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StickyShell Privacy Policy

Our ironclad commitment to local-first data control, zero telemetry, and complete user sovereignty.

Effective Date: 2026 • Windows Official Release

1. Offline Operation & Zero Telemetry

StickyShell operates entirely offline on your local computer. It is engineered from the ground up as a native desktop utility that never requires an internet connection to fulfill its core purpose:

  • No Analytics or Telemetry: StickyShell does not track your app usage, active features, session duration, click counts, or personal habits.
  • No Background Network Connections: The application initiates zero outgoing background network requests, pings, or heartbeats.
  • No Cloud Accounts or Sync: StickyShell does not require user registration, passwords, phone numbers, or cloud profiles. You use the software immediately upon download with complete anonymity.

2. 100% Local Data Storage

All your notes, checklist states, table data, custom tags, and appearance preferences are stored exclusively on your local storage drive in clear, human-readable JSON format:

%APPDATA%\com.pulsemindstudios.stickyshell\stickyshell_data.json

Your thoughts, confidential plans, code snippets, and scratchpads remain solely on your hard drive. They are never sent to external servers, cloud databases, or third-party servers.

3. Terminal & Command Runner Security

When executing commands via StickyShell's integrated Command Runner (Ctrl + Enter):

  • All commands execute strictly within your local operating system's native command interpreters (such as cmd.exe or powershell.exe) under your active Windows user profile permissions.
  • Output streams and return codes are maintained in temporary, volatile local process memory to render the terminal drawer and are completely discarded upon note closure.
  • No command strings, script arguments, or execution outputs are ever monitored, indexed, or transmitted over any network interface.

4. Zero Third-Party Trackers & Advertising

StickyShell contains no third-party advertising SDKs, marketing trackers, tracking pixels, or third-party behavioral profiling code. We do not monetize your data, sell usage information to data brokers, or display targeted commercial advertisements.