Privacy policy

Who is responsible

Pomeroy is developed by its founder, Joe Saunderson. For privacy questions, contact hello@pomeroy.app.

Information handled on your Mac

When you ask it to, Pomeroy reads information from Mail, Calendar, Reminders, Notes, Contacts, Messages, Maps, Shortcuts and Weather. It processes that information on your Mac and does not send it to Pomeroy or to a Pomeroy server. Pomeroy has no user accounts.

Pomeroy can also answer an assistant on a local address on your Mac, for assistants that cannot start a program. That address is off until you switch it on, answers only on your Mac, and refuses every other network interface. Pomeroy embeds no tunnel and operates no relay, so it opens no route to your Mac from the internet. If you choose to put your own tunnel in front of that address, that is your arrangement with whoever provides it, and the information Pomeroy returns then travels over it. What can reach Pomeroy, and how the address is guarded, is set out in the documentation and, in full, on what leaves your Mac.

Two pages state the whole of this in detail, and neither is marketing copy: a test reads each of them and fails if the page and the code disagree. What leaves your Mac lists every request Pomeroy makes and everything in it. What Pomeroy asks macOS for lists every permission it requests, and the two it will never ask for.

Pomeroy returns the results you request to the AI assistant that asked. That assistant’s maker may then receive and handle those results under its own privacy policy: for Claude, that is Anthropic’s privacy policy. You should not ask your assistant to access information you are not entitled to use.

Information sent by the app

Pomeroy sends up to four types of usage event to PostHog: installation completed, first successful answer, free allowance reached, and licence activated. These events include the app version and a random identifier created for that installation. They do not include content from your Mac apps, your licence key, a hardware identifier, your Mac model, or your Mac’s name. The identifier makes the events pseudonymous, not anonymous.

These events are used to understand whether people who install Pomeroy are able to use it and whether they later buy it. They begin after the setup window has been closed and cannot currently be disabled. Deleting Pomeroy’s settings removes the local installation identifier, but does not delete events already sent.

Like any internet service, PostHog receives the IP address from which a request arrives. Pomeroy instructs PostHog not to store that address with the event or use it for geolocation.

When you activate, validate, or deactivate a licence, Pomeroy sends the licence key and an activation label or activation identifier to Lemon Squeezy. Pomeroy also checks pomeroy.app for signed software updates. Automatic update checks can be disabled in Settings under General.

Website visits and purchases

This website is hosted by Vercel, so Vercel receives the information ordinarily sent when your browser requests a web page, such as your IP address and browser details. The website does not create a Pomeroy account.

The website uses PostHog to count visits, page views, clicks, and downloads, and to understand whether people who download Pomeroy go on to install and buy it. On your first visit a cookie is set holding a random identifier, so that your visits read as one visitor rather than several. The identifier is not connected to a name or an email address. Like any internet service, PostHog receives the IP address from which a request arrives. When you download Pomeroy, the website also records your IP address and browser details with the download event, so the download can be placed in a country and told apart from automated crawlers.

The documentation at pomeroy.app/docs is served by Mintlify rather than by this website, and Mintlify receives the information ordinarily sent when your browser requests a page from it. Those pages count visits into the same PostHog project, so a visit there is counted the same way as a visit here. Nothing records what a page says or what you type into its search: session recording is switched off.

Purchases are processed by Lemon Squeezy as merchant of record. Lemon Squeezy handles the contact and payment information you provide at checkout under its privacy policy. Pomeroy does not directly collect card details.

Service providers and legal basis

Pomeroy uses PostHog for the usage events and website analytics described above, Lemon Squeezy for purchases and licensing, and Vercel for website hosting. Read the privacy policies for PostHog, Lemon Squeezy, and Vercel for details of how they handle information, including international transfers.

Where data protection law requires a legal basis, licence checks are necessary to provide a paid licence. Pomeroy relies on legitimate interests to maintain the app and measure whether people who install it go on to buy it. You may object to processing based on legitimate interests.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, or object to the use of your personal information, and to complain to your local data protection authority. Contact hello@pomeroy.app to make a request. Because Pomeroy does not connect the random installation identifier to your identity, it may not be possible to locate your usage events without information from the Mac that sent them.

Children and changes

Pomeroy is not directed at children under 16. This policy may be updated as the product or its data handling changes. The latest version will be published on this page with a new date.