Your work should not become someone else’s data business.

1. Scope and who is responsible

This policy applies to the Build Mode macOS app and the Build Mode website. “Build Mode,” “we,” and “us” refer to the creator and operator of Build Mode.

This policy does not cover a third-party website or service you choose to visit. Those services apply their own terms and privacy practices.

2. Data handled on your Mac

Sessions and practice records

Build Mode stores the information needed to show your progress: session identifiers, the skill you selected, start and end times, active seconds, optional notes, manual log entries, skill names and colors, settings, and recovery decisions.

Active-time signals

The app uses local macOS signals such as recent keyboard or pointer activity and display sleep to decide whether a running session is active. It does not record keystrokes, pointer content, or what appears on your screen.

Auto Mode

Auto Mode is on by default, and you can turn it off at any time in Settings > Auto mode. While it is on, macOS provides the name and bundle identifier of the frontmost application. Build Mode uses those values locally to match known app families or rules to your active skills. It does not collect window titles, document names, browser tabs, page URLs, or screen contents. Browsers are intentionally unassigned by default. You can correct or forget rules, and old observed-app entries are pruned after 90 days.

What the Mac app does not access

Build Mode does not request Accessibility, Input Monitoring, Screen Recording, camera, microphone, contacts, location, or photo-library permission. It includes no advertising, tracking, third-party analytics, or third-party crash-reporting SDK.

3. Website and analytics

The website uses DataFast analytics to measure visits, page activity, traffic sources, and the performance of launch campaigns. The default DataFast script may process IP address, browser and device information, user-agent string, country, cookies or similar identifiers, and page activity. DataFast processes this information to provide analytics to Build Mode; we do not use it to build an advertising profile or sell it to data brokers.

Our hosting, analytics, and database providers process network requests to deliver and measure the site and may keep limited technical logs under their own security and retention practices. License records are stored in Turso, and DataFast provides website analytics.

4. Purchases and licenses

Build Mode is a one-time paid license. Payments are processed by Stripe under its own privacy and security practices; we do not receive or store your card number. We receive only your email address and order reference, which are used to issue your license key.

After a successful purchase we receive your email address and an order identifier so we can generate your license key and email it to you. Those license records are stored in Turso. The license key is verified locally on your Mac and is never sent back to us or to any server.

You can ask us to resend your license key, or to remove your license and email record, at any time.

5. How information is used and shared

We use information only to operate the product and website, provide features you request, maintain security, respond to support or privacy requests, communicate about launch, and meet legal obligations.

We do not sell personal information, rent customer addresses, serve targeted ads, or share information with data brokers. Limited information may be processed by service providers that host the website, provide analytics, store license records, deliver email, process an optional future payment, or help protect the service. They may use it only to provide those services or meet their own legal obligations.

We may disclose information when reasonably necessary to comply with law, protect a person’s safety, investigate abuse, or defend the rights and integrity of Build Mode. If the product is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, or asset sale, information may transfer with the product subject to this policy and applicable law.

6. Security

Local application data is stored in Build Mode’s Application Support directory. The app sets restrictive permissions on that directory and its files. The website keeps database credentials on the server, validates and normalizes purchase webhooks, uses parameterized database operations, limits request size, and applies duplicate and bot protections.

No system is perfectly secure. Keep your Mac, email account, and operating system protected, and contact us if you believe your information has been compromised.

7. Retention, export, and deletion

Local records remain on your Mac until you delete them or use Erase Everything. That control removes local sessions, recovery state, skills, Auto Mode rules and observed app names, preferences, and diagnostics, then checks that the local data is gone. You can also export your local session records.

License records are kept while they are needed to support your purchase, until you request deletion, or until we determine they are no longer needed. Website analytics are retained according to the DataFast service plan and may be deleted by request. Service-provider logs may be retained for shorter operational and security periods. We may retain minimal records when required for legal, fraud-prevention, tax, dispute, or security purposes.

8. Your choices and privacy rights

You control whether to leave Auto Mode on and whether to add a note. You can stop a session, edit your skills, forget Auto Mode rules, export local data, erase local data, ask us to remove your license and email record, and block or delete website cookies through your browser settings.

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to ask what personal data we hold, receive a copy, correct it, delete it, restrict or object to certain processing, withdraw consent, or receive portable data. You may also have the right to complain to your local data-protection authority. We will verify and respond to requests as required by applicable law and will not discriminate against you for exercising a privacy right.

9. Children

Build Mode is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from a child under 13. If you believe a child has submitted information, contact us so we can delete it.

10. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as Build Mode changes. We will change the “Last updated” date and provide additional notice when a change materially affects how personal information is handled. We will not silently turn a local-only feature into a data collection practice.

11. Contact

For a privacy request or question, email us at hello@buildingnow.app. If you received a Build Mode email, you can reply to it and state “Privacy request” in the subject or first line. Include the email address involved and the request you want us to complete; do not send passwords, payment-card details, or sensitive session notes.