What we never collect
Stare does not collect your video. It does not collect your audio. It does not collect your facial geometry, the output of any ML inference run on your Mac, or any frame your camera captures. None of it is uploaded, transmitted, sampled, or stored anywhere outside your computer. There is no opt-in or opt-out for this — it simply does not happen.
What stays on your Mac
Camera frames, the Core ML model that performs gaze correction, the Vision face-landmark output, every byte the gaze correction touches. The system extension that does the work runs in a sandboxed user-space process and writes the corrected frames straight to a virtual camera output that other apps consume. Nothing in this pipeline opens a network socket.
What we do collect
Three things, all minimal:
- Your email address — so you have an account that knows your trial status.
- License validation pings — the app periodically asks the server whether your trial is still active or your purchase is valid. These pings carry your license token only.
- Crash reports — only if you opt in, and only via Apple's standard crash reporting. We never see your video.
Where the data lives
Account email and license records are stored in Supabase, a Postgres-as-a-service host. We use no third-party analytics. We use no advertising SDKs. We use no marketing trackers, retargeting pixels, or session recorders. There is no data on this site or in this app that could be sold to a third party, because we do not have any.
Your rights
You can request a full export of any account data we hold, or request that we delete your account, by emailing us at support. We will action requests within 30 days.