🔥 Heat Watch Lite Privacy Policy

Effective Date: October 9, 2026

In short: Heat Watch Lite collects nothing, has no servers and never connects to the internet. Everything it measures and stores stays on your Mac.

1. Overview

OsiVibeCode LLC, an Arizona limited liability company, publishes Heat Watch Lite, a macOS menu bar utility from the Mac App Store that shows how hot and busy your Mac is and alerts you when it stays busy, slows down to cool off, or runs low on memory or disk space. This policy explains what the app reads and stores. There is no account, no sign-in, no analytics, no advertising and no crash reporting.

2. What Heat Watch Lite Reads

Heat Watch Lite runs inside the macOS App Sandbox and reads only figures for the whole Mac: overall CPU and GPU use, memory pressure, macOS's heat state, battery charge and health, apps keeping the Mac awake, total network speed and free disk space. It cannot see what other apps are doing, read their files or close them.

3. Data Stored Locally

Heat Watch Lite keeps its data in its sandbox container, at ~/Library/Containers/com.osivibecode.heatwatch.lite/. It is never transmitted anywhere:

Settings: units, alert thresholds, what the menu bar shows and similar choices.
History: up to 24 hours of the readings above, so the charts survive a restart. Older readings are discarded automatically.
Logs: the alerts it showed you and the heat log.

If you choose Export History as CSV…, Heat Watch Lite writes a file to the place you pick, and only there.

4. Network & Updates

Heat Watch Lite makes no network connections. Updates come only through the Mac App Store.

5. Third-Party Services

None. Heat Watch Lite contains no advertising SDK, no analytics library and no cloud service. Nothing about you or your Mac leaves it.

6. Permissions

Notifications — optional, for alerts.
Open at login — optional. Managed by macOS in System Settings ▸ General ▸ Login Items.

It does not ask for Accessibility, Screen Recording, your location, camera, microphone, contacts or files.

7. Data Retention & Deletion

Because everything is stored locally, we have no access to it and nothing to delete on our side. To remove it all, move Heat Watch Lite to the Trash; macOS removes its container with it, or you can delete the container folder above.

8. Children's Privacy

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

9. Changes to This Policy

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

10. Contact Information

Questions about privacy in Heat Watch Lite:
Email: osi.vibe.code@gmail.com