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Privacy

The short version: Nook has no server, so there is nowhere for your files to go.

What Nook reads

The names, types, sizes and dates of the files in the folders you point it at, and — for PDFs, images and text files — what’s inside them. Reading a scanned PDF means rendering the page and running text recognition on it. All of that happens on your Mac, using a model that ships as part of macOS. Nothing is uploaded, because there is no service to upload it to.

What leaves your Mac

Two things, ever:

• Your licence key, once. When you activate, Nook sends the key and a name for the Mac to Lemon Squeezy so they can confirm you bought it and count the activation. After that, Nook runs with the Wi-Fi off.
• A daily check for updates. Nook downloads a small file from this site listing the current version. It’s a plain request for a public file — it carries no identifier, and nothing about you or your files.

What Nook does not collect

• File names, file contents, or anything derived from them
• Analytics, telemetry, or usage statistics of any kind
• Crash reports
• Your email address, name, or any account — there are no Nook accounts
• Cookies or tracking on this website

What Lemon Squeezy holds

If you buy Nook, the payment is processed by Lemon Squeezy as merchant of record. They hold your email address and billing details in order to charge you, send your key and issue your invoice, under their privacy policy. I never see your card details. I can see the email address you bought with, which is how I answer your support mail.

Permissions Nook asks for

Access to the folders you choose — Downloads and Desktop by default. macOS asks you directly; Nook can’t grant itself anything. You can revoke it at any time in System Settings › Privacy & Security › Files and Folders, and Nook will keep running, just with nothing to look at.

Questions

Write to me. It’s a one-person operation and I answer my own mail.