Privacy Policy

Last updated: 2026-06-20

StandCoach is a menu-bar app that helps you build a standing-desk habit. It is designed to keep your data on your Mac. This policy explains the one optional exception — anonymous usage analytics — and exactly what it does and does not collect.

The short version

Everything works offline. Your schedule, standing history, streaks, and desk pairing are stored only in macOS UserDefaults on your own Mac. They are never uploaded.
Analytics is OFF by default. Nothing leaves your Mac unless you turn on “Share anonymous usage data” in the popover.
No personal data, ever. No name, email, account, precise location, browsing history, keystrokes, screen contents, or health data is collected.

What we collect (only if you opt in)

If — and only if — you enable analytics, StandCoach sends anonymous, aggregate-level usage events through Google Firebase Analytics. These events describe how the app's features are used, for example:

App launched; a sit or stand period started/finished; a stand prompt was shown, completed, or snoozed.
A week was advanced, repeated, or reset; a rest day was taken or skipped.
A setting was changed (notification style, week-start day); the standing-desk integration was enabled, connected, or commanded to move.

Alongside these events, Firebase automatically records a randomly generated app instance identifier and coarse technical context (device model, macOS version, and an approximate region derived from your IP address, which Firebase does not expose to us at a finer grain). This is standard, non-identifying analytics metadata.

What we never collect

Your name, email address, or any account — StandCoach has no sign-in.
Precise location or your IP address (Firebase derives only a coarse region; the raw IP is not retained by us).
The actual heights of your desk, or any health/fitness measurements.
Anything you type, any screen contents, or any other app's data.
We do not sell or share data for advertising. Ad personalization is disabled in the app's Firebase configuration.

Your control

Toggle “Share anonymous usage data” off at any time in the popover. Turning it off stops all collection immediately.
Because the data is anonymous and not tied to an identity, there is no personal profile to access or delete.

Bluetooth

If you enable the optional Standing desk feature, StandCoach communicates with your desk over local Bluetooth Low Energy to raise and lower it. This is a direct, on-device radio link — no desk data is sent over the internet.

Data processors

When analytics is enabled, usage events are processed by Google as part of Firebase Analytics. See Google's Firebase Privacy and Security documentation for how Google handles this data.

Contact

Questions about this policy: elad.gelman@gmail.com

Changes

If this policy changes materially, the “Last updated” date above will change and the new version will ship with the corresponding app update.