DM Adieu Effects Privacy Policy
Last updated: October 13, 2026
DM Adieu Effects is published by Dependent Media. It is a motion graphics and compositing app for the Mac. This policy explains what the app stores, what leaves your Mac, and what we can see.
The short version
DM Adieu Effects collects nothing. There is no account, no sign-in and no server. The App Store version has no permission to use the network and makes no network connections: the open-source compositor it is based on can download optional machine-learning models for Rotoscope Brush and face tracking, and that download is removed from this version. We do not use advertising or analytics SDKs, and we do not track you across other apps or websites.
1. What is stored on your Mac
Your projects live wherever you save them, and your renders go to your Movies folder unless you choose another place. The app keeps auto-saves of open projects (so an unexpected quit does not lose your work), its settings, keyboard shortcut presets, caches of rendered frames, the list of recent projects, and its own logs. All of this stays in the app’s sandboxed container on your Mac, or in a folder you chose. None of it is uploaded. Deleting the app removes its container.
2. What the app can reach
The app runs in the macOS App Sandbox. It can read and write any file or folder you choose yourself in an Open or Save panel or the folder picker, by drag and drop, or from the Finder, and it remembers those choices so your projects find their footage after a restart. It can also read and write your Movies folder, where renders go by default. It reads the fonts installed on your Mac so text layers can use them. It does not read your Photos library or other folders, and it never asks for the camera or microphone.
3. Scripts and expressions
Expressions and scripts run inside the app, only from projects and files you open, and they can reach only the files you allow. They cannot use the network. This version does not load third-party plug-ins.
4. Links
The Help menu and the Home screen open pages on dependentmedia.com and the EffectCraft project’s pages in your web browser. Nothing is sent when you open them beyond what your browser sends to any website.
5. Children
The app collects no personal information from anyone, including children.
6. Changes
If this policy changes, the new version appears at this address with a new date.
7. Contact
Dependent Media, Sacramento, California. [email protected]