Privacy Policy

Mic Drop is a super-simple little Mac menubar app made by your friends at Octopus Think. 🐙💡

By default, Mic Drop collects absolutely no data about you, your computer, or your usage of the app.

Microphone access

By default, Mic Drop doesn't record, save, or otherwise listen to what you're saying. It can only mute and unmute your microphone. The app doesn't ask to access your microphone, because it doesn't need to hear what you're saying.

You’ll notice that Mic Drop will request microphone access if you open the “Mic Check” status window. This is to show your audio output, but this sound is never saved/recorded and the processing is done entirely on-device with our own code.

We don't listen in.

Crash reports and usage statistics

Analytics are completely optional and opt-in. We'll never sell your information to advertisers, third-parties, or that kid who was mean to you in first grade.

• Anonymous usage statistics—stuff like how many times you press mute, whether you use the status window, and if you've changed the keyboard shortcut from the default.
• The version number of Mic Drop you're using.
• Crash logs and info about audio devices connected to your Mac.
• The type of Mac you have and the version of macOS you're running.

If you opt-in, this usage data is uploaded to our Firebase Analytics account, but contains no personally identifiable information about you or your usage of Mic Drop.

Billing info

We don’t collect, store, or process your billing information and we don’t have access to your credit card information. If you make an in-app purchase, Apple processes your payment info.

Contact information

By default, we don’t have access to your contact information or any other personal identifier.

If you sign up for our newsletter or beta programme, we’ll have access to your email address. This information will be retained until you unsubscribe or the mailing list hasn’t been used for a period of three years. You can unsubscribe at any point.

If you contact us with a support request, we’ll have access to your email address, name, and any other identifiers included in your email. This information will be stored for as long as we are actively continuing to work on the app.

Managing your data

If you’d like us to remove all of your personal data from our system, or if you’d like a copy of the data we have about you, please contact us at hi@octopusthink.com.

Since we’re a small two-person company, this is a manual process, but we’ll do our best to get it sorted within a week.

Newsletters

When you sign up for our beta programme or newsletter, we store your information with Buttondown, a privacy-conscious newsletter provider. We don’t track opens, clicks, or anything else beyond when you subscribed and when you unsubscribe. If you unsubscribe your data is retained on Buttondown in accordance with their privacy policy unless you request that we delete your information.

Cookies on this website

We don’t use any persistent cookies on this website. Any cookies used on this site are session cookies only and expire immediately after you leave the site. 🍪

Our stance on privacy

Your data is yours. We only collect data you agree to share. You can opt out at any time. Nothing we collect can identify you personally, either by way of a unique ID or by your usage patterns. We’re not interested in spying on you. 🙈

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