The short version
There are two different things to talk about here, and they behave differently. The desktop app runs entirely on your own computer: no account, no message content, no files, no screen capture. This website is an ordinary marketing site, and like most of them it uses third-party analytics and advertising measurement tools that set cookies and process your IP address.
Using the app does not require using the website, and nothing links your app usage to your website visit.
If you buy Green Dotter Pro, there is a third thing: your purchase and your licence. It is described in its own section below.
The desktop app
Green Dotter simulates mouse clicks, at one spot or inside an area you define, and mouse movement. That is all it does. It does not read your messages, access your files, record your screen, or log keystrokes.
It sends anonymous, session-level product analytics to PostHog (EU region): app launches, when a session starts and ends, which mode you used, and basic technical facts like operating system version and app version. Events are attached to a random identifier generated on your machine — not to your name, email, IP-derived identity, or any account.
- No account or sign-in
- No message content
- No screen captures or screenshots
- No keystroke logging
- No advertising or tracking cookies in the app
If analytics cannot be reached, the app carries on working normally.
Green Dotter Pro: purchases and your licence
Green Dotter Pro is an optional paid subscription. The free app is unchanged by it. Pro still does not need an account with Green Dotter: your licence key is the only thing that ties a purchase to a computer.
Paying. You buy Pro on a checkout page run by our payment provider, who sells it to you as merchant of record (the seller on your receipt). They collect your name, email address, payment details and the address or country they need to work out tax, and they send your receipts and billing emails. Your card or bank details go to them and never touch Green Dotter or this website. They are responsible for the data they collect, under their own privacy policy, which is linked from checkout. I receive the order details I need to run your licence: your email address, which plan you bought and whether your subscription is active.
Your licence key and computers. When you activate Pro, the app sends your licence key and a friendly label for that computer, so you can tell your computers apart, to Green Dotter's licence service. That service runs on Cloudflare. Like any web host, Cloudflare sees the request, including your IP address, as part of delivering it. The key and label are used to check that your licence is valid and to enforce how many computers it covers, and for nothing else.
Purchase analytics. When a purchase or a refund happens, an anonymous event is sent to PostHog (EU region), the same service described above. It carries no licence key, no email address and no name.
Support. If you email support@green-dotter.com, your message lands in the ENineApps email inbox. I use what you send to help you, and nothing else.
This website
The website uses the following third-party services. Each one receives your IP address and browser user-agent as an unavoidable part of the request, and most set cookies or use local storage in your browser.
| Service | Purpose | What it receives |
|---|---|---|
| Google Analytics 4 Google Ireland Ltd | Audience and traffic measurement | Pages viewed, referrer, approximate location from IP, device and browser, a randomly generated visitor ID stored in a cookie |
| Contentsquare Content Square SAS | Understanding how pages are actually used | Interactions with the page — clicks, scrolling, mouse movement, page performance — plus the same device and browser details |
| Reddit Pixel Reddit, Inc. | Measuring whether Reddit advertising leads to downloads | Page views and download clicks, a Reddit click identifier if you arrived from a Reddit ad, and your IP address and user-agent |
| Microsoft Advertising UET Microsoft Ireland Operations Ltd | Measuring whether Microsoft/Bing advertising leads to downloads | Page views and download clicks, plus the same device and browser details |
Download clicks are also sent to Reddit server-to-server through Reddit's Conversions API. That transmission includes your IP address and user-agent, and the Reddit click identifier when one is present. It carries no name, email address or account details.
To be plain about it: an IP address and a cookie identifier count as personal data under UK and EU law, even though they do not tell us who you are. We do not attempt to identify you from them, we do not sell or share this data for its own sake, and we hold no separate copy of it ourselves — it lives inside each provider's platform, under that provider's retention settings.
Cookies and local storage
The site sets cookies for the analytics and advertising measurement described above. It also uses your browser's local storage for two small values: the language you last chose (gd_lang), and which variant of a page-headline test you were shown (gd_lede_variant), so the page stays consistent between visits. Neither leaves your browser.
There is no login, no user account, no newsletter and no comments on this site. If you buy Pro, checkout is a separate page run by our payment provider, described above.
Permissions
On Mac, Green Dotter needs macOS Accessibility permission so it can perform clicks. This is Apple's standard requirement for any app that automates mouse or keyboard input. You grant it consciously, you can see it in System Settings → Privacy & Security → Accessibility, and you can revoke it at any time.
Your control
In the app. You choose the click area, the timing, and the stop conditions. You can stop a session instantly with F8 or ⌘⇧.. Uninstalling the app removes it completely.
On the website. You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings, which stops the services above from recognising a returning visitor. Browser tracking protection, an ad blocker, or private browsing will all block some or all of these scripts, and the site works normally without them. You can also install Google's opt-out add-on for Google Analytics specifically.
Your rights. If you are in the UK or EU you have the right to ask what is held about you, to have it deleted, and to object to it being processed. Because we hold no account and no directly identifying information, the practical route is usually to ask the relevant provider, but get in touch and we will help where we can.
Under UK GDPR you can also ask for a copy of the personal data held about you and ask for it to be corrected or deleted. If you're unhappy with how it's been handled, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.
Questions
Green Dotter is made and run by one person, not a company. If you have a privacy question or want to exercise any of the rights above, get in touch via the contact page.
The person responsible for your data (the controller) is Peter Murtagh, an individual developer in the UK trading as ENineApps, which is not a registered company. For anything about privacy, Pro, a purchase or your licence, email support@green-dotter.com.
Last updated: 14 October 2026 (Green Dotter Pro purchases added)