Privacy policy

Data folder: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Hedgerow\Linkweave

• 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.

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).

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.

Linkweave privacy summary

Data folder: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Hedgerow\Pathjump

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

On your PC:

• Your favorites, settings and excluded apps.
• Your recent folders, with the program name of the app that used each one last, and the last folder each app saved to.
• A trial start date in the registry under your user account.
• A Start with Windows entry under your user account, when that setting is on (Direct edition).

Good to know:

• To find Open and Save dialogs, Pathjump watches for new windows in other apps. It reads a dialog's current folder and the app's program name, and nothing else. It never adds code to other apps.
• It reads Windows' own list of recently used dialog folders (without changing it) and the folders open in File Explorer.
• For search, it builds a list of folder names in your own folders and favorites on local drives. The list is kept in memory, not saved, and network drives are never scanned.
• Crash reports, when turned on, have file and folder paths removed before they are sent.

Pathjump privacy summary

Data folder: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Hedgerow\Shrinkwell

• License activation (Direct edition): when you enter a key, Shrinkwell 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): Shrinkwell downloads a small file listing the latest version about 30 seconds after each start. The request includes the app’s name and version, nothing else.
• Crash reports: off unless you turn them on. If Shrinkwell 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.

On your PC:

• Your settings and watched folders.
• Recent activity: the names, locations and sizes of the last 50 optimized files, plus recent skips and errors.
• Your originals, in a backup folder or next to each file, depending on your choice. Backups are deleted after 30 days by default.
• Copies of recently optimized clipboard images, so Paste original and Copy again work.
• Daily log files, kept for 7 days, and crash reports if the app crashes.
• A trial record in the registry under your user account.
• A Start with Windows entry, a "Send to" shortcut and a notification registration under your user account (Direct edition).

Good to know:

• Shrinkwell reads images you copy so it can offer a smaller version. Content that apps mark as private or as excluded from clipboard history, such as from password managers, is ignored. Clipboard images and files are never uploaded.
• Earlier versions kept their data in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Shrinkwell. It moves to the Hedgerow folder the first time this version starts.

Shrinkwell privacy summary

Data folder: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Hedgerow\Sortwise

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

On your PC:

• Your watched folders, rules and settings.
• An activity log of what each rule did (file names and where they went), kept for 30 days.
• A list of the files Sortwise has seen in each watched folder, so it knows what is new.
• A trial start date in the registry under your user account.
• A Start with Windows entry under your user account, when that setting is on (Direct edition).

Good to know:

• To match rules, Sortwise reads file names, dates and sizes, the "downloaded from" address Windows stores with downloaded files, and, for the Content condition, the text inside PDF, text and Word files. All of this stays on the PC.
• Crash reports, when turned on, have file and folder paths removed before they are sent.

Sortwise privacy summary

Data folder: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Hedgerow\Stashbay

• License activation (Direct edition): when you enter a key, Stashbay 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): Stashbay downloads a small file listing the latest version at most once a day, a minute after it starts. The request includes the app’s name and version, nothing else.
• Crash reports: kept on your PC only. Stashbay never uploads them.

On your PC:

• Your settings.
• Your shelves and the locations of the items on them, so they come back after a restart.
• Images, links and text you drag in from browsers and apps, saved as files and deleted when you clear the shelf or after 7 days (you can change this).
• A small log file and, if Stashbay crashes, a short crash report with the app version and where the error happened. Neither includes file contents.
• A trial start date in the registry under your user account.
• A Start with Windows entry and a notification name and icon under your user account (Direct edition).

Good to know:

• To spot a shake, Stashbay watches mouse movement while you drag. It checks which app the drag came from only to honor your list of excluded apps. Nothing is recorded.
• Earlier versions kept their data in %APPDATA%\Stashbay and %LOCALAPPDATA%\Stashbay. It moves to the Hedgerow folder the first time this version starts.

Stashbay privacy summary

Data folder: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Hedgerow\Copyloft

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

On your PC:

• Your clipboard history (text, links, colors, file and folder paths, and images with thumbnails) and pinboards, in a database on this PC. Deleting an item removes it from the file, not just from view.
• For each item, the name of the app it was copied from and when.
• Your settings and list of excluded apps.
• 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).

Good to know:

• Copyloft skips anything an app marks as private or not for clipboard history, and anything copied from password managers or apps you exclude.
• Copyloft never visits links you copy. A link's page title appears only when your browser put it on the clipboard.
• Files and folders are kept as references to where they are, not as copies.
• If you turn on "Use Win+V for Copyloft", it watches the keyboard for that one key combination only, and only while the option is on.

Copyloft privacy summary

Data folder: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Hedgerow\Jotsend

• 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.

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).

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.

Jotsend privacy summary

Data folder: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Hedgerow\Scratchbay

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

On your PC:

• Your five pads, as plain text files plus a journal of recent edits.
• A copy of the last text you cleared from each pad, so Undo clear works after a restart.
• Daily backups of your pads from the last 7 days, while Daily backups is on (it is by default).
• Your settings, including pad names, colors and where floating pads sit.
• 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).

