Privacy Policy

Effective date: 2026-07-16
Applies to: nCompHunt 1.0.x

nCompHunt is a native macOS app that finds and indexes competitions. This policy explains what the app does and does not do with your data, as the app ships today. It is not a promise about future versions: if a later release changes what the app does, this policy is updated first and gets a new effective date. See "Changes to this policy" at the end.

What the current version collects

• nCompHunt does not collect, store, or transmit any personal data.
• It includes no analytics, no telemetry, no crash reporting, and no usage tracking.
• It has no accounts and no sign-in.
• It sends nothing to a developer-run server, because this version has no back end. Network requests go only to the public sources listed below.

Network requests

nCompHunt makes network requests for one purpose only: to fetch public competition listings from the sources you have enabled. Each source has an on/off switch in Settings, and the app contacts only the sources that are turned on.

The sources it can contact are:

• CTFtime
• Devpost
• Codeforces
• MLContests
• ybox.vn
• Contest Watchers
• clist.by (only if you provide an API key)
• Brave Search and Google Programmable Search (only if you provide API keys)

These requests retrieve contest information. They are not used to send any personal data about you.

API keys you enter

Some optional sources (clist.by, Brave Search, Google Programmable Search) require a free API key that you obtain yourself.

• Keys you enter are stored only in the local macOS Keychain on your Mac.
• A key is sent only to the service it belongs to, as part of fetching listings from that service.
• Keys are never sent to the developer or to any third party.

On-device data

• The competition index that nCompHunt builds is stored locally on your Mac.
• Calendar integration uses Apple's EventKit. When you add a contest to your calendar or turn on calendar sync, that data stays on your device and in your own Apple Calendar. The app requests calendar access only when you initiate one of these actions.
• Notifications, when enabled, are delivered locally by macOS and are used only to alert you to newly found contests.

Links to third-party sites

nCompHunt links out to competition pages hosted by third parties. Opening a link takes you to that site in your browser, where that site's own privacy policy applies. nCompHunt has no control over those sites.

Children

nCompHunt does not collect any data from anyone, including children.

Changes to this policy

This policy describes the version of nCompHunt named at the top. If a future release changes what the app does with data - for example by adding a back-end service, an account, or analytics - this policy is updated and republished at this same location, with a new effective date and a new version range, before that release ships. Nothing here should be read as a commitment that the app will never gain those features.

Contact

Questions about this policy can be raised as a GitHub issue: https://github.com/nhannht/ncomphunt/issues