Windsland
Privacy policy
Windsland works entirely on your PC. It doesn't collect, send, sell or share any personal data, it has no account, ads or analytics, and it never connects to the internet.
Who we are
Windsland is made by Michael Jimoh (Hack Angel), an independent developer. Questions about this policy: contact@hackangel.xyz.
What the app reads, and why
To show things in the island and the dock, Windsland reads the following on your PC. It's used on the spot, kept in memory only as long as it's on screen, and never leaves your computer.
- What's playing: the title, artist, album art and playback state that music and video apps report to Windows' media controls, so the island can show them and offer play, pause and skip.
- Notifications: the app name, title, text and image of new notifications, read (without changing anything) from Windows' own notification store on your PC, so the island can show them.
- Battery: charge level and whether the charger is connected, for the charging animation.
- Open apps and windows: which app is in front and which apps have windows open, so the island can follow your app rules, step aside during fullscreen games and videos, and so the dock can show your running apps.
- Downloads: names and sizes of files that are still downloading in your Downloads folder, to show their progress as a live activity.
- The screen right behind the island and dock: when liquid glass is on, the pixels next to them are sampled to tint and bend the glass. They're processed frame by frame in memory and never saved. The refraction effect is kept out of screenshots and screen recordings.
- Coding agents, only if you connect them: when you click Connect for Claude Code, Windsland adds a hook to Claude Code's settings file on your PC (and removes it when you disconnect); Codex works the same way if you add the hook to its settings yourself. The agent then reports progress to Windsland through a local channel that only your Windows account can open: the session, the project folder's name, what it's working on (for example which file it's editing or its to-do list) and when it needs you. Nothing is sent anywhere else.
What it stores on your PC
- Your settings: your choices in Settings, dock apps, app rules and timers, plus a list of which apps' notification pop-ups it turned off (so it can put exactly those back).
- A diagnostic log: app names, states and errors, to help fix problems. It never records what your notifications, songs or messages say. It stays on your PC unless you choose to send it to us.
The installer version keeps these in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Windsland; its uninstaller offers to delete them. The Microsoft Store version keeps them in its own app data, which Windows removes when you uninstall it.
Windows settings it changes, only when you ask
- Show notifications only in Windsland: turns off other apps' notification pop-ups using Windows' own per-app switch, so they appear only in the island. They're put back when you turn the option off, when Windsland closes, or when you uninstall it.
- Hide the Windows taskbar (dock): switches the taskbar to auto-hide while the dock is showing, and puts it back the same way.
- Start with Windows: adds Windsland to your startup apps. You can also turn it off in Windows Settings → Apps → Startup.
Internet and third parties
The app makes no network connections at all: no telemetry, no crash reporting of its own, no update checks and no remote content. Links in the app (such as this website) open in your web browser.
Microsoft Store: if you get Windsland from the Store, Microsoft handles purchase, installation and updates under the Microsoft Privacy Statement. Microsoft may show developers anonymous, aggregated statistics such as install counts, ratings and crash summaries. We don't receive your name, email or other details from it.
This website: downloads of the installer from hackangel.xyz are counted per day, version and country (as reported by Cloudflare). No IP addresses, cookies or browser details are stored.
Children
Windsland collects no personal information from anyone, including children.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new effective date. If Windsland ever needs to connect to the internet, that will be explained here before it happens.
Contact
Email contact@hackangel.xyz with any question about privacy or this policy.