What Pauselet knows about you

Applies to the Pauselet macOS app and this website · Last updated 12 August 2026

Nothing. Pauselet has no account, no sync and no network code in it at all. It cannot send your reminders anywhere because it has no way to send anything anywhere.

What follows is the long version, because “we don't collect anything” is what every app says and it should be possible to check. Pauselet is open source, so you can: read the code and confirm every claim on this page.

Data the app collects

None. Pauselet does not collect, transmit, sell, share or store personal information on any server. There is no analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising identifier, no third-party SDK, and no telemetry of any kind — including no anonymous or aggregated usage statistics.

In App Store Connect terms, Pauselet's data disclosure is Data Not Collected.

Data the app stores on your Mac

Pauselet keeps what you type into it, so that it still knows your reminders after a restart. That is:

Your reminders — title, message, icon, schedule, volume and any Spotify playlist link you paste in
Your preferences — quiet hours, behaviour settings and your default playlist
Your history — when each reminder fired and whether you completed, snoozed or dismissed it, which is what the adherence view is built from

All of it lives in one plain JSON file on your own disk:

~/Library/Application Support/Pauselet/data.json

The Mac App Store build is sandboxed, so there the same file sits inside the app's own container, under ~/Library/Containers/. Either way it is a readable, editable text file that belongs to you. You can open it, back it up, or delete it.

Nobody else can read it — not us, not anyone — because it never leaves the machine. If a backup tool such as Time Machine or iCloud Drive is backing up your Mac, that file is included in the backup like any other file, under whatever privacy terms that service has. That is your backup, not ours.

Permissions Pauselet asks for

macOS will ask you to grant two things. Both are optional, both are revocable in System Settings, and declining either leaves the app working.

Notifications: So the Normal and Important volumes can use real macOS notifications. If you decline, those two fall back to a card Pauselet draws itself — nothing is silently dropped. Change it later in System Settings → Notifications.
Automation (Apple Events), only if you set up music: So a reminder can start a playlist. This controls the Spotify app already installed on your Mac; it is a local message between two apps on your machine, not a web request, and it happens only when you have chosen a playlist. Pauselet asks at the moment you save a playlist, rather than an hour later mid-reminder. Change it later in System Settings → Privacy & Security → Automation.

Spotify

If you paste a playlist link into Pauselet, that link is stored in your own data file and used to tell the Spotify app on your Mac what to play. Pauselet does not connect to Spotify's servers, does not use a Spotify account, API key or login, and never sees your Spotify credentials or listening history.

Spotify itself is a separate company's app with its own privacy policy, and what it does once it is playing is between you and them.

This website

This site is static pages with no accounts, no sign-in, no comments, no contact form and no advertising. It sets no cookies and runs no analytics — nothing here is tracking you across sites or building a profile.

Two things are still worth stating plainly, because they are true of almost every website and are usually left unsaid:

Hosting. The site is served by Google Firebase Hosting, which keeps standard server request logs — including visitors' IP addresses — as part of delivering and protecting the service. We do not use those logs to identify anyone.
Fonts. The page's typefaces load from Google Fonts, which means your browser makes a request to fonts.gstatic.com and Google sees your IP address for that request. Nothing on this site passes Google anything about you beyond that.

The one thing this site does remember is whether you chose the light or dark theme, kept in your own browser's local storage under pauselet-theme. It never leaves your browser, and clearing your browser data removes it.

Children

Pauselet is suitable for all ages and collects no data from anyone, including children under 13.

Deleting your data

Delete a reminder in the app and it is gone. Drag Pauselet to the Trash and delete the folder above, and everything it ever stored is gone. There is no server-side copy to request, because there is no server.

Changes to this policy

If Pauselet ever gains a feature that changes any of the above, this page will be updated before that version ships, and the date at the top will change. Previous versions are in the site's version history.

Contact

Questions about this policy, or about anything the app does, can go to support@myaccessibility.ai, or as an issue on the GitHub repository.