GitLab Bar — Privacy policy

Overview

GitLab Bar (“the app”) is a native macOS menu bar application that connects to GitLab instances you choose (GitLab.com or self-hosted) using credentials you provide.

Data the app collects

• GitLab base URL — stored in app preferences (User Defaults) on your Mac.
• Personal Access Token — stored locally on your Mac in an encrypted file (see below).
• Usage data — the distributed app does not include analytics or crash reporting to the developer. Information you see in the app is fetched from your chosen GitLab host only.

The app fetches from your GitLab server the information you request in the UI (for example: profile, to-dos, merge requests, projects, pipelines, activity). That data is held in memory and on-disk caches only for app functionality; it is not sent to jaywad.com or other servers operated by the developer.

How tokens are stored

Tokens are stored in a file under your user’s Application Support directory. In a Mac App Store (sandboxed) build, that path is inside the app’s container, for example:

~/Library/Containers/com.scaleup.gitlabbar/Data/Library/Application Support/GitLabBar/

The file is encrypted at rest using a key derived on your Mac. The app does not send your token to any server except the GitLab host you configured, over HTTPS (or HTTP if you enter an HTTP URL).

Third parties

• GitLab — You choose the instance; API requests go only to that URL. See GitLab’s privacy policy for data they hold.
• Apple — If you install from the Mac App Store, Apple processes distribution per Apple’s privacy policy.

Your choices

• Remove saved tokens and URLs in the app’s Settings / preferences.
• Uninstall the app and remove the com.scaleup.gitlabbar sandbox container if you want to delete local data entirely.

Children

The app is not directed at children under 13.

Contact

Jamal Awad — jaywad.com — questions via the site contact form or GitHub.

Open source

Source for the app may be published separately; this policy describes behaviour of the binary distributed via the Mac App Store. Third-party builds are outside this policy.