Privacy

Who is responsible

Maben Awake and this website are made by Max Benschop in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. For anything about your data, email maxbenschop1@gmail.com.

The app

What stays on your Mac

The app stores its settings (including the mode you chose per app), the active requests to keep the Mac awake, and its logs. They are in your macOS preferences, in ~/Library/Application Support/MabenAwake/ and in ~/Library/Logs/. None of this is sent to me or to anyone else, and I can't see it.

What the logs contain

The event log records when and why the Mac was kept awake: the names of the apps involved, the names of the requests, lid and power changes, and sleeps and wakes. The hook log records, for each Claude Code prompt and tool call, the time, a short session id and the name of the tool. It doesn't record your prompts, the commands that were run or their output. Both logs are trimmed as they grow and stay on your Mac.

What it does on your Mac

• Pauses and resumes other apps while the lid is closed, and changes the screen brightness. It only signals apps running in your own login session.
• Claude Code hooks. When you click Install in Settings, the app adds entries to ~/.claude/settings.json so Claude Code tells the app when it starts and stops working. It keeps a copy of the file as it was, next to it. The hook reads which tool is being used, to wake the app that tool needs.
• Browser tabs. When an AI has used a browser while the lid was closed, the app asks that browser for its list of tab ids so it can close the tabs the AI opened. It doesn't read page content or addresses.
• Administrator setup, once. The closed-lid setup adds a rule that lets your user turn closed-lid sleep on and off without a password, and installs a small service that restores the screen and wakes apps when you open the lid. Both can be removed; see Support.

Checking for updates

At start and every 6 hours the app asks GitHub for the latest release of Maben Awake, and downloads it from GitHub when there is a new one. GitHub sees that request like any other visit, including your IP address, under GitHub's privacy statement. Nothing about you or your Mac is sent with it except the app's version. Turn it off in Settings › General.

No tracking

The app contains no analytics, no crash reporting, no ads and no tracking of any kind.

This website

This website sets no cookies and uses no analytics, tracking or third-party embeds. The fonts are served from this site itself.

The site runs on a server I manage and is delivered through Cloudflare, which acts as its network provider. To deliver and protect the site, Cloudflare processes technical data about each request, such as your IP address and browser, under Cloudflare's privacy policy. My own web server doesn't keep access logs.

If you email me

If you email me, for support or with feedback, I use your email address and message only to reply. I don't share them and don't add you to any list. I delete them when you ask. Email is handled by Google (Gmail).

Your rights

Under the GDPR you can ask what personal data I hold about you, and ask me to correct or delete it, or to stop using it. Email maxbenschop1@gmail.com. The only personal data I could have is your email if you wrote to me; data in the app never reaches me. If you think your data is handled wrongly, you can complain to the Dutch Data Protection Authority.

The legal basis is my legitimate interest in answering messages and keeping this website running safely.

Changes

If the app or this website starts handling data differently, for example when the app gets an update check or is released through an app store, this page will be updated and the date at the top will change.