Privacy

What never leaves your Mac

Nothing about your contacts, your messages, your recipients, your send logs or their phone numbers is ever sent to us or to anyone else. The app reads Contacts and the Messages database on your Mac, and sends texts through the Messages app. That is all local.

What the app sends to us

OneText talks to our server at api.onetext.app to start the trial and to check or activate a license. Those calls send only:

• A hashed device ID. It is a one-way hash of an identifier of your Mac, so we cannot read your Mac's identifier from it.
• Your Mac's model identifier, for example MacBookPro18,3. This fills the list of your devices.
• The app version.
• Your license key, when you activate or check a license. The license record on our server holds the email address you used at checkout.
• Your email, only when you ask for your key to be sent again.

When you download OneText, our server adds one line to a count: the time, the version and the country the request came from. It does not keep your IP address or anything that identifies you.

Cloudflare hosts our server, so it sees the IP address of every request, as any web host does. When someone asks for a key to be sent again, our server also keeps a counter tied to that IP address (the first 64 bits of an IPv6 address) for up to 24 hours, along with a one-way hash of the email, to limit abuse. We do not store IP addresses with licenses, devices or purchases.

Services we use

• Stripe takes your payment. We receive your email and the payment details Stripe gives us, but not your card number.
• Postmark sends the email with your key.
• Cloudflare hosts this website and our server.

This website has no analytics and no tracking scripts.

Questions

Write to humans@sparrowsoft.co.