, the apps will check for updates. We'll explain how update checks work in this policy before they're introduced.

7. Our website

Our website is hosted on Vercel. Like most hosting providers, Vercel processes standard server logs, such as your IP address and browser user agent, to keep the site secure and deliver it to you.

The website may use Google Analytics 4 to understand how visitors use it, but only after you consent in the cookie banner. Until then, consent is denied by default through Google Consent Mode v2.

You can change your choice at any time with the “Cookie settings” link in the site footer.

The apps themselves don't use Google Analytics or any other analytics.

8. Your rights

If you're in Brazil, the General Data Protection Law (LGPD) protects your personal data. If you're in the European Union, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) does. Under these laws, you have the right to:

• Access the personal data we hold about you.
• Correct data that is inaccurate or out of date.
• Delete your data.
• Receive your data in a portable format.
• Object to how your data is processed.
• Withdraw your consent at any time.

9. You're in control

Because app data lives only on your Mac, you don't need to ask us to access or delete it. You can clear your clipboard history and other data in each app's settings, or remove the apps to delete their data.

On the website, you can withdraw consent to analytics through “Cookie settings” in the footer. For any other request, email support@halomac.app.

10. Children

Halo's apps and website are not directed to children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect personal information from them.

11. Changes to this policy

If we change this policy, we'll publish the new version on this page and update the date at the top.

12. Contact us

Have a question about privacy or want to exercise your rights? Email support@halomac.app. We reply within one business day (24 hours on business days).