Privacy Policy

Who we are

ScreenWright is made by Grizzly Mining Company LLC, a Montana limited liability company (“we”, “us”), P.O. Box 321, Thompson Falls, MT 59873, USA. We're responsible for the personal information described here. For your purchase itself, Paddle is responsible too; see Buying ScreenWright.

The app, on your Mac

ScreenWright connects your Mac to your iPhone or iPad, over USB or over your own Wi-Fi network. Through that connection it reads the home screen layout, the list of installed apps, app icons, and the device's name, model, iOS version and identifier (UDID). It uses them to show you your home screen and to write your changes back.

All of that stays between your Mac and your device. Snapshots, saved layouts and settings are files on your Mac, under ~/Library/Application Support/ScreenWright/. They never reach our servers, and nothing uploads them.

The app has no accounts, no sign-in, no analytics, no crash reporting and no advertising.

Update checks

ScreenWright uses Sparkle, a widely used open-source updater, to check screenwright.com for a newer version. By default it checks when you open ScreenWright, and about once a day while it stays open. The check asks for one file, and it carries no information about you, your device or your layout. Sparkle can send an anonymous profile of your Mac with each check; we've turned that off in the app, and it can't be turned back on.

Like any web request, the check reaches our server with your IP address, and with the app's name and version in a standard request header. If you download an update, the same applies. Our server keeps these in its access logs, which are deleted after about two weeks. We use them only to run the server.

To stop automatic checks, turn off Check for updates when ScreenWright opens in ScreenWright's settings (Automatically check for updates in earlier versions). That stops both the check when it opens and the daily check. You can still check whenever you like from the ScreenWright menu.

Your license key

Your license key is signed by us, and it carries the name and email address you bought with. ScreenWright shows them in the app (“Licensed to …”), so anyone who uses your key can see whose it is.

Activation. The first time you enter your key on a Mac, ScreenWright contacts our license server once to activate that Mac. It sends:

• your license key, and
• an install ID: a random installation identifier that ScreenWright creates for that Mac. It isn't derived from your Mac's serial number or hardware, but our server links it to your license, and so to the name and email address on your key.

Like any web request, the activation reaches our server with your IP address, which our server keeps in its access logs for about two weeks. Our license server records which install IDs your key has activated, when, and how many Macs are active, so it can hold each key to five Macs at a time and let you free a slot. It also records whether a key has been revoked, for example after a refund.

The server returns a signed activation, which ScreenWright keeps on your Mac with your key. From then on ScreenWright checks your license on your Mac, offline. It contacts the license server again only when you activate or deactivate a Mac. Nothing about your phone, your layout or how you use ScreenWright is ever sent.

AI agents

ScreenWright includes an MCP server that runs on your Mac. If you connect an AI agent to it, the agent can read your home screen layout, installed apps, icons and device details, and it may send them to whoever provides that agent (for example, an AI company's servers). That happens under the agent provider's terms and privacy policy, not ours. We never receive any of it. Connect only agents you trust.

The website

screenwright.com counts visits with Umami, an analytics tool we run on our own server, so no analytics company receives anything. It sets no cookies, doesn't store your IP address, and doesn't follow you to other sites. It records the page you visited, the site that sent you, your browser, operating system, device type, screen size and language, and an approximate location (country, region and city) worked out from your IP address. We can't tell from it who you are.

Our web server keeps standard access logs (IP address, time, page requested and browser), deleted after about two weeks. We use them only to run and protect the site.

The site sets no cookies of its own and has no advertising or tracking pixels.

Support requests

When you use the support form, we collect what you type: your name, email address, the topic, your message, and anything optional you add (versions and a snapshot path). A snapshot path can include your Mac username, so leave it out if you'd rather.

• Bot check. Cloudflare Turnstile checks that a person is sending the form. Cloudflare receives your IP address and information about your browser for that check. See Cloudflare's Turnstile privacy policy.
• Our server (at DigitalOcean) gives your request a ticket number. It holds your IP address in memory for 15 minutes to limit repeated sending, and its logs don't record your name, email address or message. It also keeps a copy of each request in a file that only the form service and we can read, so nothing is lost if a delivery fails.
• Linear, our issue tracker, stores the request as an issue so we can work on it.
• Resend emails the request to our support inbox and sends you an acknowledgement with your ticket number.
• Site5 hosts our support inbox, at grizzlyminingcompany.com, where the request and our replies are kept.

