Privacy Policy

1. The Short Version

Peel & Stick does not collect, transmit, sell, rent, share, host, analyze, profile, or store your notes, your drawings, their content, identifiers, usage data, or telemetry on servers controlled by us. Everything Peel & Stick does with your notes happens on your Mac. We have no servers that receive your content, no account system, no third-party analytics, advertising, attribution, or tracking components, and we do not train any model on your data.

To work, Peel & Stick keeps a few things on your Mac, such as your notes, your preferences, and its access to the notes folder you choose. Section 4 lists all of them. Peel & Stick does not store anything in your Mac’s keychain, and it does not encrypt your notes: locked notes are encoded, not encrypted, as Section 4 explains.

2. Who This Policy Applies To

This Privacy Policy applies to the Peel & Stick application for macOS as distributed through Apple’s App Store, and to any in-app purchase or subscription offered in it. Section 9 also describes this website and what happens when you contact us. This policy does not cover Apple’s services - such as the App Store, your Apple Account, iCloud, Touch ID, notifications, the Shortcuts app, or Siri - which are governed by Apple’s own privacy policies, nor any third-party app, device, service, or software you choose to use with Peel & Stick, such as a service that synchronizes or backs up your notes folder, a screen-sharing or recording app, or a Claude session you allow to leave notes.

3. Data We Collect - None

For the purposes of Apple’s App Privacy framework, Peel & Stick declares “Data Not Collected” in every category. We do not collect contact information, health or financial information, location, sensitive information, contacts, user content (including your notes, drawings, and checklists), browsing or search history, identifiers, purchases, usage data, diagnostics, or any other data through Peel & Stick. The information Peel & Stick keeps on your Mac, described below, is not received, accessed, or held by us, and is therefore not “collected” by us.

4. What Peel & Stick Keeps on Your Mac

To work, Peel & Stick keeps certain information on your Mac: in its own sandboxed data folder and, if you choose one, in your notes folder. None of it is transmitted to us.

(a) Your notes. Peel & Stick keeps every note as a file in its own data folder, in a readable text format (JSON). Each note’s file holds its words and formatting, its checklists and their ticks, its drawing, its paper, the pad it rests on, where it is pinned (including an identifier of the display it is on and its position and tilt), whether it appears when you share your screen, when it was created and changed, other settings of that note, such as a reminder, and, for a note left by a Claude session, a mark saying so. Notes that are not locked can be read by anyone, or any software, with access to these files.

(b) Your notes folder. If you choose a notes folder - by creating a “Peel & Stick Notes” folder or with “Use a folder I already have” - Peel & Stick also keeps a copy of each unlocked note there, as a “.pstick” file named after the note’s first line and containing the whole note as readable text. Peel & Stick remembers its access to that folder, and to folders you chose before, so that it can reach them again; it also remembers, with their locations, its access to “.pstick” files you drop onto a pad. The notes folder is yours: it may be included in your backups and, if you keep it in a location synchronized by iCloud Drive or another service, copied by that service under its own terms. We do not control what happens to the folder or to the files in it.

(c) Locked notes. When you lock a note, Peel & Stick puts its words and drawing into an encoded form - they are written out as text, which is reversed and then converted to base64 - keeps the note only in its own data folder, and removes its copy from your notes folder. This is encoding, not encryption: no key or secret is involved, and anyone with access to the file who knows how can read the note, as Section 5 of the Terms explains. The note’s paper, position, and dates stay readable. Peel & Stick’s data folder, including locked notes in encoded form, is included in backups of your Mac that cover it, such as Time Machine. If you set a PIN, Peel & Stick never stores the PIN itself: it keeps a random value and a hash derived from the PIN, used only to check a PIN you enter. When you open a locked note with Touch ID, an Apple Watch, or your login password, macOS performs the check and tells Peel & Stick only whether it succeeded; Peel & Stick never receives your fingerprint, your password, or any biometric data.

