Hedgerow
Jotsend

Jotsend and your privacy

This page sums up what Jotsend 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\Jotsend on your PC.
  • Your drafts, as one small file each plus a journal of recent edits, in a library folder you can move in Settings › Storage. Deleted drafts stay in Trash for 30 days unless you change it.
  • Your settings and your actions.
  • Short-lived copies of a draft when you use Open in app or Create calendar event. They are deleted after a day.
  • Files your actions save, append to or create stay wherever you pointed them.
  • A trial start date in the registry under your user account (Direct edition).
  • A Start with Windows entry under your user account, if that option is on (Direct edition).

When Jotsend goes online

  • License activation (Direct edition): when you enter a key, Jotsend 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): Jotsend downloads a small file listing the latest version shortly after it starts and then every 6 hours. The request includes the app’s name and version, nothing else.
  • Crash reports: off unless you turn them on. If Jotsend 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.
  • Email opens your default mail app with a new message: the draft's first line as the subject and the rest as the body. Jotsend doesn't send the email; you do, from your mail app.
  • Search the web opens your browser at the search address set in Settings (Bing unless you change it), with up to the first 400 characters of the draft in the address.
  • Share opens the Windows share panel with the draft's title and text. Only the app you pick there receives it.
  • Custom actions with an "Open a web address" step open your browser at the address you set, with draft text wherever you placed a token.

Good to know

  • Actions run only when you pick one: from the action bar, the actions panel, the Ctrl+K list, its Ctrl+1 to Ctrl+9 shortcut, or Ctrl+Enter for your default action. Nothing is sent in the background.
  • If an email is too long for a mail link, the body is shortened and the full text is put on your clipboard so you can paste it in.

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.