Privacy policy

This covers barely.dev and Barely, including the app. Polar, which sells Barely, handles your payment details under its own privacy policy.

Barely on your Mac

The app sends nothing itself. The barely command talks to barely.dev and nothing else: when it starts a trial, when it activates or deactivates a licence, and to check in, daily during a trial and about once a month with a licence. Each time it sends:

your trial or licence
the version of Barely
an anonymous ID for your Mac, made on the Mac from its hardware ID, which never leaves your Mac
your Mac's model and name, which only you see, on your account page

Barely updates through Homebrew, not through us.

What you send us

Contact form: your name, email and message, kept so we can reply.
Product news: when you start a trial you can ask for product news by email. If you do, we keep your email and which ad brought you, if one did.
Sign-in: we email you a link to sign in, with no password. Signing in sets a cookie that keeps you signed in.

This site

We use PostHog to see which pages people visit and what they click, so we can tell what works. It sets a cookie to tell one visit from the next.
PostHog never loads on a page whose address holds a sign-in link, a trial code or an order.
A page you reach from one of our ads also sets one cookie, for 30 days, so a trial you start later can be credited to that ad.
On those ad pages we also count visits and clicks ourselves, without storing your IP address. Our count can't be tied to you or followed from one day to the next.

Who else sees it

Polar sells Barely, takes the payment and issues your licence key.
Resend sends our email, including sign-in links.
PostHog records how this site is used.
hCaptcha checks that the contact form isn't being sent by a bot.

Your data

To see or delete what we hold about you, contact us.