Privacy Policy for Valpas

App name: Valpas Bundle identifier: com.kirsulab.valpas Platform: macOS 13.0 or later Publisher: KirsuLab LLC Contact: hello@kirsulab.com

Valpas is a menu bar utility that keeps your Mac awake for as long as you ask it to. It is built to do that one job without learning anything about you. This policy explains, plainly, what that means.

1. The short version

Valpas collects no personal data at all. There are no accounts, no analytics, no advertising, no tracking and no crash reporting. Nothing about you or your Mac is sent to KirsuLab or to anyone else.

2. No network access

Valpas is sandboxed and is not granted network access of any kind — not outgoing, not incoming. This is not a promise about our intentions; it is enforced by macOS itself, which will not let the app open a network connection even if it tried. The app has no servers to talk to.

3. Permissions it does not ask for

Valpas requests no access to your camera, microphone, contacts, calendars, photos, location or documents. It does not ask for Accessibility permission: the optional global shortcut is registered through macOS's own hot key API, which requires no such grant and cannot observe what you type in other apps.

Valpas can see the identifiers of applications currently running on your Mac. That is what makes the optional “while an app is running” trigger possible: you choose an app, and Valpas checks whether it is open. This information is compared inside the app and never leaves it; nothing is recorded except the identifier and name of the one app you chose, stored in your own preferences.

4. What is stored, and where

Valpas stores only your own settings — the mode, the chosen duration, which triggers you enabled, the app you picked for the app trigger, the battery threshold and the keyboard shortcut. These live in the app's preferences inside its sandbox container on your Mac. They are never transmitted anywhere, and they are removed when you delete the app.

5. What Valpas does to your Mac

While a session runs, Valpas holds a standard macOS power assertion so the display or the system does not fall asleep on its own, and — in the “Keep display on” mode — periodically tells macOS that the user is active, which is what holds the screen saver back. When the session ends, both are released and your Mac's own Energy Saver settings apply again. Valpas never changes your system settings.

6. Children

Valpas is a general-purpose utility and is not directed at children. It collects no personal information from anyone, including children.

7. Changes to this policy

If the app changes in a way that affects this policy, we will update this page with a new effective date.

8. Contact

Questions about this policy? Email hello@kirsulab.com.