Privacy Policy

Last updated: July 3, 2026

Short version: Marquee does not collect, transmit, or store any of your data unless you explicitly send it. The only data that ever leaves your Mac is feedback you type and submit yourself, and the app's periodic check for updates. There is no account and no analytics in the current release.

What Marquee accesses on your Mac

To build and update its per-display bars, Marquee uses the macOS Accessibility API to read:

Window titles, positions, and sizes of your open windows
Which window is currently active/focused
Which application owns each window

This data is used only to render the bar and perform the action you request (raise, minimize, restore, close, maximize). It is processed entirely in memory on your Mac and is never written to disk beyond your own preferences, never transmitted over a network, and never shared with anyone, including us.

What Marquee stores

Your preferences (bar height, auto-hide timing, display mode, and similar settings) are stored locally via macOS's standard UserDefaults mechanism, scoped to your own user account on your own Mac. Nothing here leaves your machine.

Network access

Marquee makes exactly two kinds of network requests, both to infrastructure we control:

Update checks (automatic): the app periodically fetches a small update feed from this website to learn whether a newer version exists. This request contains no personal data and nothing about your windows or settings.
Feedback (only when you send it): if you use "Send Feedback...", the text you typed is stored in a write-only database (Google Cloud Firestore) that only we can read. If you leave the "Include Marquee version and macOS version" toggle on, those two version numbers are attached. Nothing else — no window titles, no app names, no identifiers — is included, and nothing is sent unless you press Send.

Future analytics (not active today)

A future version may add an optional, off-by-default toggle to share anonymous, aggregate feature-usage counts (for example, which display mode is most commonly used) to help prioritize development. If this ships, it will:

Be disabled by default — you would have to turn it on yourself
Never include window titles, application names, or any content read via Accessibility
Be described here, updated, before it ships in any release

Payment and licensing (Pro features, when available)

If a paid Pro unlock becomes available, purchases will be handled by a third-party payment processor, not by us directly. That processor's own privacy policy will govern the payment information you provide to them; Marquee itself only stores the license key needed to unlock the feature, locally on your Mac.

Contact

Questions about this policy: pabromitis@gmail.com