Privacy

The Headroom app collects nothing. Your files never leave your Mac. This website counts visits without cookies.

Last updated 15 November 2026

The app

Every scan, check and clean runs on your Mac. Headroom has no accounts, no analytics, no crash reporting and no tracking of any kind. It never uploads your files, their names or anything it finds.

The only time Headroom goes online is to check your licence key with Polar, the company that sells and checks Headroom licences. That happens when you add or remove the key on a Mac, and about once a week to confirm it is still valid. Each check sends two things:

• the licence key you pasted in
• a label for this Mac, so you can see which Macs use your key

Nothing else is ever sent. Without a licence key, Headroom makes no network requests at all.

This website

The site uses no cookies and no third-party trackers. Fonts and images are served from this site, not from other services.

To know how many people visit, the site counts visits itself, without cookies. When a page opens, or you click Download or Buy, the site records:

• the page, and the website that linked you here, if any
• campaign tags in the link, such as utm_source
• your browser, operating system and type of device, worked out from your browser’s user agent
• your country, as reported by the hosting network

IP addresses are not stored. To count unique visitors, the server mixes your IP address and user agent with the date and a secret value and keeps only a short one-way hash. Because the date is part of it, the hash changes every day, so a visit today cannot be linked to a visit tomorrow.

If your browser sends Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control, nothing is recorded.

The site is hosted on Vercel, which handles requests to deliver the pages. Visit counts are stored in a database run by Neon in the United States.

When you buy

Checkout is run by Polar, the merchant of record. Polar receives the details you enter at checkout, such as your email address and payment details, to take payment, send your receipt and licence key, and handle tax. Polar’s own privacy policy covers that information. Headroom never sees your card details.

Questions

Reply to your receipt email or email support@headroomapp.shop.