What is collected, and by whom.

The app collects nothing

Kymatra makes no network connections. Not for analytics, not to check for updates, and not to check whether you are allowed to run it. There is no networking code in the app at all.

It reads what your Mac is playing in order to draw it, and those samples are used for the current frame and then gone. They are never written to disk and never leave your computer, because there is nothing in the app that could send them anywhere.

There is no account, no license, no sign-in and no activation. The app is free, so there is nothing for it to check and nothing to check it against.

Kymatra stores one thing locally, your settings, in macOS preferences. They stay on your Mac and go when you delete the app.

The Support and Send Feedback buttons hand a web address to macOS, which opens your browser or your mail client. Kymatra itself opens no connection, and nothing is sent until you send it.

Diagnostics are only ever sent by you

Copy Diagnostics and Send Feedback gather information about your Mac, displays, and audio devices. Nothing is gathered until you press the button, nothing is sent automatically, and what is gathered is put on your clipboard or into a draft email where you can read and edit it before anything goes anywhere.

A bug report includes those details because they are what make a bug fixable. A suggestion does not, because it does not need them.

This website

There is no analytics on this site, no tracking pixels, and no cookies. Every file it loads comes from this domain, including the two typefaces, so visiting this site sends nothing to any third party.

The one company involved is Cloudflare, who host it and keep standard server logs, which include visitor IP addresses.

Supporting it

Kymatra is free and there is nothing to buy, so no payment information reaches this site or the app, ever.

If you choose to leave a tip, that happens on Ko-fi, on their site, under their privacy policy. Whatever you tell them stays with them; nothing about a tip is sent back here, and nothing about your copy of Kymatra changes because of one.

Email

Mail to support@kymatra.com is routed by Cloudflare and read in Gmail, so both providers handle it in transit. Support email is kept while it is useful for supporting you and deleted when it is not.

Nothing is sold

No personal information is sold, rented, or shared for advertising. There is no advertising in the app or on this site, and no third party is given anything to build a profile with. Under California law, this is neither a sale nor a sharing of personal information.

Children

Kymatra is not aimed at children, and nothing here asks anyone their age. No information is knowingly collected from anyone under 13.

Who is responsible, and where things go

Kymatra is made by Ian Eguiarte, who is responsible for the information described on this page and is the data controller for it under UK and EU data protection law. The way to reach a person about any of it is support@kymatra.com.

Cloudflare and Google both operate across borders, so anything they handle may be processed outside the country you live in, under their own terms. The same is true of Ko-fi, if you choose to leave a tip.

Your data

Since the app collects nothing and there is nothing to buy, a support conversation is the only thing there could be. Write to support@kymatra.com and ask for a copy or for it to be deleted. Anything to do with a tip is held by Ko-fi rather than here, so those requests go to them.

If you are in the UK or the EU, you can also complain to your national data protection authority. Please write here first, since most things are quicker to fix than to adjudicate.

Changes

This page describes Kymatra 1, the version you can download today. If a future version ever connected to anything, to check a license against a server for example, that would be described here before it shipped, and it would say plainly what was collected and why.

That would not change the copy on your Mac. Software does not rewrite itself, and Kymatra never installs anything without you downloading it. A version that makes no network connections today will still make none in ten years, whatever this page says by then, and you can always keep running it.

If this page changes, the date at the top changes with it.