Privacy Policy
Summary. LaunchFlow does not collect, transmit, or share personal data. Your sequences, run history, and settings stay on your Mac. The app has no accounts, no analytics, no advertising, no tracking, no crash reporting, and no third-party SDKs. The only network activity is fetching the icon of each website you add, directly from that website. You are responsible for the content you save and for the backups you keep, as described below.
1. Who we are and what this policy covers
LaunchFlow is developed by İbrahim Yüce and published as Stargazer Apps (“we”, “us”). This policy explains what the Mac App Store edition of LaunchFlow (the “app”) does with information. It does not cover the Mac App Store, Apple's services, or any website you visit through a step in a sequence. Those are governed by their own terms and privacy policies.
Contact: ibrahim7yuce@gmail.com.
2. Information we collect
We do not collect any information from the app. We do not receive your sequences, run history, site icons, selected files or apps, settings, IP address, device identifiers, or any other information. The app has no connection to any server of ours.
When the app fetches a website's icon (section 6), that website receives a normal web request, as it would from any browser. We do not receive that request or anything in it.
If you choose to share app analytics and crash reports with developers in macOS, Apple may send us aggregated diagnostics. Apple handles that data under its own Privacy Policy, and you can turn this off in macOS settings.
3. Data stored on your Mac
The app stores the following data locally, inside its App Sandbox container on your Mac:
- Sequences: names, steps (apps, web addresses, and files), delays, schedules, run conditions, keyboard shortcuts, and options. They are kept in a library file that the app writes atomically. With Autosave changes on (the default), changes are saved as you make them.
- Run history: up to the 100 most recent runs, with the sequence name, start time, duration, result, and the result of each step, including any error message. You can clear it at any time.
- Site icons: one icon image for each website you add or run, kept in a folder named
SiteIcons. Deleting a sequence does not delete its site icons. - Preferences: the settings you choose, such as Autosave, notifications, menu-bar-only mode, appearance, and language. The app also keeps the progress of the welcome tour and feature tips, the recently run sequences, and records that stop a schedule or a run-at-login sequence from running twice.
None of this data leaves your Mac through the app. You can delete sequences and clear the run history inside the app. To see the files themselves, open Settings → Advanced and choose Reveal in Finder. You can also export your sequences to a file at any time.
If the library file cannot be read, the app moves it aside as sequences-unreadable- followed by a timestamp, so that a later save cannot overwrite it.
4. Your content and sensitive information
The sequences you save belong to you. Please do not save passwords, private keys, API tokens, payment card numbers, or other secrets in LaunchFlow, including inside web addresses. Some addresses carry tokens or personal details in their query text. Avoid saving those unless you are comfortable with them being stored in a file on your Mac. The app does not encrypt the library file or the run history. Anyone who has access to your Mac account, or to a backup or export of your sequences, may be able to read them. We recommend keeping FileVault enabled and protecting your user account with a strong password.
5. Files, folders, and apps you choose
When you pick a file, folder, or app with the macOS file picker, LaunchFlow stores a security-scoped bookmark. The bookmark lets the app open that item again later without access to the rest of your Mac. The app asks macOS to open these items, and it does not read or upload their contents. Importing a sequences file reads only the file you choose.
If a step cannot find its app or file, for example because it was removed, that step fails until you select the item again.
6. Site icons and network requests
LaunchFlow shows a small site icon next to each web step. To get the icon, the app uses Apple's LinkPresentation framework, the same framework macOS uses for link previews, to fetch it from the website. The app fetches an icon:
- when you add a web link;
- when you finish editing a web address;
- when sample sequences are added;
- when a sequence that uses the link runs, if the stored icon is older than one day.
Opening lists and windows never touches the network. They only show icons that are already stored. Only http and https addresses are fetched. The request goes to the website itself. The app does not use a third-party favicon service, so no icon service learns which sites you use.
Running a web step opens the address in your default browser or in the app you chose. The browser's own network requests follow that browser's policies. We do not receive any of this data.
7. Permissions and system features
LaunchFlow does not ask for Accessibility, Input Monitoring, Screen Recording, Contacts, Calendars, Location, Camera, or Microphone access. It cannot see what you type in other apps. It uses these macOS features, each under your control:
- Notifications: macOS asks for permission only when you turn on “Notify when a run finishes”. The notification is created on your Mac, and the app sends nothing with it.
- Launch at login: after onboarding, the app may ask whether it should start at login. It changes this setting only if you agree. You can change it later in Settings → General. macOS may ask you to approve it in System Settings.
- Keyboard shortcuts: global shortcuts use the system's hot-key registration. They react only to the shortcut you chose and do not monitor your keystrokes.
- File and app selection: the standard macOS file picker, as described in section 5.
8. Run conditions and running apps
Run conditions read the state of your Mac so that the app can decide whether a run should start. The app checks whether an external display is connected, whether the Mac is on AC power, and which apps are running, so that a sequence can be skipped while a chosen app is open. These checks happen on your Mac, in memory. The list of running apps is not saved or sent anywhere. The app you choose for a skip condition is stored with the sequence.
9. Purchases and reviews
LaunchFlow is sold through the Mac App Store. Downloads, purchases, receipts, refunds, and family sharing are handled entirely by Apple under Apple's terms. We do not receive or store your payment information. The app has no subscriptions and no in-app purchases.
The “Rate LaunchFlow” link opens the app's review page in the Mac App Store. macOS may also show its own review prompt. The app sends nothing with either.
10. Third parties
The app does not use third-party SDKs, analytics, advertising, or crash-reporting services. It relies only on Apple's system frameworks that come with macOS. Websites you add and apps you open are governed by their own policies. Downloads and updates are handled by the Mac App Store under Apple's privacy policy.
11. Children
The app is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect information from anyone, including children under 13. Because the app collects no information, parents and guardians do not need to take additional steps, but they remain responsible for how children use the app and the sequences they create in it.
12. Your rights and choices
Because we do not hold personal data about you, there is nothing for us to access, correct, export, or delete on our side. You control the data on your Mac. You can edit or delete sequences, clear the run history, turn off Autosave changes, notifications, and Launch at login in Settings, export or import your sequences, and open the configuration folder to inspect or delete its files.
Depending on where you live, you may have rights under applicable law, such as the GDPR (EU and EEA), UK GDPR, the CCPA (California), or Turkey's Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 (KVKK). Because we do not process personal data through the app, most of these rights are fulfilled by the controls above. If you have a question or request, write to us at the address in section 15.
13. Security, limitations, and warranty
We design the app to keep data on your device, but no software is completely secure. You are responsible for keeping your Mac, your user account, and your backups secure. To the fullest extent permitted by law, the app is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, and we are not liable for loss of or damage to sequences, run history, backups, or other data, including loss caused by a failure of your Mac, deleting the app, or an unexpected update. Nothing in this policy limits any right you have that cannot be limited under applicable law, including mandatory consumer protections in your country.
14. Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, we will update the effective date at the top of this page. If the app ever starts collecting data or sending data to any server of ours, we will update this policy before that change takes effect and, where the law requires it, ask for your consent first. Any network use beyond fetching site icons will be described here before it ships. Your continued use of the app after an update means you accept the updated policy.
15. Governing law and contact
This policy is governed by the laws of the Republic of Türkiye, without prejudice to any mandatory laws of your country of residence that apply to you. For questions, requests, or concerns about this policy, write to ibrahim7yuce@gmail.com.