DropDock is published by Andrei D. Ruiz, trading as DimeLabs.
DropDock collects nothing, sends nothing, and has no servers.
It has no account, no sign-in, no analytics, no telemetry, no crash reporting, no advertising, and no update check of its own. It makes no network connections of any kind. Nothing you do in DropDock is visible to us.
We publish this policy because the Microsoft Store requires one for every desktop application, not because there is data to describe. The rest of this page exists so you can check that claim rather than take it.
DropDock keeps one settings file on your own computer:
%APPDATA%\DropDock\state.jsonIt is a plain-text JSON file. You can open it in any text editor. It contains:
| What | Why it is there |
|---|---|
items — the full path of every file you have added to the shelf |
This is what the shelf is. Without it, DropDock would be empty at every launch |
window — the dock's position on screen and its height |
So it reopens where you left it |
sort — whether the list is sorted A–Z, Z–A, or in your own order |
So it reopens as you left it |
theme — light, dark, or follow-system |
So it reopens as you left it |
version — the format number of the file |
So a future version can read a file this one wrote |
The paths are the part worth stating plainly. A file path can be revealing — it may contain a client's name, a project name, or your own name inside your user folder. DropDock stores those paths, in readable text, on your machine. It never transmits them.
DropDock stores the path, never the file. It does not copy, move, alter, or open the files you add. Removing an entry from the shelf does not touch the file it referred to.
It is left in place, deliberately. Uninstalling DropDock does not delete state.json, so that reinstalling restores your shelf. A file utility that erases your list on the way out is a file utility that erased something.
If you want it gone, delete the folder %APPDATA%\DropDock yourself. Nothing else of DropDock's remains anywhere on your system.
If you inspect DropDock's files you will find Qt6Network.dll, and the executable imports from it. We would rather tell you what that is than have you find it and wonder.
It is used for exactly one thing: a local named pipe that lets a second launch of DropDock detect the first one and hand focus to it, instead of opening a second dock. That pipe never leaves your computer — it is not a network socket, it does not use the internet, and no data crosses a machine boundary. It is restricted to your own user account.
There is no other use of the network in DropDock, and no code in it that contacts any server.
Microsoft. DropDock is distributed through the Microsoft Store. Microsoft handles the download, the installation, and any updates, and Microsoft collects its own data about that — for example that an installation happened. This is governed by the Microsoft Privacy Statement, not by this policy, and we have no control over it.
We can see aggregate acquisition figures for DropDock in Microsoft's publisher dashboard — how many installations there have been, and in which countries. We cannot see who you are, and we cannot see anything you do inside the application.
Email. If you write to our support address, we will have your email and whatever you put in the message. We use it to answer you and for nothing else, and we do not add you to any list.
DropDock is a general-purpose utility, is not directed at children, and collects no information from anyone, including children.
If this policy ever changes, the version and date at the top change with it. If a change ever means DropDock starts collecting something, that will be stated at the top of this page in plain language rather than folded into a paragraph.