Snapback privacy policy

Last updated: October 8, 2026

Snapback is a tray app for Windows that puts your windows back where they were after sleep, unlock, a dock change or a monitor replug.

What Snapback collects

Nothing. Snapback does not collect, send or share any personal information.

• It makes no network connections, except the Microsoft Store's own license check.
• It has no account, no ads, no analytics and no tracking.

What Snapback saves on your PC

All of these files are in the app's own data folder in your Windows user profile. Like the rest of your profile, the folder is protected by your Windows account: other users of the PC without administrator rights cannot open it. Window titles are also encrypted (Windows data protection): only your Windows account on this PC can read them. You can open the folder from About Snapback > Open data folder and delete any file at any time. Uninstalling the app removes them.

• Settings: automatic restore on or off, timings, and whether the first-start window was shown.
• Window layouts (layouts.json), one set per monitor setup. For each window: its position, size, minimized/maximized state, program file name, app ID (for Store apps), window class and window title (encrypted), plus an ID of your monitor setup (monitor model codes and arrangement). The title is used only to tell windows of the same program apart.
  • For an open window, only its current title is kept.
  • A closed window is kept for up to 7 days, so it can go back to its spot after a restart. Then it is removed.
  • At most 200 windows are kept per monitor setup.
  • Save this layout keeps a separate copy for the monitor setup until you save again.
• A backup of the last good layouts file (layouts.json.bak). If the layouts file is ever damaged, Snapback renames it (layouts.bad-<date>.json) and uses the backup. These copies hold the same kind of data as the layouts file.
• A key file (titles.key) that unlocks the window titles. Windows data protection locks it to your Windows account, so a copy of the files cannot be read on another PC or by another account.
• A log (log.txt) of what the app did, for example "restore: 3 moved". It has program file names and monitor model codes, not window titles. It is kept under 1 MB.
• Start with Windows, only if you turn it on.

Diagnostics

If you click Diagnostics… in the tray menu and then Create zip, the app writes a zip file in its own data folder on your PC and opens File Explorer on it: system info, the log, your settings and your saved layouts. Window titles are replaced with "(hidden)" unless you tick "Include window titles" (then the zip has them as plain text). Nothing is sent: you decide whether to share the zip.

Children

Snapback does not collect data from anyone, including children.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted at this address with a new date.

Contact

Questions: [email protected]