Hangabout— privacy

Privacy policy

Hangabout collects nothing. There is no account, no sign-up, no telemetry, no analytics, no crash reporting and no advertising. Nothing you do in the app is sent anywhere, and no one — including ORB Apps — receives any data about you from it.

Last updated 21 September 2026 · published by ORB Apps

• The Claude Code access token

  ~/.claude/.credentials.json

  To ask Anthropic for your current rate-limit windows.

• Claude Code’s session transcripts

  ~/.claude/projects/**/*.jsonl

  To count today’s and this week’s tokens, turns and sessions.

Only the usage figures in those transcripts are read — token counts, turn counts, timestamps and model names. The text of your conversations is never parsed, stored, displayed or transmitted, and Hangabout never writes to ~/.claude.

GET https://api.anthropic.com/api/oauth/usage

The access token goes in that request’s Authorization header, exactly as the Claude Code CLI itself sends it. Nothing else is sent — no identifiers, no file contents, no statistics of our own. The reply is your rate-limit windows, and it is drawn on screen. The token is held in memory for the length of the request: never logged, never written to disk, never copied into the app’s own files, and never sent anywhere but that one endpoint. With no Claude Code sign-in, or a lapsed one, no request is made at all and the HUD says so.

That request goes to Anthropic, so Anthropic’s own privacy policy covers what they do with it. Hangabout is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Anthropic.

mascot_config.json

your region, size, colour and preferences

mascot_state.json

the percentages he last told you about

mascot_usage_cache.json

the last windows he was given

mascot_error.log

only if something crashes

They live in the app’s own folder under %LOCALAPPDATA%, and Windows deletes them when you uninstall. You can also clear them yourself at any time with hangabout --reset. None of them contains anything from the credential file, and none of them contains any conversation content.

Hangabout is a developer tool. It is not directed at children and collects no personal information from anyone, of any age. If this policy ever changes, the new version is published at this address and the date at the top moves with it.