Privacy Policy

If you have questions about this policy or your information, contact support@attentus.app.

This policy covers the Attentus desktop app, browser extension and website.

Screenshots and browsing information

Attentus uses an AI model running entirely on your Mac to check whether webpages relate to your focus goal.

Screenshots are processed locally in memory. Attentus does not save them as image files, include them in logs, upload them to our servers or send them to cloud AI services. Screenshot images are held while their checks are running and released afterward.

Some information from those checks remains temporarily in memory to support further checks. This can include processed image information, webpage addresses and titles, your explanations, and allow-or-block decisions. A short record of recent checks, including page addresses and titles, may also remain in memory during the session. These temporary session records are cleared when the session ends.

During a protected session, Attentus can read addresses and titles from background tabs. Screenshots are taken only of the visible page being checked. Attentus does not switch to background tabs to capture them.

Screenshots can include messages, form entries or other sensitive information visible on the page. That content is analysed locally; it is not automatically removed before analysis.

Information saved on your Mac

Attentus saves your goals, session setups, app and website rules, preferences and completed-session statistics on your Mac. It also keeps local information needed to recognise your installation and maintain trial or subscription access.

Completed-session history includes goals, session timing, outcomes and app-block counts. The app keeps up to 2,000 completed records and removes records older than 365 days when it updates that history.

Technical logs about the app’s operation may also remain locally. These are separate from screenshot processing.

The app and extension do not upload your browsing content, goals, explanations or session history. They do not send us usage analytics or crash reports. We do not sell your browsing data or use it for advertising.

If you choose to include this information in a support message, it will be shared with support.

Information processed online

Trials, accounts, subscriptions, downloads, website activity and support use online services. They handle the information described below.

Free trials. You can start a seven-day trial in the app without an account or payment card. Starting it does not create a Clerk or Stripe account. To recognise a Mac that has already used its trial, the app sends us a pseudonymous hardware code made with SHA-256. Your Mac’s raw serial number and hardware UUID never leave the Mac.

We store that code and the trial’s fixed start and end dates. Deleting local data or reinstalling does not reset the trial. If you choose to link an account later, we link the existing trial to it with only its remaining time.

Accounts and payments. If you choose to sign in, we use Clerk for account access and Stripe for linked trial and subscription records and payments. Linking an account can share your email address and account identifier with Stripe even without a payment card. Attentus and these providers process sign-in information, trial and subscription status, billing dates and payment status as needed for those services. Payment details are entered on Stripe’s pages. Attentus does not receive your full card number.

Device access. The app also creates a separate public key backed by your Mac’s secure hardware. Our servers use it to recognise authorised installations and issue a signed access ticket. The private key stays on your Mac. These access records do not include browsing content.

Downloads and connections. The app connects to Attentus services to start trials, sign in, check access and get updates. It downloads its local AI model from our file host at atentus.tech. Hosting and delivery providers can receive your IP address, request time and information about the requested resource.

Website information

We collect aggregate website activity statistics to understand how the site is used, without analytics cookies or individual visitor profiles. Our analytics respect Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track signals.

Sign-in services use cookies or similar storage. Hosting, security and font services may process your IP address and basic request information to provide their services and prevent abuse.

Support, Discord and the Windows waitlist

When you contact support, we process the contact details, messages and attachments you send. Support uses email and may use private Discord ticket threads. Your email address, subject, message and attachments may be forwarded to Discord to handle your request.

If you link your Discord account, we store its connection to your Attentus account and use your subscription status to manage community access. Discord’s privacy policy describes how Discord handles information.

If you join the Windows beta waitlist, we store your email address and signup time. Your email is encrypted in storage and accessible to authorised administrators. We use it only for Windows beta messages and will delete it from the waitlist after the beta ends. Contact support to request removal earlier.

Online retention and deletion

We retain account, trial and billing records to manage access, process payments and prevent abuse. We keep the hardware trial code and trial dates to prevent repeat trials, including after local data or an account is deleted. Some support, device and security records do not have a fixed automatic deletion date.

Website activity totals cover the current day and the previous 366 days. Older totals are removed when the analytics system is next used on a new day. Service providers may retain information under their own policies and legal requirements.

To request account deletion, email support@attentus.app. Deletion removes the main account records and requests cleanup from our sign-in and billing providers. Some information remains, including records needed to prevent revoked devices from reconnecting and records of administrative actions.

Account deletion does not automatically remove separate support messages or waitlist entries. Mention those in your request if you want them addressed.

Deleting data on your Mac

Use Delete data or Delete data & uninstall in Settings to remove saved Attentus data.

Uninstall alone keeps saved data. Moving the app to the Trash does not reliably remove it either.

Deleting local data does not delete your online account, support messages or waitlist entry. Deleting your online account does not remove data on your Mac. Neither action removes copies in your backups or operating-system logs.

Your privacy rights

Contact support to ask about, access, correct or request deletion of personal information we hold. We may need to verify your identity before acting.

Depending on where you live, you may also have rights to obtain a copy of your information, restrict or object to its use, withdraw consent where applicable, or complain to your local privacy regulator.

Online service providers may process information outside your country. Their privacy policies describe their practices. Browsing analysis takes place on your Mac.

Children

Attentus is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their personal information. Contact support if you believe a child under 13 has provided information to us.

Browser extension requirements

Our use of information received through Google APIs follows the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including its Limited Use requirements.

Changes to this policy

We will update this policy and its last-updated date when our practices change, and provide additional notice where required.