Privacy Policy
Last updated: 13 November 2026
Almanac is a calendar and task app for macOS. This policy explains what data Almanac uses, where it goes, and the choices you have. The short version: your data stays on your Mac. Almanac connects directly from your computer to the services you choose. We do not operate servers that receive, store or process your calendars, tasks, contacts or account credentials, and we do not sell or share your data.
1. Data Almanac stores on your Mac
- Calendar events, task lists and tasks from the accounts you connect, kept as an offline copy in Almanac’s folder on your Mac (
~/Library/Application Support/Almanac) so the app works without a connection. - Sign-in tokens and passwords for your accounts, stored in your macOS Keychain.
- Your settings (views, alerts, calendar colours, templates and similar), stored in macOS preferences.
Removing an account in Almanac deletes its offline copy and its saved sign-in from your Mac. Deleting the app and its folder removes everything.
2. Services Almanac connects to
Almanac only contacts a service when you add an account or turn on a feature that needs it. Requests go directly from your Mac to that service, under that service’s own privacy policy.
| Service | What Almanac does |
|---|---|
| Google (Calendar, Tasks, Meet) | Reads and writes your events and tasks; creates Google Meet links for events when you ask; reads free/busy times for scheduling. |
| Microsoft 365 / Outlook (Calendar, To Do, Teams) | Reads and writes your events and tasks; creates Teams meetings when you ask; reads free/busy times. |
| Zoom | Creates a Zoom meeting for an event when you ask, and reads your Zoom account’s email address to show which account is connected. |
| iCloud, Fastmail, Nextcloud and other CalDAV servers | Reads and writes your calendars and task lists with the user name and password you provide. |
| Todoist | Reads and writes your projects and tasks with the API token you provide. |
| Subscribed calendars | Downloads the calendar file from the address you enter. |
| Open-Meteo (weather) | If weather is on, sends an approximate location (rounded coordinates or the city you choose) to fetch forecasts. No account or identifier is sent. |
| Apple Maps | If an event has a location, looks up the place and travel time to show a map and “time to leave” alerts. |
| Gravatar (optional, off by default) | If you turn on “Use Gravatar for invitee images”, sends a one-way hash of invitees’ email addresses to Gravatar to fetch profile pictures. |
3. Google user data
Almanac requests access to Google Calendar, Google Tasks and Google Meet only to show, create and change the events, tasks and meeting links you see in the app. Data received from Google APIs:
- is used only to provide Almanac’s user-facing calendar, task and meeting features;
- is stored only on your Mac, and is never sent to servers operated by us;
- is never transferred or sold to anyone, never used for advertising, and never used to develop, improve or train generalised AI or machine-learning models;
- is never read by people, except when you explicitly ask us for help with a specific problem and share it with us yourself.
Almanac’s use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
4. Data on your Mac that never leaves it
- Contacts: if you allow access, Almanac reads names, emails and birthdays to suggest invitees and show a Birthdays calendar. They are used on your Mac only.
- Location: if you allow access, your location is used for weather, travel time and automatic calendar sets, as described above.
- Natural-language parsing: sentences you type are understood on your Mac. If Apple Intelligence is available and enabled, its on-device model may be used.
- Notifications are scheduled locally by macOS.
5. What we don’t do
- No analytics, tracking or advertising SDKs.
- No crash reports or usage data sent to us.
- No selling, renting or sharing of personal data.
6. Your choices
- Disconnect any account in Almanac › Settings › Accounts. You can also revoke Almanac’s access at Google, Microsoft or in your Zoom account’s installed apps.
- Turn off weather, location, contacts or Gravatar at any time in Almanac’s settings or in macOS System Settings › Privacy & Security.
7. Children
Almanac is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect data from them.
8. Changes
If this policy changes, we’ll update the date above and, for significant changes, mention it in the app’s release notes.
9. Contact
Questions or requests: [email protected].