Privacy

Last updated October 15, 2026

The short version: our websites collect very little, our apps do not track you, and nothing is sold or shared with advertisers. Our apps look for updates and the paid ones check their license, and this page says exactly what those checks send.

Our websites

This covers inkling-labs.com and github-trending-archives.com.

Analytics. We measure traffic on both sites with OpenPanel, analytics software running on our own server. It records page views, the page you came from, links you follow off the site, general information about your browser and device, and an approximate location (country or region) derived from your connection. It does not use advertising cookies, does not follow you across other websites, and the data never leaves our server or goes to any third party. Each site is measured separately.

Hosting and downloads. Both sites, the app downloads, and the update files are served by Vercel. Palilogy and Rivlet are the exceptions: their downloads and updates come from GitHub, where their releases are published. Like any web host, each handles your IP address in order to deliver a page or a file.

Contact form. The form is on inkling-labs.com. GitHub Trending Archives has no forms and no accounts, so analytics and hosting are all it involves. When you write to us, we receive the name, email address, and message you enter, plus which project you picked if any. We use it to reply to you and for nothing else. It is delivered to us by an email service, Resend, and kept in our inbox; we do not add you to any list.

Email updates. inkling-labs.com has a form to hear about new apps and releases by email. If you use it, the address you enter is stored with Resend, the email service that sends those notes, and nowhere else. We use it for those notes and for nothing else, we do not share it, and every email has an unsubscribe link that removes it. Buying an app or writing to us never adds you to this list.

Cookies. Neither site sets cookies for tracking or advertising.

Buying an app

Our paid apps are sold through Lemon Squeezy, which is the seller of record. It takes your payment, sends your receipt and license key, and handles tax. At checkout it asks for your name, your email address, and a billing address, and a tax ID if you have one. Your card or PayPal details go to Lemon Squeezy and never reach us. We receive your name, your email address, the city, region, and country from your billing address, and what you bought, and we use them to support you and to manage your license. Lemon Squeezy's privacy policy covers what it does with the rest.

License checks

A free trial runs on a clock kept on your Mac and makes no license checks at all. Once you enter a license key, the app contacts Lemon Squeezy when you activate it, at most once every 7 days after that, and when you deactivate it. Each check sends your license key and an activation id. Activating also sends your Mac's name, so you can tell your two Macs apart when you move a license. If your Mac is named after you, that name is what we see next to the activation.

The key and the activation id are stored on your Mac, protected by your login keychain. A licensed Mac that is offline keeps working for 30 days between checks. Nothing about how you use the app is part of a license check.

Update checks

Apps that update themselves ask inkling-labs.com whether a newer version exists, then download it if so. Palilogy and Rivlet ask GitHub instead. Like any web request, this carries your IP address and the name and version of the app or its updater. It carries no license key, no Mac name, and nothing that identifies you or your Mac.

Our apps

Each app states its own data handling here. None of them contains analytics or tracking. If an app is not listed, ask us before assuming anything.

• Silo. Silo is a window onto Google services you already use. What you do in Gmail, Calendar, and the rest stays between you and Google, the same as in a browser, and Google's own policies apply to it. Silo itself makes two kinds of connections: the license checks and the update checks described above. It checks for updates at launch and once a day.
• Handybar. Your commands and settings live in a local file you control, and your commands run on your Mac. Handybar itself makes license checks and update checks as described above. When you add a pack from a link, it downloads that one file from the address in the link and shows you every command before adding anything. A command does whatever it says, so a command that uses the network will. Two in our Network pack do when you run them: Show/Copy External IP asks ipinfo.io for your address, and Ping Test pings 1.1.1.1.
• Captain's Log. Your journal stays on your Mac. Recording, transcription, and cleanup run on your machine, and no journal audio or text is ever sent anywhere, by the app or to us. Captain's Log itself uses the network for three things, and none of them carries anything from your journal: the license checks and update checks described above, and a one-time download of its transcription and cleanup models from inkling-labs.com the first time you run it. It verifies each model file before using it, and the models then run on your Mac. There is no account. Connecting it to an AI assistant is off until you turn it on. When it is on, the assistant reads only the entries that a conversation you started asks for, and what it reads is then covered by that company's privacy policy, not this one.
• Palilogy. Runs on your Mac, with no account and no license check. It looks for updates on GitHub, where its releases are published, and makes no other connections. It is open source, so you can confirm that yourself.
• Rivlet. Rivlet turns a website into a Mac app, and each app it makes is a window onto that site. What you do there stays between you and the site, the same as in a browser, and that site's policies apply to it. Each app keeps its own logins, cookies, and site data on your Mac, separate from Safari and from every other app Rivlet made, and Rivlet never reads, copies, or sends any of it. Rivlet itself uses the network for two things: when you make an app, it fetches the site's name and icon from the address you typed, and it looks for updates on GitHub, where its releases are published. There is no account and no license check. Scripts and custom styles you add to an app run with the same access to the page that the site has, and they are yours. Rivlet is open source, so you can confirm all of this yourself.

How long we keep things

Contact messages stay in our inbox until your question is settled, and we delete them when they are no longer needed to help you. Purchase records live with Lemon Squeezy for as long as tax law requires it to keep them. We keep your name, your email address, and your activations for as long as your license is active, so we can support it and move it between Macs. Analytics data stays on our server for as long as we run the site. It is never tied to you, so there is nothing in it to look up or delete on your behalf.

Your choices

Want to know what we have about you, or want it deleted? Use the contact form and we will sort it out. For the contact form, the only data we hold is what you sent us. For a purchase, it is your name, your email address, the city, region, and country you gave at checkout, your order, and the names of the Macs you activated. Deactivating a Mac in the app removes its activation.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. We will not quietly weaken it.

September 19, 2026: added buying, license checks, and update checks, which arrive as our apps go on sale and start updating themselves. Added hosting, Palilogy, and GitHub Trending Archives, and noted that analytics records links you follow off the site.

September 21, 2026: Palilogy's downloads and update checks go to GitHub, not inkling-labs.com. Captain's Log now downloads its models from inkling-labs.com on first run instead of shipping them inside the app. Buying an app now lists the billing address asked for at checkout and the location we receive from it.

September 23, 2026: added how long we keep contact messages, purchase records, and analytics. Analytics is kept for as long as we run the site.

September 28, 2026: added Rivlet, whose downloads and update checks go to GitHub like Palilogy's.