No analytics, no tracking, no advertising, no third-party SDKs. Your Dock settings never leave your Mac.
The app does talk to one server, ours: about your license, and about anything you choose to send, such as a bug report, a settings backup or how you heard about Still Dock. There is no password: you sign in with your email address and a code we send you, or with Sign in with Apple, and that address is the only personal detail the app ever sends. Exactly what it sends and when is listed under What the app sends below, in full.
This website is a separate matter, and it does use one analytics tool. The analytics tool is set out in full under This website below.
Still Dock is made by Little Bird Trading LLC. If you have a question about anything on this page, email hello@littlebirdtrading.com.
Still Dock keeps these things on your Mac. Where iCloud is mentioned, the copy goes to your own iCloud account, never to us:
The entire contents are Dock settings, a few true/false values, your Mac's name, and that one random number. There is no document store, no history and no profile of you.
The app writes a plain-text log to your Mac's temporary folder to help diagnose problems in the field. It records timestamps and status lines such as which lock was applied. It contains no personal information and it stays on your Mac. The log is sent only if you attach it to a bug report yourself (see below), and then with your home folder name and any email addresses removed. macOS clears the temporary folder periodically, and you can delete the file at any time.
The Mac App Store version does not ask for Accessibility, or for any other permission. Everything in it works the moment you install it.
The direct download does not need it for the four Dock locks either. Two of its features do: keeping the Dock on one display, and the ⌘Q and ⌘W protection. Both are opt-in, so macOS only asks if you switch one on.
Accessibility is a powerful permission, so you should know what it is for here. macOS requires it before any app is allowed to stop a gesture or a keystroke reaching another app, and stopping them outright is how those two features work in the direct download. The App Store version steers your pointer away from the Dock's resize divider and reserves ⌘Q and ⌘W while a protected app is in front, neither of which requires permission, and neither of which involves reading anyone else's input.
Granting it, in the direct download, means macOS lets Still Dock see input events as they pass by. So here is exactly what happens to them:
Nothing is recorded. Still Dock does not log, store, buffer or transmit what you type or where you click. It is not a keylogger and it does not read your screen. None of it is sent anywhere. The only things the app ever transmits are listed below, and no keystroke, click or pointer position is among them.
Still Dock talks to one server, ours, at stilldock.com. It is about whether your copy is licensed, your sign-in, the assistant connection, and anything you choose to send us: a report, a settings backup or how you heard about Still Dock. Here is every request either version can make, and everything each one contains:
?ref=share, so the site knows a visit came from a share.That is the complete list. Your Dock settings, your locks, your profiles and your backups are never sent anywhere, and the diagnostic log only when you attach it to a bug report. There is no analytics of any kind in either version, and no third-party SDK other than Sparkle, which is the updater in the direct download.
Requests are made over HTTPS and reach our own server. We keep the install ID and its license state so the licensing works at all; we do not use it to build any profile of you, and it is never shared or sold.
The Still Dock app for iPhone and Apple Watch has no analytics, and it makes network requests only when you ask. If you send a bug report or feature request from its Help menu, it sends what you typed, your email address only if you added one, any photos you chose for a bug report, and the app version, iOS version and app language. We forward it to our mailbox and store none of it on the server. It also offers signing in with your email code or with Apple, and the welcome tour's How did you hear question, both described above, and its Help menu holds Rate and Share, which open the App Store and your share sheet. Otherwise it reads and writes only the small record described above, in your own iCloud account, so it works only between devices signed in to the same Apple Account. When it asks for Face ID before switching something off, or before it opens if you lock the app, iOS does the check; the app is told only yes or no.
stilldock.com is served by Cloudflare. The interactive demo on the home page runs entirely in your browser and sends nothing anywhere.
The site uses Microsoft Clarity to understand how people actually use these pages: which parts get read, where people give up, what is confusing. It sets cookies and it records your session, meaning your mouse movement, scrolling, clicks and the pages you visit. That recording goes to Microsoft, and we watch it back in aggregate to improve the site.
What it does not capture: Clarity masks text input by default, so anything you type is not recorded. The contact form on the home page is also marked so that Clarity does not record what is typed into it, and payment happens on Stripe's own pages, which Clarity never sees. We do not run Clarity on the review page, because its address carries a token tied to your purchase.
We do not use any of this for advertising and we do not sell it. See Microsoft's privacy statement, and Clarity's terms. If you would rather not be recorded, a browser content blocker will stop it, as will private browsing with third-party scripts disabled.
If a link from the app brought you here, its address carries a short tag saying which part of the app sent you (for example mac-direct-help); we keep that tag in your browser for the visit and include it if you purchase, so we know which part of the app worked, and it is included in nothing else, sold to no one, and Clarity already records the full page address regardless.
Like any web host, Cloudflare records standard server logs (IP address, time, page requested, browser type) for security and reliability. We do not use these to build any profile of you. See Cloudflare's privacy policy.
Depending on where you purchased it:
We keep your message and address so we can reply and so we have the thread if you write again. We do not add you to a mailing list and we do not pass your address to anyone.
Still Dock is a utility for general audiences and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone, of any age.
Privacy laws in many places give you the right to see, correct, export or delete the personal information a company holds about you. For the app, what we hold is the install ID described above, and, if you have signed in, your email address, your license, and a record of each Mac you signed in on so we can enforce the device limit. You can see and remove those Macs yourself from "Your Macs" inside the app, and deleting your account from inside the app removes, together, the address from every purchase it is on, every session, the record of your Macs, and any review you left. We keep the purchase record itself (the plan, its dates and the payment identifiers), because tax and refund rules require it. A review request email that was already booked may still arrive once; its link no longer works. For anything else, write to hello@littlebirdtrading.com and we will action it.
To remove everything the app has stored on your Mac, turn the locks off and delete the app. It restores your original Dock settings and leaves nothing behind.
If this policy changes we will update the effective date at the top of this page. If a change is significant, meaning we ever started collecting something, we will say so plainly on the site and will not quietly edit this page.
10 October 2026: we added Free accounts, which anyone can sign in to on a Mac or iPhone, the settings backup kept with an account, the welcome tour's How did you hear question, and the assistant connection for Free accounts. Each is listed under What the app sends.
3 October 2026: we added Sign in with Apple and Sign in with ChatGPT, the connection a Mac keeps open to stilldock.com while it is signed in with Pro so that ChatGPT, Codex and Cursor can reach it, and the Share link with its ?ref=share tag. Each is listed under What the app sends. Your Dock settings still never leave your Mac.
12 August 2026: this page previously said the app had no networking code at all. That was written before licensing existed and it had stopped being true: the app checks your trial or license with our server, and the direct download also signs permanent locks, fetches your review link and checks for updates. Nothing new started happening on this date and no new information is being collected. The page was wrong and now describes what the app has been doing, request by request, under What the app sends. Your Dock settings still never leave your Mac.
4 August 2026: we added Microsoft Clarity to the website, so the site now uses cookies and records sessions. It was previously analytics-free.
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