● Privacy
Your desk stays yours
dustyPad runs on your Mac and your tablet, over your own Wi-Fi. No account, and the app doesn't track you. This page lists everything that does leave your devices.
Last updated: November 13, 2026
The app
- Your layout, settings and license stay on your Mac. Your tablet only talks to your Mac over your local network, after you pair it with a one-time code.
- Photos for the slideshow are resized on your Mac and only go to your paired tablets.
- The app has no analytics and no telemetry.
What the app sends over the internet
- Weather: the city you search for, and then its coordinates, go to Open-Meteo to get the forecast.
- License: when you activate Pro, your license key is checked with Gumroad, and again about once a week.
- Updates: the app asks GitHub for the latest version (sending its own version number) and downloads updates from there. You can turn automatic downloads off in Settings.
- Buy Pro: if you click a Buy Pro button in the app, the link to dustypad.com says which screen it came from, your theme, the trial status, the app version, the language and the size of your layout. Never your name, your email, your files or what your buttons do.
This website
- dustypad.com is hosted on Cloudflare and loads its fonts from Google Fonts.
- We use PostHog, through our own address (p.dustypad.com) and without cookies, to see how the site is used: visits, clicks, downloads, buy clicks, page speed and anonymous session recordings, with anything you type hidden. Your IP address is used to estimate your country.
- No ad trackers, no Facebook or Google pixels.
Buying Pro
- Payments are handled by Gumroad. We receive your email, your country and your license key, so we can help you and handle refunds. We never see your card. See Gumroad's privacy policy.
Social media and the giveaway
- If you message us on Instagram, TikTok or X, we see what those apps show us: your username and your messages.
- In the giveaway, we only use your photo if you reply YES, and we always credit you.
Your choices
- Write to [email protected] to see or delete what we have about you (purchases, messages). We reply within 30 days.
- We don't sell or share your data, and we don't run ads based on it.
- If this page changes, the date at the top changes too.