We collect nothing.

What we collect

Nothing. Apple TV Remote for Mac does not collect, transmit, store, or share any personal information, usage data, telemetry, crash reports, analytics, identifiers, or behavioral data of any kind.

The app has no user accounts, no sign-in flow, no cloud sync, and no backend infrastructure operated by the developer.

What stays on your Mac

For the app to function, a small amount of data is stored locally on your Mac, inside the app's sandbox container at ~/Library/Containers/N8.AppleTV/:

• Pairing credentials for each Apple TV you've paired with. These are issued by the Apple TV during pairing and are the equivalent of a per-device password. They are written to a local file and never sent anywhere except back to the Apple TV they belong to.
• User preferences — your gesture configuration, the active Apple TV, window size and position, and similar UI state. Stored via standard macOS UserDefaults.

This data never leaves your Mac. macOS's standard backup mechanisms (Time Machine, iCloud's "Desktop & Documents" if you've enabled it for Library data, etc.) treat it like any other app's local data.

Network access

The app needs Local Network permission to find Apple TVs on your home Wi-Fi. macOS asks you to grant this permission the first time you run the app. The permission applies only to the local network — the app does not communicate with any servers on the public internet.

All network traffic the app generates falls into one of these categories:

• Bonjour discovery — multicast DNS-SD on the local network to find Apple TVs that have advertised themselves. The app only listens for responses; it doesn't broadcast information about your Mac.
• Apple's Companion protocol — direct communication between your Mac and the paired Apple TV(s) on your local network. This is the same protocol Apple's own iOS Remote app uses.

Nothing is sent to the developer, to Apple, to analytics services, or to any third party.

Third-party libraries

The app embeds pyatv, an open-source Python library that implements the Apple TV Companion protocol. pyatv runs entirely on your Mac and communicates only with your paired Apple TVs. It does not phone home, log to remote servers, or collect telemetry.

The full Python interpreter (CPython 3.12) and pyatv are bundled inside the app and execute in-process. No code is downloaded or executed from the network at runtime.

Children

The app is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect any data — from anyone, including children under 13.

Changes to this policy

If this policy ever changes — for example, if a future version of the app adds an optional feature that processes data differently — the change will be reflected here and the "Last updated" date at the top will be revised. Material changes will also be called out in the app's release notes on the Mac App Store.

Contact

Questions about this policy or the app's privacy practices: support@n8guest.com.