Privacy and your data

Your calendars, tasks and passwords stay on your Mac. Almanac connects straight from your computer to the services you choose. Our own server only holds what's needed for your Almanac Account and licence.

What stays on your Mac

• Events, task lists and tasks from your accounts, kept as an offline copy so Almanac works without a connection.
• Passwords and sign-ins for your accounts, stored in your Mac's Keychain.
• Your settings, such as views, alerts, calendar colours and templates.
• Contacts and location, if you allow them. They're used on your Mac for invitee suggestions, birthdays, weather and travel time.
• What you type. Sentences are understood on your Mac. If you turn on Apple Intelligence, Almanac uses Apple's on-device model.

Your calendars never pass through a server of ours. Removing an account in Almanac deletes its offline copy and saved sign-in from your Mac.

Services Almanac talks to

Almanac only contacts a service when you add an account or turn on a feature that needs it, and it connects directly from your Mac:

• your calendar and task services, such as Google, Microsoft, iCloud, Fastmail, CalDAV servers and Todoist;
• Zoom and Google Meet, if you connect them to create meetings;
• a weather service, which receives only an approximate location;
• Apple Maps, to show a map and travel time for events with a location.

What our server holds

To sell and activate licences, we keep a small amount of information about your Almanac Account:

• your email address and the name you choose (shown on your licence);
• your licences: plan, number of Macs and expiry date;
• the Macs you've activated: each Mac's name, a random identifier and when it was activated and last checked in;
• subscription and invoice details from Stripe, such as your plan, renewal date, invoice amounts and your card's brand and last four digits. We never see your full card number.

We email you sign-in codes and messages about your licence and billing. News and offers are sent only if you tick the optional box, and you can turn them off on your account page.

No tracking

The app has no analytics, crash reporting or ads.

The full privacy policy

This page is a summary. Read the Privacy Policy for the full details, including how Almanac handles Google user data. Questions? Email [email protected].