Privacy, plainly.

Who this is

Tiidy is made and run by me, Petar Ceklic, a product designer in Perth, Western Australia. When this page says "I" or "me", that's who it means. If you have a question about your privacy, email hello@tiidy.app and I'll answer it myself.

What Tiidy can see on your Mac

Tiidy asks for one permission: Accessibility. It uses it to find the icons in your menu bar and to show or hide them. For icons you've tucked away, it also reads their text label and width, so it can pop one out when it changes, like a finished upload.

It never asks for Screen Recording, and it never sees the picture on your screen or inside an icon.

To notice an iPhone Live Activity, Tiidy checks how busy one macOS helper is. To show which menu bar apps are heavy, it reads their memory and processor use. Neither needs a permission, and neither leaves your Mac.

If you used Bartender, Ice or Vanilla before, setup reads their settings once to fill in your first layout. It never changes them.

What stays on your Mac

These are stored on your Mac and nowhere else:

• Your layout. Which icons are In the bar, Tucked or Buried.
• Your preferences. Everything you set in Settings.
• Click history. When you last clicked each icon, and on which days. Tiidy uses it only to suggest tidying, such as tucking an icon you haven't clicked in four days. It never leaves your Mac.
• Your trial and licence. Kept in your Mac's Keychain, so reinstalling Tiidy doesn't restart the trial or lose your key.

Delete Tiidy and its preferences, and that's the end of it. There's no copy anywhere else.

Your layout file

In Settings, Export writes a .tiidy file so you can take your layout to another Mac. It holds your sections and preferences. It never includes click history. The file goes wherever you save it, and Tiidy doesn't send it anywhere.

Update checks

Once a day, Tiidy asks whether there's a new version by fetching https://tiidy.app/appcast.xml. It uses Sparkle, the standard open-source updater for Mac apps, with system profiling turned off, so no information about your Mac is sent.

As with any web request, the server that hosts tiidy.app sees your IP address, and the request names the app and its version. If there's an update, it downloads from tiidy.app too.

Your licence

When you enter a licence key, Tiidy activates it with Lemon Squeezy's licence service at api.lemonsqueezy.com. After that it checks the key now and then, about once a week, so a refunded or deactivated key stops working. Here is everything it sends:

Lemon Squeezy also sees your IP address, as with any web request. Deactivating this Mac in Settings frees its slot. During the free trial, nothing is sent at all.

Buying Tiidy

Purchases are handled by Lemon Squeezy, the merchant of record. They take your payment, work out the tax and send your receipt and licence key. They process your payment and tax details under their own privacy policy.

Tiidy never sees your card details. I can see the order details Lemon Squeezy shares with sellers, like your name, email address and country, and I use them only to help with your licence, a refund or a question you've asked.

This website

tiidy.app sets no cookies and has no ads or trackers. It counts visits with Umami, a privacy-friendly analytics tool that Petar runs himself. Umami records the page you opened, the site that sent you, and your browser, device type and country. It doesn't use cookies, doesn't store your IP address and can't follow you to other sites. The counts are only seen by Petar, to learn which pages are useful.

To be plain about it: the fonts come from Google Fonts, and the home page loads one small physics script from cdnjs, which Cloudflare runs. Your browser fetches these directly, so Google and Cloudflare see your IP address, as they do on any site that uses them. The site and the Umami server are hosted on Railway, which sees it too, with each page you open.

If you email me

I'll use your email address and what you write only to reply and help. I won't add you to a mailing list or pass it on.

Your rights, and Australian law

Tiidy is made in Australia, and I follow the Australian Privacy Principles in the Privacy Act 1988. In plain terms: I collect only what I need, I tell you why, I keep it safe, and you can ask to see or correct anything I hold about you. Since the app holds nothing about you, that's usually just your order record and any emails.

To ask for a copy, a correction or a deletion, or to make a complaint, email hello@tiidy.app. I'll reply within 30 days, usually much sooner. If you're not happy with my answer, you can contact the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at oaic.gov.au.

Wherever you live, you can ask me the same things and I'll help in the same way.

If this changes

If Tiidy ever needs to send something new, I'll update this page and its date before that version ships, and say so in the changelog. This version took effect on 27 September 2026.