Privacy Policy

What we collect

Nothing.

Framevia Studio runs entirely on your Mac and does not connect to any Joy Truepath-operated server. We collect:

• No personal information
• No usage analytics or telemetry
• No crash reports (unless you choose to send one by emailing us)
• No animations, frames, layers, or media you create with the app
• No identifiers, advertising IDs, or fingerprints

What stays on your device

The following information is stored locally on your Mac and never leaves it:

• Projects. Animation files (.ad / .ad2) are saved wherever you tell the system Save dialog to put them, plus a working library inside the app's sandbox container at ~/Library/Containers/com.joytruepath.frameviastudio.mac/Data/Library/Application Support/Framevia Studio/.
• Preferences. Brush settings, recent and pinned projects, frame-strip zoom level, onboarding-seen flag, and similar in-app preferences live in your Mac's standard UserDefaults store.
• Autosave snapshots. NSDocument's standard autosave writes recovery copies next to your project files so a crash mid-edit doesn't lose work.

Permissions we request

Framevia Studio uses the standard macOS sandbox. It does not request any TCC (Transparency, Consent, and Control) permissions — no Camera, Microphone, Screen Recording, or Location. The only permission flow you may see is the standard system file-picker when you choose where to save or open a project.

Network usage

The app itself makes no outbound network requests during normal operation. The only times it opens a URL are:

• When you click Send Feedback or the support link in About — opens your default mail client to [email protected]
• When you click Help → Open Privacy Policy / Support — opens this website in your default browser
• When you click Check for Updates — opens the Mac App Store product page (updates are delivered through Apple, not through us)

Each of those actions is initiated by you. The app does not phone home, check for updates automatically, or send any data to us. App Store updates happen through the Mac App Store, which Apple manages separately under Apple's privacy policy.

Third parties

We do not use any third-party SDK, analytics provider, advertising network, or backend service in v2.0 and later. The app is a single signed binary that runs in Apple's sandbox.

Earlier (pre-v2.0) builds shipped Google Analytics for in-app product-interaction events. The v2.0 release strips that tracker out entirely — no analytics SDK is present in the binary.

Children

Framevia Studio is rated 4+ and is suitable for all ages. We do not knowingly collect any information from anyone, including children.

Changes to this policy

If we ever change the data practices described here, we will update this page and the "Effective" date at the top. Material changes will also be announced in the app's "What's New" sheet on first launch after the update.

Contact

Questions or concerns: [email protected]