Nothing leaves your Mac.

1.The short version

Deskwatch is a theft alarm, so it watches the motion sensor in your MacBook the whole time protection is on. None of those readings ever leave your Mac. The app has no account, no sync, no analytics, and it does not need an internet connection to work. It sends two things: your licence key, with your Mac's name, to check that the key is valid, and once a day a question to this website asking whether a newer version is out.

The only personal information we ever see is the email address you use when you buy a licence, so we can find your order and help you with it later. The website counts visits without cookies.

2.What the app collects

Nothing. Motion readings are processed in memory on your Mac and thrown away as soon as they have been checked against the trigger. No reading, alarm, timestamp or location is written to a file, sent to us or sent to anyone else.

One exception, and it is off unless you turn it on: Save motion data for support, an option you would only use if support asks. While it is on, Deskwatch saves its motion readings to a file in your home folder and notes what it did, such as when protection turned on, in your Mac's own log. Both stay on your Mac unless you choose to send them to us.

Your settings, such as the siren you chose and how long the countdown is, are stored on your Mac in the app's own preferences, the same way any Mac app stores its settings. Your licence key is kept in the macOS Keychain. Both stay on your Mac.

When Deskwatch asks for Touch ID or your password, macOS handles the check. The app only learns whether it succeeded. It never sees your fingerprint, your password, or anything about them.

If you set a Shortcut to run when the alarm fires, that Shortcut runs on your Mac under your control. What it does, and where it sends anything, is up to how you built it.

3.When you buy a licence

Payment is handled entirely by Dodo Payments, which sells the licence as merchant of record. Your card or UPI details go to them and never to us, and their own privacy policy governs what they keep.

Once a payment clears, Dodo emails your licence key and receipt to the address you used, and keeps a record of that address, the purchase reference, the date and the key. We can look that record up, and that is how we resend a key you have lost, process a refund, or find your order when you write to us.

When you enter your licence key in the app, the key and your Mac's name are sent to Dodo once, to activate it. After that the app sends only the key and the activation reference Dodo gave back, every three days, to check the key is still valid. Your Mac's name is not sent again, nothing else goes with either request, and the app keeps working when it is offline.

We do not send marketing email, and there is no newsletter to unsubscribe from.

4.Updates

Once a day, Deskwatch asks mydeskwatch.com whether a newer version is out. The request says which version of Deskwatch you have, and like any visit to this website it reaches our hosting provider's access logs with your IP address. Nothing about you, your Mac or your use of Deskwatch goes with it.

When a newer version is out, Deskwatch asks before installing it and downloads it from this website. Every update is signed, and the app refuses one that is not. You can turn the daily check off in Deskwatch's Settings, under General.

5.The website

This website counts visits with Cloudflare Web Analytics, which uses no cookies and does not track you across sites. It sets no tracking cookies and stores nothing in your browser.

If you arrived from a tagged link or another website, the checkout notes that source (for example "reddit") with your order, so we know which posts work.

Our hosting provider keeps ordinary server access logs, which include IP addresses, for a short period to keep the site running and to investigate abuse.

6.How long we keep it

Purchase records stay with Dodo for as long as your licence is valid, because they are what lets us help you with it and honour a refund. Server logs are rotated within a few weeks by the hosting provider.

7.Your choices

Email support@mydeskwatch.com and we will tell you what we hold under your address, correct it, or delete it. Deleting a purchase record means we can no longer look up your licence, so we will confirm with you first.

You can turn the daily update check off in Deskwatch's Settings, under General. The licence check stays on, because it is how the app knows your key is valid.

8.Changes and contact

If this policy changes, the date at the top moves and the change is described here. We will not quietly start collecting something this page says we do not.

30 October 2026: the website now counts visits with Cloudflare Web Analytics, and the checkout notes which website or tagged link sent you.

27 September 2026: added Updates, because from version 1.3 the app checks this website for a newer version once a day, and the paragraph about Save motion data for support, an option that already existed and was missing from this page.

Questions go to support@mydeskwatch.com. The terms of use cover the licence itself.