GlanceUp Privacy Policy

Last updated 1 November 2026

GlanceUp is made by Ben Dansby. This policy covers the Mac app.

The short version

What you put on GlanceUp’s shelf stays on your Mac. It has no analytics, no telemetry, no account and no identifier, and it sends nothing you’ve dropped or pasted anywhere.

What GlanceUp keeps

Files you drop are referenced, not copied. The shelf remembers where they are and shows them from there.
Things with no file of their own are saved locally. A pasted picture, text, a PDF or a file dragged from a browser or Mail is written to GlanceUp’s folder in your Library (Application Support/GlanceUp), and deleted when you remove it from the shelf and GlanceUp closes.
Your settings (launch at login, the shortcut, popover or window, size) live in your local preferences.

None of this is transmitted.

When GlanceUp uses the network

Only for these, and none carries anything from your shelf:

Update checks. GlanceUp asks bendansby.com for its update feed. That request carries your app version and macOS version, which is what any updater needs to answer the question.
Licensing. If you buy a license, activating it sends your license key to Lemon Squeezy, who handle the purchase and validation. Their handling is covered by the Lemon Squeezy privacy policy. GlanceUp stores the resulting receipt locally and rechecks it occasionally. If you never buy a license, this never happens.
Thumbnails for saved web pages. When you put an HTML file on the shelf, GlanceUp uses the first picture on the page as its thumbnail. If that picture lives on the web rather than next to the file, GlanceUp downloads it from the site the page names, the same request a browser would make to show the page.

Opening a link or a file from the shelf hands it to your default browser or app; GlanceUp doesn’t fetch it.

Permissions

GlanceUp asks for none. It reads only what you drop or paste onto it, and the files you choose to save a copy to. No screen recording, Accessibility, contacts, camera or microphone.

Children

GlanceUp is a file utility. It is not directed at children and collects nothing from anyone.

Changes

If this policy ever changes, the updated version will appear on this page with a new date.

Contact

Questions about privacy, or anything else: ben.dansby@gmail.com.