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Privacy Policy

Last updated: 2026-06-02

Downbar is a macOS menu-bar app that monitors public status pages. Your privacy is simple to describe because Downbar collects nothing.

What Downbar collects

Nothing. Downbar has no analytics, no telemetry, no crash reporting, no advertising, and no user accounts. Nothing about you, your device, or your usage is collected, stored off-device, or transmitted to the developer or to any third party.

Network activity

Downbar makes outbound HTTPS requests only to the public status pages you choose to monitor — the same pages anyone can open in a web browser. These requests are sent directly from your Mac to those status providers; they do not pass through any server operated by the developer. Downbar has no backend.

Each request is an ordinary status check (for example, fetching a Statuspage.io summary.json) and contains no personal information beyond what any HTTPS request to a public website inherently includes.

Local data

Your list of monitored services and your preferences (poll interval, notification settings) are stored locally on your Mac in standard app storage (UserDefaults). This data never leaves your device.

Notifications

Notifications are generated and shown locally by macOS. They are not sent through any push server or third party.

Children

Downbar does not collect data from anyone, including children.

This website

Everything above describes the Downbar app. This website (downbar.app) is separate and uses Google Analytics to measure aggregate visits — this involves cookies and your IP address, handled by Google under their privacy policy. The app itself contains no analytics and never loads this or any other tracker.

Changes

If this policy ever changes, the updated version will be published here with a new "last updated" date.

Contact

Questions: ntarasiuk@gmail.com