Privacy policy

Last updated 14 November 2026.

ChatPager is a Mac app made by Soba Solutions Pty Ltd ("we"). It alerts you to new Google Chat messages in the Google accounts you connect to it. This policy explains what the app reads, where that information goes, and how to remove it.

In short: ChatPager fetches your messages from Google directly, on your Mac. We never receive your messages, your sign-ins or anything else from your Google account. If you buy a licence, we keep your email address and an anonymous ID for each Mac you use it on.

What ChatPager reads from Google

When you connect a Google account, you give ChatPager read-only access to:

• Your email address, so the app can tell your accounts apart.
• Your Google Chat spaces and direct messages: their names and when they were last active.
• New messages in those spaces: who sent them, what they say and when. ChatPager uses this to show you an alert and a list of recent messages.
• Which messages you've read, so it only alerts you to messages you haven't seen.

ChatPager can't send, edit or delete messages, and it can't see anything else in your Google account.

What ChatPager reads on your Mac

ChatPager reads Google Chrome's list of profiles on your Mac to find which profile each account is signed in to, whether that profile is open, and its colour. It uses this to stay quiet when Chrome is already alerting you, and to open messages in the right profile. This information doesn't leave your Mac.

Where your information goes

• Nowhere but your Mac. ChatPager gets your messages from Google's servers and keeps them on your Mac. It doesn't send us or anyone else your information from Google.
• No analytics or tracking. The app has no analytics, advertising or crash-reporting services built in.
• We don't sell, share or transfer your information, and we don't use it to train AI models or for advertising.

What ChatPager keeps on your Mac

• Your Google sign-ins, encrypted with a key held in your macOS Keychain.
• Your connected accounts and when each was last checked.
• Your settings, such as quiet hours.
• Your licence key, if you have one, and when your free trial started.

Message contents are held in memory only while the app is running, and aren't written to disk by ChatPager. Alerts you've received may stay in macOS Notification Centre until you clear them, as with any app.

The beta list

If you join the beta list on this website, we keep your email address so we can tell you when ChatPager is ready to download. We'll email you about that once, and won't use your address for anything else. Email us to be taken off the list.

Buying and activating a licence

• Payment. Stripe processes your payment and sends us your email address and the purchase details. We never see your card details. Stripe's handling is covered by Stripe's privacy policy.
• Your licence email. We send your key by email through Resend, an email delivery service, which receives your email address and the message.
• Activating. When you add your key, and about every 36 days after that, ChatPager sends chatpager.app your key and an anonymous ID for your Mac. The ID is a one-way hash of your Mac's hardware ID: it tells us how many Macs a licence is on, and nothing about the Mac itself.
• What we keep. Your email address, your key, the Stripe purchase reference, and the anonymous ID of each Mac with the dates it was activated and last checked. This is stored by Cloudflare, which hosts chatpager.app. We keep it for as long as your licence exists, so you can get your key again and move it between Macs.
• Removing it. Remove a Mac in ChatPager's settings to delete its ID. To delete your licence record entirely, email us; this also ends the licence.

Removing your information

• Remove an account in ChatPager. This deletes its sign-in from your Mac and tells Google to cancel ChatPager's access.
• Or cancel access from Google. Go to myaccount.google.com/connections and remove ChatPager.
• To remove everything, quit ChatPager, delete it from Applications, and delete the folder ~/Library/Application Support/chatpager.

Google API Services

ChatPager's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs to any other app will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

This website

This website has no cookies, analytics or tracking. It's hosted by Cloudflare, which processes visitors' IP addresses to deliver and protect the site.

Children

ChatPager isn't directed at children under 13.

Changes

If we change this policy, we'll update it on this page and change the date at the top.

Contact

Questions about privacy: [email protected].