Privacy Policy
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Uptend is built to respect your privacy. This policy explains, in plain language, the little data the app handles and why.
What stays on your Mac
Everything Uptend learns about your Mac stays on your Mac: the list of apps you have installed, their versions, your settings, your update history and your licence. Uptend never uploads your app list, file names, your name or your e-mail address.
Checking for updates
To find updates, Uptend contacts the developers' own release feeds and public catalogues (such as Homebrew and the Mac App Store), the same way your browser would. Those requests contain only what is needed to ask "is there a newer version of this app?"
The anonymous weekly check
At most once a week, Uptend sends one small, anonymous message to our server so we can count how many Macs run Uptend and detect a single licence key being shared across far more Macs than a subscription allows. This message contains only:
- a one-way hashed ID for your Mac, which stays the same over time so we can count Macs (we cannot reverse it to identify your Mac);
- a one-way hashed ID of your licence key, if you have one;
- the Uptend version and build, your macOS version and your interface language;
- your plan tier (free, trial or Pro), a few on/off technical flags about this copy, a timestamp and a random one-time number that prevents replays;
- whether this copy of Uptend is genuine or has been modified.
It contains no IP-based identity we store, no app list, no file names, no account name and no e-mail. Your country is derived by our network provider (Cloudflare) from the connection and stored only as a two-letter code for aggregate statistics.
You can turn the weekly check off at any time in Settings ▸ General ▸ Anonymous weekly check.
Payments
If you buy Uptend Pro, the purchase is handled by our payment provider, Polar. Uptend never sees or stores your card details. Your licence key is kept on your Mac.
No tracking, no ads, no third-party analytics
Uptend contains no advertising SDKs and no third-party analytics or tracking frameworks. The only promotions Uptend may show are for our own products, and only inside a copy that has been modified or cracked.
Contact
Questions about privacy? Write to support@macappkit.com.