🔥 Heat Watch Privacy Policy

Effective Date: October 9, 2026

1. Overview

OsiVibeCode LLC, an Arizona limited liability company, publishes Heat Watch, a free macOS menu bar utility that shows how hot and busy your Mac is, explains which app is responsible, and alerts you when something keeps it working hard. This policy explains what the app reads, what it stores and what it does not. There is no account, no sign-in, no analytics, no advertising and no crash reporting.

2. What Heat Watch Reads

To show its figures, Heat Watch reads the following on your Mac, every few seconds, while it runs:

• Running processes: the name of each app and process, and how much CPU, GPU, memory and power it uses. It never reads what an app is doing, its windows or its files.
• Hardware sensors: chip temperature, overall GPU use, memory pressure, battery charge and health, and macOS's heat state.
• Network and disk totals: how fast the Mac is downloading and uploading overall, and how much free disk space is left. Never what is sent, to whom, or which files are on the disk.

3. Data Stored Locally

Heat Watch keeps what it stores on your Mac. None of it is ever transmitted:

• Settings: units, alert thresholds, what the menu bar shows and similar choices, in ~/Library/Preferences/com.osivibecode.heatwatch.plist.
• History: up to 24 hours of the readings above, so the charts survive a restart.
• Logs: the alerts Heat Watch showed you, the heat log, and the busiest apps' recent use, including their names.

History and logs live in ~/Library/Application Support/HeatWatch/. Older readings are discarded automatically.

If you choose Export History as CSV…, Heat Watch writes a file to the place you pick. What you do with that file is up to you.

4. Update Checks

Heat Watch checks for updates using the open-source Sparkle framework. About once a day it downloads a small list of available versions from osivibecode.github.io, and, if you choose to install an update, the new version from github.com.

• What is sent: an ordinary web request, which names the app and its version. No identifier, no system profile and none of the readings above is included.
• Who sees it: GitHub, which hosts the files, receives your IP address as it would for any download. We do not receive or keep these logs.
• Turning it off: Heat Watch ▸ Settings ▸ "Check for updates automatically". With it off, Heat Watch connects only when you choose Check for Updates….

5. Third-Party Services

Heat Watch contains no advertising SDK, no analytics library and no cloud service. The only outside service involved is GitHub, which hosts the updates (section 4).

6. Permissions

• Notifications — optional, for alerts. If macOS doesn't allow them, Heat Watch shows its own banner instead.
• Open at login — optional. Managed by macOS in System Settings ▸ General ▸ Login Items.

Heat Watch does not ask for Accessibility, Screen Recording, Full Disk Access, your location, camera, microphone, contacts or files.

7. Quitting Apps

Heat Watch can quit an app or stop Gradle daemons, but only when you choose to and after you confirm. It never ends anything on its own, and never offers to quit parts of macOS.

8. Data Retention & Deletion

Because everything is stored on your Mac, we have no access to it and nothing to delete on our side. To remove it all:

• Delete ~/Library/Application Support/HeatWatch/ and ~/Library/Preferences/com.osivibecode.heatwatch.plist.
• Move Heat Watch to the Trash.

9. Children's Privacy

Heat Watch is a general-purpose desktop utility and collects no data from anyone, including children under 13.

10. Changes to This Policy

If a future version of Heat Watch ever collects anything, this page will be updated before that version ships, and the change will be described in the app's release notes.

11. Contact Information

Questions about privacy in Heat Watch:
OsiVibeCode LLC, Arizona, United States
Email: osi.vibe.code@gmail.com