(d) Preferences. Your settings and choices, such as whether Peel & Stick appears in the Dock, whether you use the Board or the Classic pad, which pad you write on, where the tools sit, whether sounds are muted, your default for screen sharing, the idle-screen setting and its wait, whether pinned notes fade during full-screen apps, the paper you last used, and whether you have seen the welcome tour. If you turn on “Let Claude leave notes on your screen”, your preferences also hold that setting and its connection key; the key is stored with your preferences, not in your keychain, so other software running on your Mac can read it. macOS itself keeps Peel & Stick’s login item if you turn on “Open Peel & Stick when I log in”, and your choice about notifications.

(e) Search cache for pictures. If your notes folder contains pictures in PNG format, the Vault lists them, and Peel & Stick reads the words in them with Apple’s Vision framework, on your Mac, so that search can find them. The recognized text is kept in a cache file in Peel & Stick’s own data folder, which Peel & Stick marks to be left out of backups. Peel & Stick does not upload pictures or recognized text.

(f) Temporary files. When Peel & Stick writes a note to your notes folder, it first prepares the file in a temporary location on your Mac and then moves it into place; if Peel & Stick quits unexpectedly, such a temporary file may remain until macOS clears temporary files.

(g) Information held only in memory. While Peel & Stick runs, it keeps the notes you have open in your Mac’s memory, including a locked note you have opened. To make paper respond to movement, it observes the position of the pointer, and mouse clicks and drags, anywhere on your screen, and the position and size of other apps’ windows; to decide when your Mac is idle, it reads how long it has been since you last used your keyboard, mouse, or trackpad. This information is used only in memory while Peel & Stick runs. Peel & Stick does not record what you type in other apps, does not read the contents of other windows, and does not store or send any of this information. When you copy text from a note, or choose “Copy Instructions for Claude”, which include the connection key, the text is placed on the macOS clipboard, where other apps you use can read it.

(h) Technical log messages. Peel & Stick writes brief technical messages, such as whether a note could be saved, to the macOS log on your Mac. They are designed not to contain the words of your notes, although a message about a file may include its name, and a file in your notes folder is named after the note’s first line. They are not sent to us.

To remove what Peel & Stick keeps, delete your notes in Peel & Stick, or quit Peel & Stick and delete its data folder (Library ▸ Containers ▸ com.mahtca.app.macos.Sticky-My in your home folder), and delete the “.pstick” files in your notes folder; deleting the Peel & Stick app alone may leave its data folder and your notes folder in place. Copies may remain in your backups, such as Time Machine, and in any service that synchronizes your notes folder.

5. Processing on Your Mac

Peel & Stick’s features process your notes on your Mac. Writing, drawing, formatting, locking, search, and the Corkboard and Vault views run in Peel & Stick itself; reading words in pictures in your notes folder uses Apple’s Vision framework, which runs on your Mac; and the checks that it is you, when you open a locked note, are performed by macOS. Peel & Stick has no generative artificial-intelligence features and includes no machine-learning model of its own. None of this sends your notes to us.

6. Permissions and File Access

Peel & Stick runs inside the macOS App Sandbox. It can read and write its own data folder and, through the folder choice it offers, only the notes folder you choose and folders you chose before; it also reads the files and text you drop onto a pad. Peel & Stick asks for permission to show notifications only when a reminder is first set for a note, which is currently possible through its Shortcuts action “Set Reminder”. A reminder notification is shown by macOS with the note’s first line, or “Locked note” for a locked note, unless you hide notification previews. You can change your choice about notifications at any time in System Settings ▸ Notifications. Peel & Stick does not request access to your camera, microphone, location, contacts, calendars, photo library, Bluetooth, screen recording, input monitoring, or accessibility features, and it does not use an advertising identifier or track you across apps or websites. Its global keyboard shortcuts work without any of these permissions.

Peel & Stick has no server, and it does not send your notes, or information about you or your use of it, over the internet. It does not use iCloud to store, back up, or sync your notes. Purchases, restores, and purchase checks are handled by macOS and the App Store, and links you click open in your web browser.

