Waitlist privacy notice
Who we are
Orbtile ("we"), made in Europe. Contact: [email protected].
What we collect
- Your email address.
- Which waitlist you joined: Windows, or other keypads.
- The keypad devices and AI coding agents you optionally select, and the short "other device" text if you type one.
- The time you gave consent and the version of this notice (wl-2026-09-29s).
- For 30 days only, a one-way keyed hash of your IP address, used to block abuse. We never store the IP address itself.
We do not collect your name. We do not use tracking cookies, tracking pixels or click tracking.
Why, and on what legal basis
To (a) email you when Orbtile is available for the platform or device you chose, including a beta invitation, and (b) count anonymous interest per device and agent to decide what we build next. Legal basis: your consent (GDPR Art. 6(1)(a)). The IP hash and the anti-bot check rely on our legitimate interest in keeping the form free of spam (Art. 6(1)(f)).
How the list works
You enter your email and submit the form. That is your sign-up; we do not send a confirmation email. We store your entry so we can write to you when the product, platform, or device you asked for is ready. We write at most once per announcement, and every email has an unsubscribe link.
Bot protection
The form uses Cloudflare Turnstile, which processes technical signals from your browser to tell humans from bots. See Cloudflare's privacy policy.
Who processes it for us
- Cloudflare, Inc.: hosting, the database (stored in the EU), and anti-bot checks.
- Email delivery provider (when announcement emails are sent).
We never sell your data or share it with anyone else.
How long we keep it
- Waitlist entries: until the product is available plus 30 days, or at most 24 months from sign-up, whichever is sooner.
- IP hashes: 30 days. Rate-limit counters: 2 days.
- Unsubscribing deletes your entry immediately.
Your rights
You can withdraw consent at any time with the unsubscribe link in every email; this deletes your entry and does not affect earlier processing. You can also ask for access, correction, deletion, restriction or portability, or object, by writing to [email protected]. We answer within one month. You can complain to the Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados (CNPD, www.cnpd.pt) or to your local authority.
No automated decisions
No automated decisions or profiling are made about you.
The Orbtile app
The sections above cover the waitlist form. This section covers the Orbtile app for macOS, which runs locally on your computer.
- What it reads: the end of each Claude Code session's transcript file on your Mac (the last 256 KB) to show the assistant's latest words on the key. The transcript never leaves your Mac. When ZCode is installed, it also reads ZCode's local task database, read-only.
- How agent events arrive: over a private Unix-domain socket that only your user account can open. The app opens no network port.
- What it writes: its own settings, stored on your Mac. When you connect an agent, it installs a small plugin (Claude Code) or hook entries (Codex) that send session events to the app over that socket; your own settings and hooks are kept, and removing the integration takes them out again. During the beta it stores nothing in the macOS Keychain.
- What it sends: one network request only — a signed beta status check at orbtile.com/beta/status.json, at launch and every 6 hours. The request carries no identifiers, no cookies and no analytics.
- What it never does: it shows no macOS notifications, and it never sends your transcript or task data anywhere.