Privacy Policy

What Aika accesses

Aika reads your calendar events and reminders through Apple’s EventKit framework, a local, on-device API provided by macOS. When you grant Aika permission to access Calendars and Reminders, that data is read directly from the local database on your Mac. If you turn on the optional home-city-from-location feature, Aika asks for your location once and uses it only to pick a city; the coordinates are not stored or sent anywhere.

What we do not do

• We do not collect any personal information
• We do not send your events, reminders or contacts to any server
• We do not use analytics, tracking or telemetry in the app
• We do not include any third-party SDKs that collect data
• We do not use cookies or similar technologies in the app
• We do not have user accounts or registration
• We do not send crash reports
• We do not sell, share, or rent any data to third parties

Network connections

Aika makes exactly two kinds of network requests, both optional in effect:

• Weather. To show the temperature for the cities in your world clock, Aika asks the MET Norway weather service for the forecast at each saved city’s coordinates. Only the coordinates are sent, only while the panel is open, and nothing identifies you. You can remove all cities to stop these requests.
• Update check. Once a day Aika fetches a small version file from macmenubarcalendar.com to see whether a newer build exists. No data about you is sent with that request.

Clicking a video meeting link opens it in the meeting app or your browser, exactly as if you had clicked it yourself. We receive nothing.

License activation

Your license is checked on your Mac with a cryptographic signature. Activation does not contact our servers and does not create an account.

Data storage

Aika stores your preferences (saved cities, theme, menu bar settings, focus history and the like) locally on your Mac in macOS UserDefaults. This data stays on your device.

This website

macmenubarcalendar.com uses Microsoft Clarity to understand how visitors use the site. The app itself does not. Purchases are handled by Stripe under Stripe’s privacy policy; we receive the email address you used to pay so we can issue your license key.

Children’s privacy

Since Aika does not collect data from anyone, there are no special concerns regarding children’s privacy.

Changes to this policy

If our practices change, we will update this page and its date. Our core principle is “collect nothing”, and we do not anticipate changing it.