Privacy policy

Applies to the Facet application for macOS. Last updated 15 August 2026.

The short version. Facet runs entirely on your Mac. Your categories and your recorded time are stored on your own computer, in a file you can open, and they are not sent anywhere. There are no accounts, no servers of ours, and no analytics of any kind. The one time Facet talks to the internet is when you choose to connect a Google account, and then it talks to Google directly, on your behalf, and to nobody else.

Who this is from

Facet is made by Harry Phillips, in Australia. For anything in this policy, write to facet@tux.com.au.

What Facet records, and where it keeps it

Facet records what you would expect a time tracker to record:

the categories you create, with their names, colours and icons;
which category each face of your tracker is assigned to;
the stretches of time you spend on each one, as a start time and a duration;
events reported by the tracker, such as battery level and which face is up;
your settings, including your daily reset time and your paired device.

All of it is written to a SQLite database inside your own user Library folder, under Application Support. The file belongs to you. It is not uploaded, mirrored or backed up by Facet, and it is included in your Time Machine backups only because everything in that folder is.

What Facet does not do

There is no account to create and no login to Facet itself.
There are no analytics, no telemetry, no crash reporting and no advertising, from us or from any third party. The app contains no third party tracking code.
We operate no servers that your data could be sent to, because there are none to send it to.
Nothing is sold or shared, because nothing reaches us in the first place.

Your tracker

Facet communicates with a TimeFlip2 tracker over Bluetooth Low Energy, directly between the device and your Mac. macOS asks your permission for Bluetooth the first time, and you can withdraw it in System Settings. The tracker's own manufacturer is not involved in this and receives nothing from Facet.

Google Calendar, if you turn it on

Facet can write your recorded time to Google Calendar so that it sits alongside the rest of your day. This is optional and is off until you connect an account. If you never connect one, nothing in this section happens and Facet makes no network connections at all.

What Facet asks for

Your name, email address and profile picture (the openid, userinfo.email and userinfo.profile scopes), so the app can show you which account is connected. This is displayed in the app and stored on your Mac. It is not sent anywhere else.
Permission to manage a calendar that Facet itself creates (the calendar.app.created scope). Facet makes its own calendar in your account and writes your time entries there as events. This permission does not give Facet access to your existing calendars, and it cannot read, change or delete anything that Facet did not create.

What Facet does with it

Google user data is used for one purpose: putting your own recorded time into your own calendar, at your request. Each event carries the category name, the start and end times, and nothing else. The connection is made from your Mac straight to Google's API. It does not pass through any system of ours, and we never see it.

Where the permission is kept

The access and refresh tokens that let Facet act on your behalf are stored in the macOS Keychain on your own Mac, protected by your login. They are not transmitted anywhere other than to Google, and they are not stored in the app's database.

Limited use

Facet's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs to any other app will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

In plain terms, and to be explicit about the things that policy forbids: Google user data is never used for advertising, is never sold or transferred to anyone, is never used to build a profile of you, and is never read by a human, including us.

Disconnecting

You can disconnect the account inside Facet at any time, which deletes the stored tokens from your Keychain and stops any further syncing. You can also revoke Facet's access from Google's own side at myaccount.google.com/permissions, which has the same effect and does not depend on the app. Events already written to your calendar stay in your calendar, and are yours to keep or delete.

Deleting your data

Because your data lives on your Mac, you delete it the way you delete anything else on your Mac: remove Facet's folder from Application Support, or drag the app to the Trash and remove that folder afterwards. There is nothing held elsewhere that we could delete on your behalf, and no request you need to send us to have it done.

Children

Facet is not directed at children and is not designed for use by them.

Changes to this policy

If the app's handling of data changes, this page changes with it, and the date at the top changes too. Where a change affects what Facet asks of your Google account, you will be asked to approve the new permissions before it takes effect, because Google requires it.