Privacy Policy

Essentials is a local-first Safari extension. This document tells you exactly what data the app touches, where it lives, and what we — the developers — can and cannot see. Essentials for Safari is operated by Pocket Atelier LLC.

The short version

• The Essentials extension never sends your data to us. No in-extension analytics, no crash reporting, no remote logging. (This marketing site uses privacy-friendly analytics — see below.)
• Your essentials live on your Mac and, if you opt in, in your private iCloud storage container.
• iCloud sync runs through your Apple ID. We never receive a copy.
• The extension does not read page content, cookies, form data, or browsing history. It processes tab URLs and titles locally only when needed for features like adding the current tab, showing tile state, or opening/focusing a matching tab.

What is stored, and where

When you add a site to Essentials, the extension records the URL, a title (which you can edit), and the position in your grid. The app also stores your space metadata (name, two-letter label, color), your layout settings (rows, columns, click behavior), and a local cache of the favicons it has fetched. That data lives in:

• Local sandboxed storage on your Mac (via Safari and the Essentials application container).
• If iCloud sync is enabled in Settings → Sync, your private iCloud storage container under your Apple ID. Pocket Atelier LLC does not receive or operate a copy of this data. Favicon images are kept locally only and are not synced.

Browsing data

Essentials does not run scripts on the pages you visit and does not read page content, cookies, form data, or browsing history. It uses Safari's tabs API and broad host permission to do three things: open or focus the tab matching an essential when you click it; show the active or loaded state of each tile; and offer "Add current tab" and "Add to Essentials" from Safari's right-click menu. For those features, Essentials may process tab URLs and titles locally on your Mac. None of this information is sent to Pocket Atelier LLC.

Network

The extension makes outbound requests for one purpose only: fetching favicons for sites you add. It first tries the site itself; if that fails, it falls back to Google's public favicon service at www.google.com/s2/favicons, which returns the icon Google has on file for that domain. Both requests go directly from your Mac to those hosts — never through our servers, because we do not run any. When fetching a fallback icon from Google's public utility, Google receives the requested domain and ordinary network metadata, such as your IP address and browser request information, under Google's own privacy practices. Essentials does not attach your Essentials data, account information, or any Pocket Atelier LLC identifier to that request.

App Store purchase

Apple processes the one-time purchase. The app does not read, store, or transmit your purchase receipt — Apple does not share it with us, and we do not ask for it. If you contact us at support@essentialsforsafari.app, we will see the email address you choose to write from — and only that. We use this information solely to answer your support request and will delete our email correspondence upon request.

Website analytics

This marketing site (essentialsforsafari.app) uses Umami, a privacy-friendly analytics tool we self-host on our own infrastructure. It does not set cookies, does not store IP addresses, and does not track visitors across sites. We use it to understand basic site traffic, such as page views, referrers, browser and device type, country-level location, and similar aggregate metrics. The Essentials extension itself does not load Umami or any other analytics.

Children

Essentials is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect data from them. The extension does not send children's personal data to Pocket Atelier LLC.

Changes to this policy

If we ever change what the app does, we will update this page and note the change in the changelog. There is no mailing list for us to email; the extension is the contract.

Contact

Questions? Write to support@essentialsforsafari.app. A real person will reply.