Privacy Policy

Last updated: 20 October 2026

We make small apps that work on your Mac. We collect as little as we can, and we never sell your data. Questions: contact@vistaar.studio.

Our apps

Desk Buddy keeps your clipboard history on your Mac. If you turn on sync, your copies travel between your Macs through your own iCloud account (Apple's private iCloud database); we have no access to it. Buddy notices which app is in front so he can react (for example, "saved that link from Safari"), but he does not read your copied text for anything other than showing it to you, and nothing is sent to us.

Pictailor resizes, crops, compresses and edits your photos on your Mac. Your photos are not uploaded anywhere.

Desk Buddy leaves password managers out of your history and never saves copies that other apps mark as private.

Neither app has an account, ads, analytics or tracking, and neither app sends your copies or photos to us.

Licence checks (website editions)

When you activate an app, it sends your licence key and a label for your Mac (its model plus a random tag, such as "MacBook Air · 7F3K"; never your Mac's name or serial number) to our payment partner, Dodo Payments, to check that the key is valid and how many Macs use it. The app checks again from time to time. Nothing else from your Mac is sent.

Mac App Store editions

If you get Desk Buddy or Pictailor from the Mac App Store, Apple handles the purchase and we never see your payment or Apple Account details. App Store editions have no licence check, so they send nothing to Dodo Payments or to us. Apple may share anonymous, aggregated sales and usage figures with developers under its own privacy policy.

When you buy from our website

Payments are handled by Dodo Payments, the merchant of record. They collect your name, email, billing details and payment information to process your order, as described in their privacy policy. We receive your email address, what you bought and your licence key, so we can send your key, help you if you lose it, and answer support requests. We do not see or store your card details.

Emails

We email you only about your purchase: your key, a lost-key reminder you ask for, or a reply to your message. If you sign up to hear about a new app, we write to you about that app and nothing else; every such email lets you unsubscribe.

This website

vistaar.studio is served by Cloudflare, which processes standard technical data (such as your IP address) to deliver and protect the site. Fonts are loaded from Google Fonts. The site stores small preferences in your browser (for example, which Buddy face you picked). It does not use advertising cookies.

We use Google Analytics on this website (not in the apps) to count visits and see which pages people read, so we can make the site better. It records pages viewed, the site you came from, an approximate location (country/city), and your device and browser type, using first-party cookies. Visitors in the EEA, UK and Switzerland are not given Analytics cookies. Google processes this data under its own privacy policy; we do not use it for advertising and do not share it with anyone else. You can block it with any content blocker or Google's opt-out add-on.

Keeping and deleting data

We keep purchase records for as long as needed for your licence, support, and tax and accounting law. You can ask us for a copy of the data we hold about you, or to correct or delete it, by writing to contact@vistaar.studio. Deleting purchase records may mean we can no longer recover a lost key for you.

Changes

If we change this policy, we'll update the date at the top. We will never start selling data or adding tracking without saying so clearly here first.