Privacy Policy
The short version. Inbox & Chill runs entirely on your Mac. There is no account to create, no server of mine for your data to sit on, and no analytics or telemetry in the app. The credentials you paste in are stored in your macOS Keychain and are sent only to the service they belong to. I cannot see your items, your messages, or your tokens, because they never reach me. The one thing I do hold is the email address you give when downloading the beta, so I can ask how the app is working for you.
Who this is
Inbox & Chill is made by Brandon Lucas Green, an individual developer in Massachusetts, United States. In this policy, "I" and "my" mean that person, and "the app" means the Inbox & Chill macOS application. Questions go to [email protected].
What the app collects
Nothing. The app contains no analytics, no crash reporting, no telemetry, no advertising identifiers, and no usage tracking of any kind. It does not create an account, and it does not transmit your items, message contents, settings, or credentials to me or to any third party acting on my behalf.
Everything the app stores — your queue, your archive, your settings — is stored locally on your Mac, in your user Library folder and, for credentials, in your macOS login Keychain.
Credentials and connected services
To show you items from a service, the app needs a credential for that service — an API key, a personal access token, or similar. Those are stored in your macOS Keychain, protected by the operating system, and are used only to make requests from your Mac directly to that service.
When you connect a service, your Mac talks to that service directly. I am not in the middle of that connection and have no visibility into it. Those services will see your requests and may log them according to their own policies. The services the app can connect to include Linear, GitHub, Slack, Sentry, Apple Mail (locally, on your Mac), ntfy, and any custom JSON feed you configure.
Their handling of your data is governed by their privacy policies, not this one. If you are using a work account, check whether your employer permits connecting it to third-party tools before you do.
You can remove a credential at any time from the app's settings, which deletes it from your Keychain.
Local integrations
Two features touch your machine beyond the app's own storage:
- Terminal and coding agent integration runs a listener on localhost, protected by a random port and bearer token, so local commands can push items into your queue. It accepts connections only from your own machine and sends nothing outward.
- Journal export, if you enable it, appends a line to a Markdown file you choose — typically an Obsidian daily note. That file is written on your Mac and goes nowhere else.
Software updates
The app checks for updates using Sparkle, a widely used open-source update framework for macOS. To do that it requests an update feed hosted on GitHub. That request reveals your IP address and the app version you are running to GitHub, in the same way that visiting any web page reveals your IP address to that site. It does not include any information about your queue, your connected services, or your credentials. You can turn automatic update checks off in the app's settings.
This website
inboxandchill.app is a static site hosted on Netlify. It sets no cookies, runs no analytics, and has no tracking scripts.
Two things still involve someone else's servers, as is true of essentially any website:
- Netlify serves the site and processes standard request data, including IP addresses, as part of delivering and protecting it. This is handled under Netlify's own privacy terms.
- GitHub is queried by your browser to show the current release version, and provides the download itself. That request reveals your IP address to GitHub.
The site also loads a typeface from Google Fonts, which reveals your IP address to Google when the font is fetched.
The beta download form
Downloading the beta asks for your email address. It is stored by Netlify Forms, on Netlify's servers, under its privacy terms, and I can read it. Netlify also records the submission's IP address and timestamp as part of its spam filtering.
I use it to check in occasionally and ask how Inbox & Chill is working for you, and to contact you about a licence key if I issue them at version 1.0. No marketing, no newsletter, not shared and not sold, and there is no other mailing list. If you'd rather not give it, the app is on GitHub — the releases are public and the source is MIT-licensed, so nothing here is gated on the form.
Email [email protected] to have your address removed at any time.
Payment
Inbox & Chill is sold for a one-time price. When purchasing becomes available, payment will be processed by a third-party payment provider, and your payment details will be handled by that provider under its own privacy policy. I do not receive or store your full card details. I do expect to receive an order record, which will include your email address, so that a licence key can be issued and support can be provided.
What I actually hold about you
If you email me, I have your email and whatever you wrote, for as long as that correspondence is useful. If you downloaded the beta through the form on the home page, I have the email address you gave. If you buy a licence, I have the order record described above. That is the complete list. There is no user database beyond it, because the app has no accounts.
If you would like me to delete correspondence or an order record, email [email protected] and I will, subject to any records I am required to keep for tax or accounting purposes. Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, or port personal data held about you; the same address is how to exercise them.
Children
Inbox & Chill is a tool for working adults and is not directed at children. I do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 13, and given the app collects nothing, there is nothing to collect.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted here with a new date at the top. Material changes — particularly anything that would introduce data collection where there is none today — will be noted in the app's release notes as well, not made quietly.
Contact
Anything at all: [email protected].