Notes from Claude. If you turn on “Let Claude leave notes on your screen” in Settings, anything that has the connection key - such as a Claude session you give it to, or any app, script, or web page that opens a link containing the key - can place a plain-text note on your screen. Peel & Stick marks each such note “From Claude” and keeps it like any other note. Nothing is sent from Peel & Stick to Claude or to anyone else. What you tell a Claude session, and what that session does, is governed by its provider’s terms and privacy policy, not by this policy. The setting is off until you turn it on, and you can turn it off, or make a new key, at any time.

7. What Apple May Process (Not Us)

Some operations involve Apple’s services, where Apple - not MAHTCA GLOBAL - processes information under Apple’s own terms and privacy policy: (a) in-app purchases and subscriptions are processed by Apple, which is the merchant of record; Peel & Stick receives on your Mac only the signed records it needs to confirm what you have purchased, such as the product and its purchase, renewal, or expiry dates, and we do not receive your name, email address, Apple Account, or payment details; (b) Ask to Buy and, where it is enabled for a purchase, Family Sharing are provided by Apple; (c) if you have chosen in macOS to share analytics with app developers, Apple may provide us with crash reports and diagnostic information about Peel & Stick, which are designed not to identify you and are not intended to contain your notes - you control this setting in System Settings ▸ Privacy & Security ▸ Analytics & Improvements; (d) App Store analytics provide us with aggregated statistics that do not identify you; and (e) Touch ID and unlocking with an Apple Watch, notifications, the Shortcuts app, Siri, iCloud Drive, and device backups are Apple services governed by your Apple settings and Apple’s policies; when you choose a note in a shortcut, the Shortcuts app can show the first lines of your notes, with locked notes shown only as “Locked note”.

8. No Third-Party Services

Peel & Stick is built only with Apple’s own frameworks. It does not include analytics, crash-reporting, advertising, attribution, social-login, tracking, fingerprinting, or behavioural-profiling components, and it does not communicate with any servers operated by MAHTCA GLOBAL. We do not use your notes or any other data to train artificial-intelligence or machine-learning models, our own or anyone else’s.

9. This Website and Contacting Us

This website, www.peelandstick.mahtca.com, does not use cookies, analytics, advertising, or tracking. If you close its language suggestion, your browser remembers that choice in its own storage on your device; it is not sent to us. The Mac App Store badge on this website is loaded from Apple’s servers, so Apple receives that request under its own privacy policy. Like most websites, this website is served by a hosting provider whose servers may keep standard technical logs - such as IP addresses, the pages requested, and the date and time - for security and operation; we do not use them to identify or profile visitors.

If you email us, for example at peelandstick@mahtca.com or office@mahtca.com, we receive your email address and whatever you choose to include, and we use them only to answer you and to handle your request, including any legal claim. We do so to take the steps you ask for and on the basis of our legitimate interest in answering you, and, where needed, to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims or to meet a legal obligation. We keep that correspondence only as long as needed for those purposes or as required by law, and we do not use it for marketing. Please do not send us the contents of your notes, or personal data, that we do not need to help you.

10. Privacy Roles

Because MAHTCA GLOBAL never sees or holds your notes, we do not act as a “controller” or “processor” of their content within the meaning of the EU General Data Protection Regulation, the UK GDPR, or equivalent laws. When you use Peel & Stick to write, store, pin, or display notes - including notes that contain personal data about you or other people - you determine the purposes and means of that processing on your own device, and you are responsible for handling that data lawfully. MAHTCA GLOBAL is the controller only of the correspondence you send us and of the operation of this website, as described in Section 9.

11. Children

Peel & Stick is a general-audience app; it is not designed specifically for children, and it has no account and no chat or messaging features. You must be at least 13 years old to use Peel & Stick, or older where your country requires, and if you are under the age of majority you may use Peel & Stick only with the consent and involvement of a parent or legal guardian, as described in Section 10 of the Terms. Purchases go through the App Store, where a parent can require approval with Apple’s Ask to Buy. We do not knowingly collect any data from anyone, including children; because nothing is transmitted to us from Peel & Stick, there is no children’s data for us to hold, delete, or report.

