Privacy policy
DisplayMode draws your screen. It does not record it. This page lists everything the app can see and everything that ever leaves your Mac. The technical detail behind each statement — which permission, which engine, how to revoke — is on the Permissions page.
1. Your screen
With the Screen Recording permission, DisplayMode streams the virtual displays it creates and draws them onto your physical monitor. Frames exist in memory and on the GPU while the split is on. No frame is written to disk and no frame is sent over the network. The only image the app ever saves is the diagnostic screenshot you request yourself, to a location you choose.
2. Your input
With the Accessibility permission, DisplayMode keeps the cursor inside the visible desktops and, if you use the window manager, reads and moves window frames. The app subscribes to mouse events only. It never reads your keyboard — its keyboard shortcuts use the system hotkey API, which does not see any other key — and it never asks for the Input Monitoring permission.
3. What leaves your Mac
- Licence activation. When you activate a licence key, the licence tool contacts one server and sends the key, an identifier and the name of this Mac, and your language setting; on the first activation of a purchased key it also sends the record of the consent you gave in the app (its version, language and time). That is what the server needs to say whether the key is valid, on how many Macs it is in use, and to keep the consent record consumer law requires. Nothing about your screen or your windows is included.
- Update checks. Once a day the app fetches a small XML file from our website to learn whether a newer version exists. The request carries the standard identification of the update framework (app name and version). No system profile is sent. A download happens only after you click.
- Nothing else. There is no telemetry, no analytics, no crash reporting and no “profile sync”. If you run a firewall, the licence server and this website are the complete list of hosts.
4. What stays on your Mac
Settings, layouts per monitor, window snapshots and logs are stored in your user library and are deleted by “Revoke permissions & uninstall…”. The trial record and the licence token stay after an uninstall so that a reinstall does not start a new trial; they contain dates, a device identifier and, in the licence token, a hash of the e-mail address the key was issued to — no screen content and no personal data beyond that.
5. Purchases
Orders are handled by Paddle.com Market Ltd, our merchant of record. Paddle receives your payment details and billing address; we receive the order number, the licence key it generated and, for consent records required by consumer law, the e-mail address used at checkout. Paddle’s own privacy policy governs the data it processes.
6. This website
The site is static. It remembers your language choice in your browser’s local storage and sets no cookies of its own. It is served by Cloudflare Pages, whose logs are governed by Cloudflare’s privacy policy.
7. Contact
Questions about this policy: support@displaymode.app.
Draft for legal review. To be confirmed before the first sale: the controller’s legal identity and address, the retention period of consent records, the exact fields the licence server stores, and the support address (a placeholder domain is used above).