Privacy Policy for WheelClick

No personal information is collected by this app. The only data it collects is:

Usage Statistics

WheelClick counts which gestures you use, how many clicks it leaves alone, and for how long it runs, and submits an anonymous snapshot shortly after launch and about once a day while running. Alongside those counts it includes your Mac model and macOS version, the app's own version, and its license status — in the trial, licensed, or neither. Each snapshot is tied to a random install ID generated on your Mac — never your name, email, or anything else that identifies you.

The home page shows two numbers from all this: the clicks added up across reporting installs, and how fast that total is growing. Neither is about one Mac.

You can turn off submission at any time from the About WheelClick window. Local counting always happens; the toggle only stops the snapshot from leaving your Mac. Switching it off sends one last snapshot, marked as opted out, and nothing after it — an install that simply goes quiet is indistinguishable from one that was deleted, and that one flag is the difference. If it cannot be delivered, the app tries once more the next time it launches, then never again.

Update Checks

The version downloaded from this site keeps itself up to date: about once a day it asks wheelclick.app whether a newer version exists, and installs one when the Mac has been sitting idle. That request carries the version you are running and nothing else — no install ID, no name, no email. We keep one running tally per day per version, so that "how many Macs are still on an old version" has an answer; the tally cannot be traced back to any Mac, and no request log is kept alongside it.

The App Store version does none of this — it is updated by the App Store, and contains no update code at all.

Website Analytics

This website keeps anonymous, aggregate visit statistics — how many people view each page, roughly where they came from, and which install or purchase buttons get clicked. It sets no cookies and records nothing that identifies you: no name, no email, no cross-site tracking, no advertising profiles. Page views and referrers are measured with Vercel Web Analytics; the button clicks are counted in our own database as bare tallies.

Contact

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding this privacy policy, do not hesitate to contact me.

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