What is recorded
Still works without an account, and your own pictures and videos never leave your Mac. If you choose to sign in, we record what you do with the wallpapers in our catalog, so that Discover can later suggest ones you might like.
If you do not sign in
Nothing is recorded about you. The server keeps a few plain daily totals, with nothing to say who added to them:
- how many times this website was opened;
- how many times the app was downloaded, by version and by kind of Mac;
- how many times the app opened Discover, and how many times each wallpaper's file was fetched.
No cookie is set, and no IP address or device identifier is stored.
If you sign in
Signing in is optional. You give an email address, we send it a six-digit code, and you type the code into the app. There is no password. From then on, while you are signed in, the app reports the following and the server keeps it with your account:
- Your email address, the country your connection appears to come from, when you first signed in and when you were last seen.
- Opening the app: its version and the kind of system it is running on.
- What you do in Discover: opening it, the words you search for, the wallpapers you open, and the collections you open or save.
- What you do with catalog wallpapers: saving one to your library, putting one on your desktop, removing one.
That is the whole list. Pictures and videos you add yourself are not reported, by name or otherwise, and neither is what is on your screen, which displays you have, or your schedule.
What it is used for
To see which wallpapers people keep and which they pass over, so we know what to make more of, and to suggest wallpapers to you in Discover. We write to your address only to send a sign-in code you asked for. Nothing is sold or passed to advertisers, and no outside analytics service is involved: it all stays on our one server.
Removing it
In the app, open the menu at the top right, choose your account, then Delete account. Your account and everything recorded with it are deleted straight away. Signing out stops any further reporting but keeps what was already recorded.