BLOOM / PRIVACY

Your Mac. Your choice.

Updated September 19, 2026.

Usage sharing is optional and off by default. Saying no does not reduce Free or Pro features. Your earnings and Darkbloom account data stay on your Mac.

If you choose to share usage

Bloom sends a small daily summary to Bloom’s own reporting service, with updates no more than every six hours apart from changes such as setup or trial activation:

• A randomly generated reporting ID, separate from your installation ID used for Pro licensing.
• UTC date, Bloom version, macOS major version, chip family and a broad memory-size group.
• Whether setup completed, the dashboard was opened, a trial-request message was prepared, Pro was active, the phone dashboard was used, or the optimizer was used that day.
• A broad setup-error category, such as “connection” or “provider,” without error text or logs.

This reporting is pseudonymous, not fully anonymous: the random ID connects one Mac’s reports across days. It does not tell us your identity. We do not collect earnings, prompts, account identifiers, licensing IDs, serial numbers, personal names, email addresses, account tokens, passwords, private phone URLs or raw logs through usage reporting.

Control and deletion

Change your choice in Bloom on your Mac. Turning sharing off immediately stops collection and queues deletion of that reporting ID and its reports from the service. If offline, Bloom keeps only the credentials needed to retry deletion and shows that deletion is pending. It confirms removal only after the service responds. A one-way deletion receipt, containing no reports or raw reporting ID, remains for 30 days to prevent delayed requests from recreating deleted reports.

The service keeps a rolling 30-day app-reporting window. Expired records are removed during reporting requests and owner-dashboard refreshes. It keeps aggregate download counts for up to 90 days under the same cleanup process. Reports are visible only in the private owner dashboard; they are not sold or used for advertising.

Downloads and hosting

The website counts installer requests by UTC day and version, without a cookie or device identifier for that count. Repeat downloads can be counted more than once. These totals do not tell us how many people installed or used Bloom.

Hosting and network providers necessarily process IP addresses and other request metadata to deliver and secure the website. Bloom’s app-reporting database does not store IP addresses. Signing in with ChatGPT is required only for the private owner dashboard, not for downloading Bloom or using the beta.

Trial requests and feedback

Requesting a Pro trial prepares a message you can review and copy. It includes your installation ID and Bloom version. Nothing is sent automatically; you choose whether to DM copyfax in the Darkbloom Slack. Information you voluntarily send in Slack or by email is separate from optional app reporting. Please review diagnostics and screenshots before sharing them.

For privacy questions, contact Andrew on Slack or by email.