12. International Users

Peel & Stick is available through Apple’s App Store. Because your notes do not leave your Mac to reach us, no transfer of your content takes place between you and MAHTCA GLOBAL. You remain subject to the data-protection law of your country of residence in your own use of Peel & Stick, including any obligations you owe to people whose personal data appears in your notes.

13. Your Rights

Because your information stays on your Mac, you exercise control over it directly: you can view, change, or delete your notes; remove a lock; delete the files in your notes folder or choose another folder; turn off “Let Claude leave notes on your screen” or make a new key; and delete Peel & Stick and its data folder, as described in Section 4. Because MAHTCA GLOBAL holds no personal data of yours from Peel & Stick, we are generally unable to act on requests to access, rectify, erase, restrict, port, or object to the processing of that data, as the data does not exist on our systems. If you have written to us, you may ask us to access, correct, or delete that correspondence, subject to any legal obligation to keep it. If you believe a data-protection right has been infringed by MAHTCA GLOBAL, contact office@mahtca.com. In Romania, you may also lodge a complaint with the National Supervisory Authority for Personal Data Processing (ANSPDCP, www.dataprotection.ro); elsewhere, with your local supervisory authority.

14. Security

Peel & Stick runs inside the App Sandbox enforced by macOS, and because we have no servers that hold your notes, there is no server-side copy of your content to attack. Peel & Stick does not encrypt your notes: notes that are not locked are stored as readable text, and locked notes are encoded, not encrypted. The information Peel & Stick keeps on your Mac is therefore protected only by your Mac’s own protections, such as your macOS user account and, where you turn it on, FileVault; anyone who can use your macOS user account, and software running as you, may be able to read your notes. We recommend a strong login password, FileVault, and encrypted backups. You are responsible for securing your Mac, keeping macOS up to date, maintaining backups, and controlling who can access your Mac, your notes folder, and your backups. If we become aware of a security issue in Peel & Stick that could affect you, we will publish a fix through the App Store and, where required by law, notify the relevant authorities.

15. Backups and Data Loss

Peel & Stick cannot guarantee that your notes, or the changes you make to them, will be preserved. Crashes, power failures, full disks, and other interruptions can damage or destroy notes, including while they are being saved, deleting a note is permanent, and we hold no copy from which anything could be recovered. Keep a copy of every important note and regular backups, as described in Sections 2 to 5 of the Terms.

16. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in Peel & Stick, applicable law, Apple’s requirements, or our practices. When we do, the version number and effective date change, and the updated policy is published at www.peelandstick.mahtca.com/privacy/, which is the authoritative version. A summary of our privacy practices shown within Peel & Stick is provided for your convenience and may lag this published version; where they differ, this published version controls. Where a change materially affects your rights, we will use reasonable efforts to inform you before it takes effect. If you do not accept an update, your remedy is to stop using and delete Peel & Stick.

17. Trader Information and Language

MAHTCA GLOBAL, Bechetului, Nr. 26, Malu Mare, Dolj, Romania; Romanian Trade Register: J16/663/2018; VAT / CUI: 39070729; office@mahtca.com. This Privacy Policy is provided in English. Translations may be provided for convenience; if there is a conflict, the English version controls, except where applicable law requires otherwise.

18. App Privacy Declaration

MAHTCA GLOBAL declares in App Store Connect that Peel & Stick collects no data of any category and does not use data for tracking, and Peel & Stick’s privacy manifest declares the same: it lists no tracking, no tracking domains, and no collected data types. As Apple requires, the privacy manifest also states why Peel & Stick uses certain system features: its own settings; the dates of files in its own data folder and in the notes folder you choose; and the time since your Mac started, used only on your Mac to measure the time between events, such as pen samples when you draw and the movements that make paper respond to the pointer and to other windows. The App Privacy section of Peel & Stick’s App Store listing reflects this declaration, and this Privacy Policy is the source of truth for it.