Privacy Policy

TopBar ("we", "us", or "the app") takes your privacy seriously. This policy explains what information the app handles and how. Spoiler: the app was built so there's nothing to handle in the first place.

We think privacy should come standard, not as something you have to switch on. TopBar runs entirely on your device and never reaches out to the internet.

TopBar does not collect, transmit, store, or share any personal information or usage data whatsoever. The app works completely offline and makes no network requests of any kind.

You will never find any of the following inside TopBar:

How you use TopBar is your business alone.

TopBar asks for accessibility permission through macOS System Settings so it can detect and rearrange menu bar items. That permission exists purely to make the app's core feature work.

It is never used to read, monitor, or send any other information from your Mac — not your documents, not your keystrokes, not your screen, and not your activity in other apps.

The only thing TopBar saves is your preferences — like where you placed the separator — and it does so locally using the standard macOS preferences system. This information stays in a sandboxed container on your device.

No copy of your settings is uploaded anywhere, and TopBar performs no iCloud synchronisation.

TopBar connects to no third-party services, analytics providers, advertising platforms, or cloud backends. Nothing about you is ever passed to anyone else, for any reason.

The only network activity that may occur is the optional delivery of app updates through standard macOS mechanisms, which fall under Apple's own privacy policy rather than ours.

TopBar is built to comply with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Because the app collects, stores, and transmits no personal information whatsoever, the obligations these laws place on data controllers and businesses simply do not arise.

For completeness, here is how your rights are satisfied:

• Right to access — there is no personal data held about you to provide.
• Right to rectification — we hold no personal data to correct.
• Right to erasure — there is nothing to delete, as nothing is collected.
• Right to opt out of sale — we never collect, share, or sell personal information to anyone.
• Right to non-discrimination — every feature of TopBar is available to everyone, with no data trade-off.

If you are an EU/EEA or California resident and have any questions about how these regulations apply to TopBar, you are welcome to contact us using the details below.

TopBar gathers no information from anyone, including children under 13. Since there's no data collection at all, no special handling is required for younger users.

Should this Privacy Policy ever change, we'll publish the updated version at topbarapp.com/privacy and refresh the date at the top of the page. Continuing to use TopBar after an update means you accept the revised policy.

We will never quietly add data collection — any such change would be reflected here first and made clear to you.

Questions or concerns about your privacy? We're glad to help.