Privacy policy

What stays on your Mac.

The app stores your reported water amounts and their timestamps, wake and sleep schedule, chosen water goal, reminder preferences, snooze state and companion placement in local macOS app storage. It uses these records to show progress, animate the companion and schedule local notifications.

The app does not transmit your water records or schedule to us. It has no account system, advertising, tracking or third party analytics SDK. It does not use cloud sync, look up weather, collect your location, or connect to Apple Health.

Permissions you control.

Notifications are optional and scheduled locally. You can change notification permission in macOS System Settings. Opening at login is optional and can be disabled in the app or your Mac’s Login Items settings.

The app does not request your contacts, photos, microphone or camera. Its expressions are fictional reactions to your logged drinks, not measurements of your health.

When you visit this website.

Cloudflare hosts these pages. To deliver them and protect its network, Cloudflare processes connection information such as your IP address, the requested URL, request time and technical request headers. Its handling of operational and security information is governed by its service settings and privacy policy.

We do not add advertising scripts, analytics beacons, social embeds or contact form trackers to this website. Fonts and app imagery are served from this site. The interactive companion preview does not record water intake or store a profile. Your theme choice may be kept in this browser tab during your visit using session storage. We do not set advertising or analytics cookies. Hosting security features may use technical mechanisms needed to deliver or protect the site.

Website connection information is separate from your app’s water log. The app does not upload its records when you open a website link.

If you email support.

We receive your email address and whatever you choose to include. Our email provider processes the message so we can respond. We use support correspondence to answer requests and resolve problems, and retain it as needed for those purposes and applicable record keeping obligations.

Please send only the information needed to explain an issue. You can request access to or deletion of support correspondence by emailing support@meldorigins.com. We do not sell your support messages or use them for advertising profiles.

Apple services and your backups.

Apple handles the App Store, TestFlight and any platform diagnostics you choose to share under Apple’s privacy policies. Apple may make store performance information and optional diagnostic reports available to developers. That does not give us access to your stored water log.

Your Mac or Time Machine backups may contain app data according to your backup settings. You control those backups. There is no Missy Sippy server account that stores or restores your water history.

Keeping and removing your local data.

Your local entries and preferences remain until you remove the relevant app data. “Reset today’s water” only clears the current waking day; it does not erase all history or preferences. Deleting the app itself may leave local app data behind on macOS.

For complete removal, first quit Missy Sippy. In Finder, choose Go → Go to Folder and open ~/Library/Containers/. Locate the Missy Sippy container, identified by com.meldorigins.missysippy, and move only that app’s container to the Trash. This removes its local records and preferences. macOS may show the app name instead of the bundle identifier. If you cannot identify the folder, contact support before removing it.

Remove backup copies separately using your backup provider’s controls if you wish to delete those as well. We cannot erase or recover records on your Mac remotely.

Questions and changes.

Contact support@meldorigins.com about this policy or your support correspondence. Local app records are managed on your Mac because we do not receive them.

If the app’s data handling changes, we will update this page and its date. New sync, account or analytics features would need an updated explanation before being described by this policy.