That's the full list today. ScreenWright support requests aren't copied to a spreadsheet or anywhere else; if that changes, we'll update this page first.

We use what you send only to answer you and fix problems. We don't delete support requests on a fixed schedule. We keep one while your issue is open, and afterwards while it's still useful: to follow up, to help if you write again about the same thing, or to track a bug that more than one person has hit. When you ask us to delete it, we delete every copy above (the issue, the emails and the copy on our server), unless we need to keep part of it for a legal reason, such as a record of a refund or of a legal claim.

Buying ScreenWright

Paddle sells ScreenWright for us as the merchant of record. Paddle collects your payment details, billing country and postal code, and email address, and handles payment, tax, receipts and refunds under Paddle's privacy policy. We never see your full card number.

Paddle tells us your email address, country, order number, what you bought and the price, and your name if you gave one. We use them to:

• create your license key and email it to you, through Resend,
• keep a record of your email address, order number and key on our server, so we can resend your key and support you,
• handle refunds, and keep the business records the law requires.

We don't add you to a mailing list just because you bought something. You get update emails only if you ask for them (see below).

Product update emails

At checkout, Paddle may show a box asking whether you'd like product news from us. It isn't ticked unless you tick it. If you do, Paddle records your choice and passes it to us, and we keep it with your license record, next to your email address.

If you said yes, we'll occasionally email you about ScreenWright: new versions, fixes that matter, and news about ScreenWright 2.0 when there is any. We send these through Resend, from a grizzlyminingcompany.com address. We don't share the list with anyone or use it for advertising.

Every update email has an unsubscribe link, and one click is enough. You can also ask through the support page. Our own unsubscribe list is the record we go by: once you've unsubscribed, we won't send you update emails again unless you ask us to. Unsubscribing doesn't affect your license, and you'll still get the emails you need, such as your license key and replies to your support requests.

Who else receives information

Only the services named above, each for the job described: Paddle, Cloudflare, Resend, Linear, Site5, and DigitalOcean, which hosts our servers. Most of them are in the United States, and so are we. If you're elsewhere, your information is processed in the United States. Where applicable, these transfers rely on the safeguards in each provider's data protection terms, such as standard contractual clauses.

We don't sell your personal information. We don't share it for advertising, and we don't build profiles. We'll disclose information if the law requires it, or to the new owner if ScreenWright is ever sold, under this policy.

Why we're allowed to use it

If you're in the EEA, the UK or Switzerland, here are our legal grounds. We use purchase, license and activation information to perform our contract with you, and because we have a legitimate interest in stopping keys from being shared. We send product update emails only with your consent, which you can withdraw at any time. We use support requests, server logs and website statistics because we have a legitimate interest in helping you and keeping our services working and secure. We keep business records because the law requires it.

How long we keep it

• Web server logs: about two weeks.
• Website statistics: kept in aggregate; they don't identify you.
• Support requests, and every copy of them: no fixed period. We keep them while your issue is open and while they're useful afterwards (to follow up, to help if you write again, or to track a bug others have hit), and delete them when you ask, unless the law requires us to keep a record.
• License and activation records, including the installation identifiers linked to your key: as long as your license exists, so we can resend your key and manage your Macs.
• Update-email consent: until you unsubscribe. After that we keep only a note of your email address marked unsubscribed, so we don't email you again.
• Business and tax records: as long as the law requires.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you can ask to see, correct, export or delete the personal information we hold about you, or object to how we use it. Use the support page and we'll answer within a month. If you're in the EEA, the UK or Switzerland, you can also complain to your data protection authority.

California residents: we don't sell or share personal information as California law defines those terms, and we won't treat you differently for using your rights.

Children

ScreenWright isn't directed at children under 13 (or under 16 in the EEA and UK), and we don't knowingly collect their information.

Security

Our site and every service above use encrypted connections. Copies of requests on our server can be read only by the service that wrote them and by us, and we keep access to a minimum.

Changes

If we change this policy, we'll post the new version here with a new date. If a change affects how we use information we already hold, we'll tell license holders by email.

Contact

Write to us through the support page. A real person reads every message. By post: Grizzly Mining Company LLC, P.O. Box 321, Thompson Falls, MT 59873, USA.