Hedgerow
Linkweave

Linkweave and your privacy

This page sums up what Linkweave 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\Linkweave on your PC.
  • Your hooks and the items they connect: titles, file paths and web addresses.
  • A history of items you opened the popup on, so search can find them. Turn this off in Settings › General, or clear it in Settings › Data.
  • A trial start date in the registry under your user account.
  • A Start with Windows entry and a handler for linkweave: links under your user account (Direct edition).

When Linkweave goes online

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

  • Linkweave only looks at the app in front when you press the hotkey or click the tray icon. Depending on the app, it reads the File Explorer selection, the browser's address bar and window title, the open Office document, the window title, the command line the app was started with, Windows' Recent items, or Notepad's open tabs. All of this stays on the PC.
  • When you copy a link to a file or hook it, Linkweave asks Windows to give the file a permanent ID, the same way Windows shortcuts do, so the link can follow it. The file's contents and modified date don't change.
  • Crash reports, when turned on, have file paths and web addresses removed before they are sent.

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.