Privacy, in plain English

What the app keeps on your computer

All of this lives in the app's folder. You can open it right now, read every file with Notepad, and delete anything you don't want.

• Activity logs — the sentences you type when the app interrupts you, saved to a weekly text file.
• Your goals — the monthly, weekly and daily plans you set, saved in config.json.
• Settings — your interval, sound, severity setting and preferences.
• Your Anthropic API key, if you add one, stored in config.json so the app can call the API on your behalf. It is stored on your machine only and is never sent to me.
• Generated reports — every weekly analysis and the monthly archive.

config.json is a plain file, which means your API key is stored in plain text on your own disk — the same way most desktop developer tools store credentials. If your computer is shared, use a key with a spending limit, and remove it in Settings when you're done. I'd rather tell you this than let you find out later.

When something leaves your computer

Exactly two situations. There is no third.

• You run a weekly analysis. When you press Analyze Now, or when the scheduled Sunday analysis runs, the app sends that week's log and your goals to Anthropic's API, using your own API key, and gets the report back. It goes directly from your machine to Anthropic. It does not pass through me. If you never run an analysis, your logs never leave your computer at all.
• You activate a Pro license. The app sends your license key to Gumroad to check that it's valid. That's the key only — no logs, no goals, no activity data of any kind.

Separately, if you buy Pro, that purchase happens on Gumroad's website, not in the app. Gumroad collects your email and payment details as the seller of record and handles the payment and any tax. I receive your email address and the fact that you bought a licence. I never receive your card details.

What I can't see

This is the part worth being concrete about. I do not operate a server that receives your data. The app has no account system, no sign-in, no sync, and no phone-home check. It doesn't report that you installed it, doesn't report that you opened it, and doesn't report that you stopped using it.

That means I cannot read your logs, cannot see your goals, cannot see your reports, and cannot tell you what you did last Tuesday if you delete the file. It also means I can't recover anything for you. That tradeoff is deliberate.

The two companies involved

When the situations in section 2 happen, your data is handled by those companies under their own policies:

• Anthropic — receives your weekly log and goals when you run an analysis. Because you're using your own API key, this happens under your account and your agreement with them. Their policy: anthropic.com/legal/privacy.
• Gumroad — handles the purchase and the licence check. Their policy: gumroad.com/privacy.

If either of those matters to you, read their policies before you run an analysis or buy a licence. I'd rather point you at them than summarise them badly.

This website

This website sets no cookies, runs no analytics, and does not track you across the internet. It loads a web font from Google Fonts, which means Google's servers see your IP address when the page loads — the same as on most websites. Nothing else is loaded from anywhere else.

Deleting your data

Because it's all just files, you don't need to ask me for anything:

• Read or edit it — open any file in logs/ or reports/.
• Delete it — delete the files, or uninstall the app. There is nothing to delete on my side, because I never had it.
• Stop anything leaving — turn off the weekly analysis in Settings, or just remove your API key.
• Data held by Anthropic or Gumroad — contact them directly; they hold it, not me.

If you're in the UK, EU, or another region with data rights, the practical answer is that I hold almost nothing to give you: your email address, if you bought a licence. Ask me and I'll delete it.

How long things are kept

Your files stay on your computer until you delete them. The app never expires them, rotates them, or cleans them up behind your back. Anthropic and Gumroad keep what they keep under their own policies.

Children

Whatchu Doing is a general productivity tool for adults and is not directed at children under 13. I don't knowingly collect anything from anyone, of any age.

If this changes

The date at the top changes whenever this page does. Anything that materially changes what leaves your computer will also appear in the release notes, because a policy update you didn't read isn't consent.

Asking me about any of this

Email me — the address is on the contact page. A real person reads it, because there's only one of us.