Privacy Policy
Last updated: Oct 2026
Algoasis respects your privacy. We collect as little data as possible and only use it for the purpose we clearly explain below.
What we collect
If you sign up for updates, we collect:
- Your email address
Our website also measures its visits with Google Analytics, as described under Website analytics. The Algoasis apps and browser extensions send us nothing about you: see Your Algoasis data.
That’s it. No profiles, no tracking across the web, no hidden data collection.
How we use your email
We use your email only to:
- Send updates about the Algoasis launch
- Share major product announcements related to Algoasis
We do not:
- Sell your data
- Share your email with third parties
- Use your email for advertising
- Track your behavior across other sites
Email storage
Your email is stored securely using a third-party email service provider. It is only accessible to the Algoasis team and only for the purposes described above.
Your Algoasis data
The Algoasis apps and browser extensions send us nothing. Everything you set up in Algoasis, and the usage history it keeps, is stored on your device. While you’re signed in to iCloud, Algoasis also keeps a copy in your own private iCloud database so your devices stay in step, unless you turn iCloud sync off in Settings. That database belongs to your Apple Account, and we cannot read it.
Subscriptions are sold and billed by Apple through the App Store. We never see your payment details: the app reads your subscription’s status, meaning which plan you are on and until when, from Apple on your device.
Diagnostics stay on your device too. If you export them from Settings, the file goes only where you choose to send it.
Analytics & tracking
At this stage:
- We do not use advertising trackers
- We do not build user profiles
- We do not track you across sites
Our website measures its visits with Google Analytics; see Website analytics. The Algoasis apps and browser extensions contain no analytics.
Algoasis asks other services for three things, each described below: a site’s icon (Site icons), a site’s name (Site names) and an app’s name (App names). We attach no account and no identifier for you or your device to any of them.
If this changes in the future, this policy will be updated before any new data collection begins.
Site icons
Algoasis shows each site’s own icon beside it. It asks the site itself first, at the site’s usual icon address. Some
sites publish no icon there; only for those does Algoasis ask DuckDuckGo’s icon service, icons.duckduckgo.com, for
one.
When that happens, the request carries the site’s domain name. Your device makes it directly, exactly as your browser
does for any image on a web page, so DuckDuckGo also sees your IP address, your browser’s user-agent, and any cookies
your browser already holds for DuckDuckGo. Cookies belonging to the site whose icon is being fetched are not
sent — they never leave that site. We attach nothing of our own: no page address, no referrer (the request is
marked no-referrer), no account, and no identifier for you or your device. A site that serves its own icon is never
named to the service at all.
Addresses we recognise as private are never sent: anything on your local network or under a reserved private domain
(for example .local, .internal, .lan, .home.arpa), an IP address, and any address carrying a port. That check
is a list of known private naming conventions rather than a test of whether an address can actually be reached from
the internet, so a private machine published under an ordinary public domain name would not be recognised as private.
Icons are loaded as ordinary images. Algoasis does not record which icons were requested, and no icon request reaches an Algoasis server.
Site names
When you add a site by typing its address, Algoasis fetches that site’s home page to read the name the site gives itself, so it appears in your list under that name. The request goes to the site you typed, without cookies and without a referrer, and the site sees what it sees on any visit: your IP address and your browser’s standard headers. Addresses we recognise as private, as described under Site icons, are never looked up, and neither are sites you pick from the list Algoasis suggests.
App names
Insights can list the apps you used most on your Mac. To show each one under its App Store name, Algoasis asks Apple’s
App Store lookup service, itunes.apple.com. The request names the app by its identifier (for example
com.example.app) and carries a two-letter country code taken from your language and region setting; if that
country’s store has no listing, Algoasis asks once more with the United States’ code. We attach nothing else: no
cookies, no referrer, no account, no identifier for you or your device, and nothing about how long you used the app.
Your device makes the request directly, so Apple also sees your IP address and your browser’s standard headers.
The name that comes back is saved with your Algoasis data, so an app is looked up again only after 30 days, or when you change language.
Website analytics
Our website, algoasis.com, uses Google Analytics to measure how many people visit and which pages they read. When you open a page there, your browser loads Google’s analytics script, which sets cookies on algoasis.com and sends Google the address of the page, the page that linked you to it, your IP address, and details of your browser and device. Google handles that data under its own privacy policy. We use the reports only to see how the website is used.
Google Analytics runs only on the website, never in the Algoasis apps or browser extensions. You can block it with your browser’s tracking protection or a content blocker, and the website works the same without it.
Your rights
You can:
- Unsubscribe at any time using the link in any email we send
- Request deletion of your email by contacting us
- Delete all your Algoasis data, on your device and in your iCloud, with Delete all data in the app’s Settings
Once deleted, your email is permanently removed from our systems.
Contact
If you have any questions about this policy or your data, you can contact us at:
