Privacy Policy

In short

HuddleBell is a small macOS menu-bar utility that shows you today's Google Meet meetings. It stores Google tokens and app preferences locally on your Mac. HuddleBell does not operate a server-side calendar database, and it does not include advertising.

• HuddleBell reads your Google Calendar in read-only mode. It cannot create, edit, or delete events.
• Calendar data is fetched directly from Google to your Mac and is used locally by the app.
• Your Google sign-in tokens are stored in the macOS Keychain, on your Mac.
• HuddleBell does not include analytics SDKs or advertising frameworks.
• HuddleBell does not sell, share, transfer, or disclose Google user data to third parties.
• Calendar sync traffic goes directly to Google's APIs, on your behalf.

What HuddleBell can see

When you sign in with Google, HuddleBell requests these OAuth scopes:

https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar.calendarlist.readonly

https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar.events.readonly

https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.email

The calendar scopes grant read-only access to your calendar list and calendar event details. HuddleBell uses them to list calendars, read today's events, and pick out the ones with a Google Meet link, so it can show your day in the menu bar and offer a join path. The email scope is used to identify connected Google accounts inside the app, especially when you connect more than one account. HuddleBell does not request scopes that allow editing, creating, deleting, or sharing events.

Where data lives

On your Mac

• OAuth tokens (access and refresh tokens, plus your account email) are stored in the macOS Keychain.
• Preferences (e.g. which accounts are connected, display options) are stored in the standard macOS preferences location for the app.
• Calendar data is used locally to show today's and upcoming Meet information and schedule local reminders.

Sent to Google

HuddleBell talks directly to Google's Calendar API to fetch your events. This communication is between your Mac and Google over HTTPS. We do not proxy or intermediate this traffic.

Sent to us

HuddleBell does not have a backend service that stores your calendar data or account information.

Sharing, transfer, and disclosure of Google user data

HuddleBell does not sell, rent, share, transfer, or disclose Google user data to third parties. This includes Google Calendar data, Google Meet links found in calendar events, OAuth tokens, and connected Google account email addresses.

HuddleBell does not disclose Google user data to advertising platforms, data brokers, analytics providers, AI model providers, or other external services. HuddleBell does not use Google user data for advertising, retargeting, credit decisions, or training AI/ML models.

The only external communication involving Google user data is the direct HTTPS communication between the HuddleBell app on your Mac and Google's APIs, on your behalf, to authenticate your account and read your selected calendar data. When you choose to join a meeting, HuddleBell opens the Google Meet link in your browser through Google's account chooser.

Multiple Google accounts

If you connect more than one Google account, HuddleBell stores a separate token bundle for each account in the Keychain. Each account is queried independently. You can disconnect any account at any time from HuddleBell's preferences; doing so removes that account's tokens from your Keychain immediately.

Revoking access

You can revoke HuddleBell's access to a Google account at any time:

• Inside HuddleBell, remove the account from preferences.
• Or from your Google Account at myaccount.google.com/permissions, select HuddleBell, and remove access.

Removing access invalidates the tokens stored on your Mac. HuddleBell stops fetching events for that account immediately.

Children

HuddleBell is a productivity utility intended for general audiences. It is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect data from children.

Changes to this policy

If we change this policy, we'll update the "Last updated" date at the top of this page and, where reasonable, mention the change in a future release of HuddleBell.