Does Scene collect any data about you?
No. Scene by Zaweba has no accounts and no telemetry. Its only network use is the weather and the web addresses you type into feeds.
Nothing about you is collected by Scene by Zaweba, which has no accounts and no telemetry. It doesn't send anything about you or your PC anywhere. The only network traffic it makes is for the weather widget and for data feeds you set up, and those contact only Open-Meteo and the addresses you typed.
A desktop app sees a lot: what you play, what you open, how busy your machine is. It's reasonable to ask where that goes. With Scene, it stays on your computer.
What Scene keeps, and where
Your scenes live in %APPDATA%\Zaweba\Scene\scenes, and Scene > Open my scenes folder opens it. Notes widget text is saved in notes.json in Scene's data folder. Launcher bar items, settings and the scenes you've made are kept on your PC. While a scene is on, a small session.json records what Scene changed, purely so it can put things back after a crash.
None of it is uploaded. Because it's all ordinary files in your own folders, you can back them up, copy them to another PC or delete them whenever you like. Removing a scene you made is just a matter of selecting it and choosing Delete, and its files go with it.
The weather
The weather widget uses Open-Meteo, which needs no key and no IP location. You type a place name in Settings and choose it from a list, so the only thing Scene asks for is the forecast for the place you picked. It fetches only while a weather widget is on show, every 30 minutes.
Data feeds
Feeds are yours. A feed widget polls an address you typed and sends only that address and any headers you added. No cookies go with it. It runs only while a scene with a feed widget is on, with a 20 second timeout, a 1 MB cap on replies and up to three redirects.
When you export a scene to share, headers and key-like parts of feed addresses are stripped, so your API keys don't leave your PC inside a .zscene.
Wallpapers are kept from the internet
A wallpaper page, including one in a scene someone sent you, can't reach the internet. Everything outside the scene's own folder is blocked. So a shared scene can't quietly report back to anyone. Import is guarded too: no programs, nothing with .. or a drive letter in its paths, and a size limit.
What the widgets read on your PC
System readings come from Windows' own counters, or from Pulse by Zaweba if it's running, and they're shown on your desktop and nowhere else. The now playing widget reads Windows' media session to show the current track, again only on your screen. Scene needs no administrator rights for any of it.
Feedback is your choice
The tray icon's menu has Send feedback. That's there for you to use if you want to tell Zaweba something, and nothing is sent unless you choose to.
If you'd like to be certain, run Scene with a scene that has no weather and no feeds. It then has no reason to go online at all, and it doesn't.
