Privacy policy

This policy explains what the Woolly Desk app for macOS (the "app") and this website do with information. The app is made by an independent developer. Contact: vielindevelopment@gmail.com.

1. Information the app keeps on your Mac

The app saves your farm (sheep, names, buildings, coins, wool) and your settings on your Mac, in ~/Library/Application Support/SheepFarm/ and in the app's standard preferences. This information never leaves your Mac. We cannot see it. You can delete it at any time: delete that folder, or use Settings → Farm → Start a new farm.

2. Real weather and location (optional)

Real weather is off by default. If you turn it on in Settings → Weather:

• You can type a city. Apple's geocoding service in macOS turns the city name into map coordinates.
• Or you can leave the city empty. Then macOS asks for your permission to use Location Services, and the app uses your approximate location.
• The app rounds the coordinates to about 10 km and sends only these rounded numbers to a weather service to get the current weather: Apple WeatherKit or Open-Meteo. No name, email or other identifier goes with the request.
• The app keeps the last weather on your Mac, so the farm works offline.

These services receive your request like any internet request, including your IP address. Their own privacy policies apply. You can turn real weather off at any time, and you can remove the location permission in System Settings → Privacy & Security → Location Services.

3. Finder permission (optional)

If you allow autumn leaves on your desktop icons, macOS asks once if the app may control Finder. The app asks Finder only for the positions of the icons on your desktop. It does not read, change or send your files. You can turn this feature off in Settings → Desktop, and remove the permission in System Settings → Privacy & Security → Automation.

4. What the app does not do

• It has no accounts, ads, analytics, crash-reporting services or tracking.
• It does not sell or share information with anyone.
• It does not record your screen, your keystrokes or what you do in other apps. It only sees where your mouse pointer is, so sheep can react to it.
• It has no in-app purchases.

5. When you write to support

If you email us, we receive your email address and what you write. We use it only to answer you and to fix problems. We do not add you to a mailing list. Ask us at any time and we delete your messages.

6. This website

• The website uses no cookies.
• The website counts visits with Umami, a privacy-friendly analytics service. It counts which pages people open, where they come from (for example, a search engine), how far they scroll and how many people click “Get Woolly Desk”. It stores no cookies and collects no personal information. It does not follow you to other websites, and nobody can identify you from it. See the Umami privacy policy.
• It is hosted on GitHub Pages. GitHub may log technical data such as your IP address for security. See the GitHub Privacy Statement.
• The fonts come from Google Fonts, so your browser connects to Google to load them. See the Google Privacy Policy.

7. Children

Woolly Desk is suitable for all ages. The app does not collect personal information from anyone, including children.

8. Your rights

Because we do not collect personal information through the app, there is usually nothing for us to show, change or delete. For emails you sent us, write to vielindevelopment@gmail.com to see or delete them.

9. Changes

If this policy changes, we update this page and the date at the top. Important changes are also mentioned in the app's release notes.