Privacy policy

Effective 22 October 2026

The short version

Latch runs entirely on your Mac. It has no account, no analytics and no network code, so nothing you do in Latch is sent anywhere.

What Latch stores

Latch keeps its settings in your Mac's user preferences:

• The apps you chose to guard: name, bundle identifier and location on disk.
• Your choices for when to lock, such as the grace period and idle time.

Deleting Latch and its preferences removes all of it.

Touch ID and your password

Latch asks macOS to check it's you, using Apple's LocalAuthentication framework. macOS shows the prompt and handles your fingerprint or password. Latch only learns whether the check passed. It never sees, stores or sends biometric data or passwords.

What Latch watches

To know when to lock, Latch notices which app is in front, when apps open or quit, how long since your last key press or click, and when the screen locks or the Mac sleeps. It uses this only in the moment, keeps no history, and records nothing you type.

This website

This site loads no trackers or third-party fonts. Like any web host, the server may keep standard access logs.

Contact

Questions about privacy: hexhad@gmail.com