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CleanBar empties your bar and holds notifications.
Last updated 7 September 2026
What we collect
CleanBar has no account system and does not require you to provide your name, email address, or other account details to use the app. We may collect limited app usage, performance, diagnostic, and technical analytics to understand how CleanBar is used, identify issues, and improve the app.
Depending on the analytics or diagnostic service used, this information may include your IP address, device and operating system version, app version, crash and error information, and a device identifier.
We use this information for analytics, performance monitoring, troubleshooting, security, and improving CleanBar. We do not use it to serve targeted advertising or build advertising profiles.
The apps contain no advertising.
What it can see
To empty your bar, CleanBar needs permission to read and rearrange the items in it. That is the whole of its access.
It does not capture your screen, read window contents, record keystrokes, or look at the documents you are presenting. Held notifications are passed straight back to the system when you restore the bar; their contents are never written to disk by CleanBar.
What stays on your device
Your presets and settings are saved locally so the app behaves the same next time:
- Which preset is active and what each one keeps
- Your keyboard shortcut
- Whether calendar triggering is on, and which calendar
- Whether CleanBar starts at login
These live in the standard settings location on your own machine. We cannot read them, and uninstalling removes them.
Network connections
The apps may make limited outbound network connections to send app usage, performance, diagnostic, and technical analytics. Depending on the analytics or diagnostic service used, this information may include your IP address, device and operating system version, app version, crash and error information, and a device identifier.
These connections help us understand how the app is used, monitor performance and reliability, diagnose problems, and improve CleanBar over time.
Calendar access
Calendar triggering is off unless you turn it on. When enabled, CleanBar reads only the start times of events you have marked, so it knows when to clean. Titles, guests and notes are not read, stored or transmitted.
This website
The site is static: no advertising. The only third-party request is to Google Fonts for the two typefaces, which exposes your IP address to Google as part of serving the file. Ask and we will send you a build with the fonts hosted locally.
Our host keeps ordinary server logs for security and troubleshooting. They are not linked to a person or used for profiling.
If you email us
We keep your message and address long enough to answer you. No mailing list, no sharing. Ask us to delete the thread and we will.
Children
CleanBar is a general-purpose utility and is not aimed at children. We do not knowingly ask children to provide personal information. The limited technical and analytics information described in this policy may be collected when the app is used.
Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, export, object to certain processing of, or erase personal data held about you. This may include information contained in support emails and, where it can reasonably be associated with you, limited analytics or diagnostic data described in this policy. Contact us if you want to make a privacy request.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. We will update this policy if the types of information we collect or the ways we use it materially change.
Contact
Questions go to hello@cleanbarapp.com.