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MoveMatic privacy policy

Last updated: May 19, 2026

MoveMatic doesn't collect or transmit any personal data. No analytics, no telemetry, no accounts.

What MoveMatic does on your machine

• Reads and writes .mvm document files at locations you pick via Open / Save dialogs. Those documents are plain JSON on your disk and never leave your device.
• Imports image, video, and audio files you drag in. They're embedded into the active document on your disk — no upload, no copy to any server.
• Exports MP4 files where you tell it to save them.

Network connections MoveMatic makes on its own

• Update checks (direct-download builds only). The Sparkle framework periodically fetches https://bendansby.com/apps/movematic/appcast.xml to see if a newer version is available. The request carries only a User-Agent string and the current MoveMatic version, the same as any HTTP request. No identifiers, no telemetry, no tracking. The Mac App Store build doesn't use Sparkle — App Store updates handle that.
• Optional Claude Assistant. MoveMatic ships an in-app AI authoring panel that is off by default. You enable it in Preferences and supply your own Anthropic API key. When you send a message, MoveMatic talks directly to the Anthropic API on your behalf — no proxy, no relay. The key is stored locally on your machine and never transmitted to anyone but Anthropic. If you never turn the feature on, no network requests fire from this code path.

What we don't do

• No analytics or telemetry of any kind.
• No user accounts. No login, no remote configuration.
• No advertising, third-party tracking SDKs, or fingerprinting.
• No cookies, no server-side logs about you.

Contact

ben.dansby@gmail.com

Changes

If anything material changes about what MoveMatic collects, this page updates and the next version's release notes call it out explicitly.