Privacy policy

This policy covers the Shelfy app for Mac and this website, shelfydock.com. Shelfy is made by Ayesha Gagan; you can reach us at adgan.business@gmail.com.

The Shelfy app

• Your files stay on your Mac. Shelfy remembers where the files on your shelf are and never uploads them. Its file actions (Compress, Convert, Resize, Remove Background, Remove Hidden Info, Copy Text, Merge PDFs, Compress Video, Make GIF and Zip) all run on your Mac. So that the panel’s search can find words in screenshots and images, Shelfy reads their text with Apple’s on-device text recognition and keeps it in memory only. Translate Text reads the text on your Mac, then shows it in the translation panel built into macOS, which is Apple’s. Tidy My Desktop only moves files into a folder in your Documents; it never deletes anything.
• No account, no analytics, no tracking. The app doesn’t send usage data, crash reports or anything about the files you keep.
• The clipboard. Shelfy keeps screenshots you copy with ⌃⇧⌘3 or ⌃⇧⌘4 (the newest twenty, for a week, on your Mac). Clipboard History is off unless you choose it in Settings. When it’s on, Shelfy keeps the last twenty things you copy, in memory only; copied images are saved in Shelfy’s own folder on your Mac so they can be shown and dragged, and deleted as they leave the list, when you turn Clipboard History off, and when Shelfy starts again. It never reads what password managers and other apps mark as private. Without Clipboard History, Shelfy never reads anything else you copy. ⌃⌥V puts your clipboard back as it was after pasting.
• Import from iPhone. Uses Apple’s Continuity Camera: the photo or scan goes from your iPhone to your Mac, and onto the shelf. It doesn’t pass through us.
• License checks. When you activate, and about once a day after that, Shelfy sends your license key and Shelfy’s product ID to Gumroad, which sold you the license, to confirm it’s valid. Licenses bought before November 1, 2026 were sold through Dodo Payments; for those, the license key and your Mac’s name are sent to Dodo Payments instead.
• Updates. Shelfy checks for new versions by downloading a small file from shelfydock.com (using Sparkle). Like any web request, this shows our host your IP address; no other information is sent.
• Support info. Settings › Help › Copy Support Info puts your Mac and Shelfy versions and your Dock setup on the clipboard. Nothing is sent unless you paste it into an email to us yourself. It never includes your files.

This website

• Hosting. The site runs on Cloudflare, which processes requests (including IP addresses) to serve pages and keep the site secure.
• Analytics. We use DataCheap, a small analytics tool, to count visits and see which pages and links bring people here. It sets a first-party cookie with a random visitor ID so repeat visits aren’t counted twice. We don’t use advertising trackers.
• Buying. Checkout is handled by Gumroad, which collects your payment details, email and name under its own privacy policy. When you click Buy, we pass your random visitor ID along so we can tell which page led to a sale. After a sale, Gumroad tells us the sale’s amount, currency, product, time, your email and name; we pass those to DataBull, the sales side of the same analytics service as DataCheap, to see which pages and posts lead to sales. Your license key is never passed on.
• Email. If you email us, we use your message only to help you.

Your choices

• You can block cookies in your browser; the site and the demo still work.
• You can ask us what we hold about you, or to delete it, by emailing adgan.business@gmail.com. Purchase records kept by Gumroad are covered by Gumroad’s own policy.

Changes

If this policy changes, we’ll update it here and change the date at the top.