Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how Consalik AB collects, uses, discloses, and protects information when you use Hindsight’s website, downloads, macOS application, license activation, updates, documentation, and related services, collectively the Services.

Hindsight is designed to keep your timeline on your Mac. The app captures, processes, transcribes, indexes, searches, and stores your history locally unless you choose to send information to us or a third-party service yourself.

Information Hindsight Processes Locally

Depending on your settings and macOS permissions, the Hindsight app may process information such as:

• Screen frames and thumbnails captured from your Mac.
• Text detected from screen captures through local OCR.
• Microphone audio, system audio, and local audio transcripts when audio capture is enabled.
• App names, app bundle identifiers, window titles, timestamps, browser URLs, and similar context.
• Search queries, settings, app exclusions, retention preferences, and local usage state.

This timeline data is stored locally on your Mac. We do not receive your screen images, audio, OCR text, transcripts, window titles, browser URLs, search queries, or local history from the app unless you choose to send that information to us, for example in a support request.

Local Storage and Security

Hindsight stores local history in encrypted local storage. Encryption keys are stored in macOS Keychain. Local data remains under your control on your Mac, subject to your device security, operating system account, backups, file sharing settings, malware protection, and anyone else who can access your Mac.

You can delete local history from Hindsight’s settings. You can also delete downloaded transcription models when you want to reclaim disk space. Reducing the retention period may remove older local history automatically.

Private Browsing and App Exclusions

Hindsight can skip supported private browser windows, including Chrome Incognito and Safari Private windows, when private browsing exclusion is enabled. This depends on macOS Accessibility permission and browser window context being available.

Hindsight also includes app exclusions so selected apps do not appear in your timeline. Some sensitive apps, such as password managers, may be excluded by default. You should review exclusions before using Hindsight in environments that contain confidential, regulated, workplace, or shared-device information.

Information We Collect From You

We may collect information you provide directly, such as:

• Your name, email address, messages, attachments, and diagnostic details when you contact support.
• Feedback, feature requests, bug reports, or other communications you send us.
• Information needed to respond to privacy, legal, billing, or security requests.

Please avoid sending screenshots, audio, transcripts, logs, or other sensitive material unless it is necessary for your request.

Purchases and License Activation

Purchases, license keys, receipts, refunds, taxes, and payment processing may be handled by Lemon Squeezy or another merchant of record. We may receive purchase and license information needed to activate the app, validate license status, prevent abuse, provide support, and keep purchase records.

The Hindsight app may contact the license provider to activate, validate, refresh, or deactivate a license. The app may store your license key and activation information locally in macOS Keychain.

Crash Reporting and Diagnostics

If enabled in a release build, Hindsight may use Sentry for crash reporting and limited performance diagnostics. Hindsight configures Sentry to avoid sending screenshots, view hierarchy, logs, network breadcrumbs, automatic personal identifiers, device hostnames, and user records.

Diagnostic events may include technical information such as app version, build number, operating system version, environment, crash details, stack traces, and limited performance timing for selected app operations. We use this information to find, debug, and fix reliability and performance problems.

Website, Downloads, and Updates

When you visit the website, download Hindsight, or check for updates, our hosting providers, GitHub, Sparkle update infrastructure, or similar providers may process technical information such as IP address, browser or app user agent, request time, requested URL, download metadata, and server logs.

Hindsight uses this information to provide the website, downloads, release notes, update feeds, security checks, troubleshooting, fraud prevention, and basic service operations.

How We Use Information

We use information we collect or receive to:

• Provide, maintain, update, secure, and troubleshoot the Services.
• Activate licenses, process purchases, prevent abuse, and provide customer support.
• Investigate bugs, crashes, performance issues, fraud, security events, and policy violations.
• Respond to support, privacy, legal, and billing requests.
• Comply with applicable law and enforce our Terms of Service.

How We Share Information

We do not sell your personal information. We do not use your local Hindsight timeline to train AI models. We may share information with service providers that help operate the Services, such as payment processing, license validation, crash reporting, hosting, downloads, analytics of server operations, email, or support.

We may also disclose information if required by law, to protect rights and safety, to investigate abuse or security incidents, or as part of a merger, acquisition, financing, or sale of assets, subject to appropriate protections where required.

Retention

Local Hindsight timeline data is retained according to your app settings and remains on your Mac unless you delete it, reduce the retention period, uninstall the app in a way that removes app data, or otherwise remove the files from your device.

We retain information we collect from support, purchases, licenses, diagnostics, logs, and legal requests only as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy, unless a longer period is required or permitted by law.

Your Choices and Rights

You can control many privacy choices directly on your Mac, including:

• Granting or revoking macOS Screen Recording, Accessibility, Microphone, and notification permissions.
• Turning screen or audio capture on or off in Hindsight.
• Adding app exclusions and private browser exclusions.
• Changing local retention settings, clearing local history, or deleting downloaded transcription models.
• Removing Hindsight from your Mac and deleting local app data.

Depending on where you live, you may also have legal rights to access, correct, delete, export, restrict, or object to certain personal information we hold about you. We may need to verify your request before acting on it.

Children

The Services are not directed to children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided personal information to us, contact us so we can take appropriate action.

International Transfers

We and our providers may process information in countries other than the country where you live. Where required, we use appropriate safeguards for international transfers.

Changes

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The updated date will show when the policy last changed. If a change materially affects how we handle personal information, we may provide additional notice where practical.

Contact

Questions or privacy requests should be sent to Consalik AB using the support contact listed in the app, on the website, or on your purchase receipt.