Privacy Policy

Effective September 29, 2026

The short version: GuidedSpace itself does not collect your data or your children’s data, and nothing about them is sent to us.

No accounts, ads, analytics or tracking, and nothing about you or your work is sent to us.

This policy explains how GuidedSpace (“the app”), a Mac app that gives young kids a full-screen space with the websites a parent approves, developed by Kevin Fitzgerald, handles information.

Information we collect

None. GuidedSpace does not collect, store, sell or share personal information on any server, and it does not include analytics, advertising, crash-reporting or tracking tools of any kind.

Information stored on your Mac

To work, the app keeps the following on your Mac only:

Your parent PIN, kept only as a salted, one-way hash (PBKDF2), never the PIN itself
Each kid’s name, picture, color, age, timer, schedule and daily limit, and which tiles are on their desk
The websites you approve, with their names, pictures and any sites they may also open
How many minutes each kid has used today, for daily limits, and the parent report: time per tile, website, game and activity per kid per day, for the last 60 days
Each kid’s game levels, typing stage, stars, chores and the minutes they asked to trade
Drawings and coloring pages a kid saves to their gallery, and the pieces they save in My Writing
Picture books and PDFs you add to the reading corner (copied into GuidedSpace’s storage), with a bookmark per kid
Each kid’s website data, such as cookies, kept separately for each kid by macOS’s web engine
Whether Touch ID is turned on, and for which Mac account
Your GuidedSpace license key, if you enter one, kept in your Mac’s Keychain

It stays in GuidedSpace’s own storage on your Mac (and the license key in your Keychain) and is never sent to us. Grown-ups can delete saved drawings and writing in Games and Activities. “Forgot your PIN?” erases GuidedSpace’s settings and activities.

Websites

The websites you approve load directly from those sites, just as they would in a browser, and they may set their own cookies under their own privacy policies. GuidedSpace adds no tracking, ads or analytics of its own. Pages, links and new windows are limited to the sites you approve; videos and games embedded from other sites play unless you turn that off in PIN and Safety. Links that would open another app, downloads and file pickers never work.

Touch ID

If you turn Touch ID on for your own Mac account, macOS checks your fingerprint and tells GuidedSpace only whether it matched. GuidedSpace never sees your fingerprint.

The lock

While a session runs, GuidedSpace asks macOS to hide the Dock and menu bar and turn off app switching, Force Quit and similar shortcuts. It doesn’t open, watch or record other apps or what your child types, and it uses no Accessibility or Screen Time access.

Network

Besides loading the websites you approve, GuidedSpace goes online for only two things: checking your license with Gumroad (your license key, when you enter it and about once a week) and checking for app updates at fitztoppicks.com, only on the start screen and never during a kid’s session. Neither sends anything about your kids. The games, drawing, typing, sports, sounds and art are all built in and work offline.

Updates and license checks

GuidedSpace, downloaded directly from Gumroad or fitztoppicks.com and signed with Apple’s Developer ID, checks for app updates with Sparkle, a standard open-source updater: it downloads a small update list (an appcast) from fitztoppicks.com, which sees only the app’s version and, like any website, your internet address, and it downloads an update only when one is available and you choose to install it (or have turned on automatic updates). When you enter a license key, GuidedSpace sends that key to Gumroad to verify it, and checks it again about once a week; that is all it sends to Gumroad. Neither sends anything about you, your files or how you use the app.

Purchases

GuidedSpace is sold directly through Gumroad, which handles payment and sends your receipt and license key; we never see your payment details. The app sends your license key to Gumroad to check it (when you enter it and about once a week); that is all it sends to Gumroad.

Children’s privacy

Because the app collects no personal information from anyone, it does not knowingly collect personal information from children.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new effective date. If the app ever begins collecting data, this policy will be updated before that happens.

Contact

Questions about this policy or the app: help@fitztoppicks.com.