Privacy Policy

Last updated 15 November 2026

Kettlebar is built to know as little about you as possible. This page explains what is collected by the app, by this website and when you buy a licence.

The short version

• Your code, your prompts and what Claude Code does never leave your Mac.
• The app has no account, no analytics and no tracking.
• We only learn who you are if you buy a licence or email us.

The Kettlebar app

Kettlebar receives short status updates from Claude Code on your own Mac, such as the project name, the current step and whether a session is working, waiting or done. It keeps these in a folder on your Mac (~/.kettlebar) so it can show them. This information is not sent to us or to anyone else.

The app does not read your source files, your prompts or Claude's replies, and it does not record your screen, microphone or keyboard.

The app connects to the internet for two purposes only: to check a licence key when you enter one, and to check whether a newer version is available. Those requests contain the licence key and the app version. They contain nothing about your work.

This website

kettlebar.app does not use analytics, advertising or tracking cookies. The site is hosted by Cloudflare, which, like any web host, processes technical information such as your IP address and browser type in order to deliver pages and protect the site from abuse. The fonts on this site are loaded from Google Fonts, which means your browser makes a request to Google when a page loads.

When you buy a licence

Payments are handled by Paddle.com, which is the Merchant of Record for our orders. Paddle collects your payment details, email address, and billing country or address in order to process the order and handle tax. We never see or store your card details. Paddle's privacy policy explains how it uses your information.

Paddle passes us the details of your order: your email address, your name if you gave one, your country, what you bought and when. We use these to create your licence key, email it to you, help you if you lose it, and keep the records we are required to keep.

When you email us

If you write to support@kettlebar.app, we receive your email address and whatever you include in the message. We use it only to reply and to help with your request.

Who we share information with

We do not sell personal information and we do not share it for advertising. We use a small number of service providers who process information for us: Paddle for payments, and Cloudflare for hosting the website and delivering email. We may also disclose information if the law requires it.

How long we keep it

We keep order and licence records for as long as your licence is in use and for as long as the law requires us to keep sales records. We keep support emails for as long as they are useful for helping you.

Your choices

You can ask us for a copy of the information we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it. Email support@kettlebar.app and we will respond. If we delete your order record, we may no longer be able to recover a lost licence key for you. Some records may need to be kept where the law requires it.

To remove everything the app has stored on your Mac, disconnect Claude Code in Kettlebar's settings, quit the app, and delete the app and the ~/.kettlebar folder.

Children

Kettlebar is a developer tool and is not directed at children.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, we will update this page and the date at the top.

Contact

Questions about privacy can be sent to support@kettlebar.app.