Privacy Policy

1. Controller and contact

RainDesk is developed by HighRoad Software, a trading name of COBI Management SRL (enterprise number BE 0676.613.701), Rue Haut Chemin 8, 1370 Jodoigne, Belgium. Contact privacy@highroadsoftware.com for privacy questions.

2. Data collection and transmission

RainDesk does not send personal data, device identifiers, usage events, crash reports, focus intentions, settings or audio activity to HighRoad Software or an analytics provider. It has no advertising or cross-app tracking. The only optional network feature is weather following, described below, which communicates with Apple Weather rather than a HighRoad Software server.

3. Data stored locally

RainDesk stores preferences needed to restore the app, such as the selected scene, intensity, opacity, volume, visual and sound controls, display choice, onboarding state, and current focus-session state or intention. This information is stored in the macOS app container with Apple system storage and is not transmitted by RainDesk.

4. Optional weather following and location

Weather following is off by default. If you enable it, RainDesk asks macOS for location access, rounds the coordinate to a 0.05-degree grid before use, and sends that coarsened coordinate to Apple Weather through Apple's WeatherKit service to retrieve current conditions and required attribution.

RainDesk requests the location at activation, on a manual refresh, and approximately every 30 minutes while weather following is active. The current weather result and Apple Weather attribution are kept in memory for the active session; the only persistent setting is whether weather following is enabled. HighRoad Software does not receive or store the coordinate or weather result. Apple's processing is governed by Apple's Privacy Policy. Loading Apple Weather attribution may also contact an Apple-hosted asset URL.

If you refuse location access or turn weather following off, RainDesk remains usable in manual mode and its bundled scenes and sounds remain available offline.

5. Visuals, audio and other permissions

Visual effects are generated locally with Metal. Ambient audio files ship inside the app and are mixed locally. RainDesk does not request camera, microphone, Contacts, Photos, Health, Accessibility or Screen Recording access. The optional above-window presentation mode changes the overlay window level; it does not capture the screen.

6. Purchases

Apple processes Mac App Store purchases under Apple's Privacy Policy. HighRoad Software does not receive payment-card details. RainDesk has no in-app purchase, subscription, external checkout or account entitlement system.

7. Deletion

Use RainDesk Settings to reset local preferences where offered. Removing RainDesk and its app container removes RainDesk's local settings and session state, subject to copies retained in your own Mac backups. Because HighRoad Software receives no RainDesk app data, there is no RainDesk server account to delete.

8. Website and support

The product website does not use advertising or behavioural analytics. Website hosting may create short-lived security and delivery logs as described in the HighRoad Software portfolio policy. If you email support, we process the message and reply details to answer your request.

9. Changes

If a future RainDesk release introduces a material data flow, this policy and the Mac App Store privacy answers will be updated before that release. The date above identifies the current policy.