Privacy Policy

Effective Date: January 17, 2025

The short version: We don't collect your data. Our products work locally on your device. We have no interest in tracking you, analyzing you, or monetizing your information.

Overview

Barely Working Code builds software tools that respect your privacy. We believe in creating useful products without the surveillance capitalism baggage. This policy explains how our products handle your data (spoiler: they mostly don't).

General Principles

Product-Specific Privacy Information

Pace Reader (Safari Extension)

Pace Reader provides RSVP speed reading functionality for Safari on macOS and iOS.

Data Collection: None. We do not collect, store, or transmit any personal data.

How It Works:

Permissions Used:

Third-Party Libraries:

These libraries operate entirely within your browser. No user data is shared with them.

Data Retention: None. Text is extracted only during active use. Settings are stored in your browser's localStorage. No history or analytics are collected.

Sorta Sleep (macOS App)

Sorta Sleep is a diagnostic tool for investigating macOS sleep and power management issues.

Data Collection: None. We do not collect, store, or transmit any personal data.

How It Works:

Permissions Used:

Data Retention: Action logs are stored locally on your device until you delete them. No diagnostic data is persisted beyond the current session. No analytics or telemetry are collected.

Eve Workspace (Self-Hosted Web App)

Eve Workspace is a self-hosted multi-LLM web interface that runs entirely on your machine.

Data Collection: None by us. Eve runs on your infrastructure. We have no servers, no telemetry, no way to collect anything.

How It Works:

Third-Party Services:

Data Retention: All data is stored locally in your file system. Delete the data directory to remove everything. We retain nothing because we never receive anything.

Outlook Email MCP Server

An MCP server that gives Claude Desktop read-only access to your Outlook.com emails.

Data Collection: None. We do not collect, store, or transmit any personal data.

How It Works:

Authentication:

Data Retention: Exported emails and cached tokens are stored locally until you delete them. The MCP server reads emails on demand and does not maintain a persistent cache beyond what you explicitly export.

Website

This website (barelyworkingcode.com) is a static site hosted on Cloudflare Pages.

Children's Privacy

Our products do not knowingly collect information from anyone, including children under 13.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy when we release new products. Changes will be posted at this URL with an updated effective date.

Contact

For questions about this privacy policy:

Summary: Your data is yours. We don't want it, we don't collect it, and we designed our products so they don't need it.