Hedgerow
Keyhop

Keyhop and your privacy

This page sums up what Keyhop 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\Keyhop on your PC.
  • Your settings, hotkeys, excluded apps and per-app minimum sizes.
  • Which one-time notices have been shown, including the program names of apps where no clickable elements were found.
  • After the trial, the number of clicks used today.
  • 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 › General).

When Keyhop goes online

  • License activation (Direct edition): when you enter a key, Keyhop 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 Keyhop 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

  • While hint or search mode is open, Keyhop reads the names, positions and types of clickable elements in the window in front (and the taskbar, if you turn that on) through Windows UI Automation. This stays in memory on the PC and is never saved or sent.
  • Keyhop watches the keyboard only while hint, search or scroll mode is open, to read the label you type. Keystrokes are not stored.
  • In Chromium-based browsers and apps, Keyhop asks the window to turn on its accessibility support, the way a screen reader does, when the window comes to the front.

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.