Mailshelf
Privacy Policy
No accounts, ads, analytics or tracking, and nothing about you or your work is sent to us.
This policy explains how Mailshelf (“the app”), a Mac app: export Apple Mail messages to searchable PDFs, with attachments and an index, developed by Kevin Fitzgerald, handles information.
Information we collect
None. Mailshelf 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 settings: the mail folder to read, paper size, export options and whether you’ve seen the welcome screen
- Your license key, in your Mac’s Keychain
Settings are in Mailshelf’s preferences and the license key in your Keychain. Mailshelf keeps no copy of your mail: it reads Apple Mail’s files when you use it. Exports are new files, written only where you choose.
Your mail
Mailshelf runs outside Apple’s App Sandbox because it reads Apple Mail’s folder (~/Library/Mail), which macOS opens only to apps you give Full Disk Access. It opens Mail’s files for reading only and never changes, moves or deletes them. Your mail is never uploaded or sent anywhere, and remote images in messages are never loaded.
Network
Mailshelf is sold directly through Gumroad, and its only network requests are the license check with Gumroad (your license key, when you enter it and about once a week) and checks for app updates at fitztoppicks.com. Neither sends anything about your mail.
Purchases
Mailshelf 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.