Gesturely and your privacy

This page sums up what Gesturely does with your data. The Hedgerow privacy policy covers every app, the website and purchases in full.

What stays on your PC

• Settings and data live in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Hedgerow\Gesturely on your PC.
• Your gestures, per-app gestures, shortcuts, touchpad actions, exclusions and settings, including any text snippets and app, file or web addresses you set as actions.
• A trial start date in the registry under your user account (Direct edition).
• A Start with Windows entry in your user Run key, on by default (Direct edition; turn it off in Settings).

When Gesturely goes online

• License activation (Direct edition): when you enter a key, Gesturely sends the key, your PC’s name, the app’s name and an anonymous device ID to our license server. About once a week it checks the license again, sending the key and the activation’s ID.
• Update checks (Direct edition): only when you choose Check for updates. The request includes the app’s name and version, nothing else.
• Crash reports: off unless you turn them on. If Gesturely crashes, it saves a report on your PC; with reports turned on it also sends that report, with file paths removed, to crash.hedgerowapps.com.

Good to know

• Gesturely watches mouse button presses and pointer movement across Windows to recognize gestures. The path you draw is used only while you draw and is never stored or sent.
• It notes which app is in front, and which window is under a gesture, to apply per-app gestures and exclusions. The recent gestures list in the tray is kept in memory only.

There are no ads, and no analytics or usage tracking.

Microsoft Store edition

The Store edition doesn’t contact our license server or check for updates itself: Microsoft handles the purchase, the license and updates, under Microsoft’s privacy statement.