Good to know:

• If you move your pads to another folder in Settings › Data, they are kept there instead. Backups stay next to Scratchbay's settings.

Scratchbay privacy summary

Data folder: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Hedgerow\Tapline

• License activation (Direct edition): when you enter a key, Tapline 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 Tapline 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.
• When you click Search, Translate or Define, your web browser opens the site you chose in Settings › Actions with the selected text in the address. Tapline itself makes no connection for this.
• Custom actions you create pass the selected text to the web address or program you set, only when you click them.

On your PC:

• Your settings, custom actions and list of excluded apps.
• A count of how often you use each action, for the most-used list in the tray flyout.
• 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).

Good to know:

• Tapline reads the selected text through Windows accessibility to pick which actions to show. It does not keep the text, and never reads password fields.
• In apps that don't share their selection with Windows, Tapline copies it for a moment and then restores your clipboard. Windows clipboard history (Win+V) may keep that copy. You can turn this off in Settings › General.

Tapline privacy summary

Data folder: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Hedgerow\Draftroom

• License activation (Direct edition): when you enter a key, Draftroom 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): Draftroom downloads a small file listing the latest version about 45 seconds after it starts. The request includes the app’s name and version, nothing else.
• Crash reports: off unless you turn them on. If Draftroom 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.

On your PC:

• Your library, in Documents\Draftroom or the folder you choose in Settings › Library: your writing as plain Markdown files, plus notes, attachments, keywords, goals and snapshots of earlier versions.
• A record of how many words you wrote each day, for goals and streaks.
• A daily backup of your library in the data folder, keeping the last 30 (you can turn this off).
• Up to 10 recent crash reports, kept on the PC whether or not sending is turned on.
• A trial start date in the registry under your user account (Direct edition).
• The installer registers an app path under your user account so other apps can find Draftroom.
• A Start with Windows entry under your user account, only if you turn it on in Settings › General (Direct edition).

Good to know:

• Your writing is never uploaded. “Open in Pressleaf” saves a Word document and opens it in Pressleaf on the same PC.
• Crash reports, if turned on, contain the app and Windows versions, the time and the error details, with file names and paths removed. They never include your writing.

Draftroom privacy summary

Data folder: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Hedgerow\Notegrove

• License activation (Direct edition): when you enter a key, Notegrove 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): Notegrove downloads a small file listing the latest version about 30 seconds after it starts. The request includes the app’s name and version, nothing else.
• Crash reports: off unless you turn them on. If Notegrove 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.

On your PC:

• Your notes, tags and links, in a database in the library folder, with pasted pictures and attached files copied next to it. The library is in the data folder unless you move it in Settings › Data.
• A daily backup of your notes in the data folder (the newest 30 are kept), and deleted notes in Trash for 30 days.
• After the trial, the number of new notes made today.
• A trial start date in the registry under your user account (Direct edition).
• A Start with Windows entry in your user Run key, only while Start with Windows is on in Settings › General (Direct edition; off by default).

Good to know:

• Rich text pasted from the web keeps remote pictures as links. Notegrove doesn't download them.
• Spell check uses the spell checker built into Windows, on the PC.

Notegrove privacy summary

Data folder: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Hedgerow\Pressleaf

• License activation (Direct edition): when you enter a key, Pressleaf 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): Pressleaf downloads a small file listing the latest version about 45 seconds after it starts. The request includes the app’s name and version, nothing else.
• Crash reports: off unless you turn them on. If Pressleaf 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.

On your PC:

• Your books, as .pressleaf project files in Documents\Pressleaf or wherever you save them, including any pictures.
• Your settings and the list of recent books.
• Preview pages and the ebook preview’s browser cache, in the data folder.
• Up to 10 recent crash reports, kept on the PC whether or not sending is turned on.
• A trial start date in the registry under your user account (Direct edition).
• The installer registers .pressleaf files to open in Pressleaf, and an app path so other apps can find it, under your user account.
• A Start with Windows entry under your user account, only if you turn it on in Settings › General (Direct edition).

Good to know:

• The ebook preview uses Microsoft Edge WebView2 to show pages built on the PC. It loads only those local files, with scripts turned off and links blocked.
• Crash reports, if turned on, contain the app and Windows versions, the time and the error details, with file names and paths removed. They never include your manuscript.

Pressleaf privacy summary

Data folder: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Hedgerow\Sumpad

• License activation (Direct edition): when you enter a key, Sumpad 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 Sumpad 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.
• Exchange rates: Sumpad downloads the European Central Bank's daily reference rates from www.ecb.europa.eu shortly after it starts and about twice a day while it runs. The request contains none of your data. It is on by default; turn off "Update rates automatically" in Settings › Currency to update only when you click "Update now".

On your PC:

• Your sheets, as plain text files with a change journal so no typing is lost.
• The quick-calc scratch sheet.
• The last exchange rates downloaded, with their date.
• Your settings.
• 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).

Good to know:

• Deleting a sheet moves a plain-text copy of it to the Recycle Bin, so you can restore it from there.

Sumpad privacy summary

Data folder: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Hedgerow\Hourtrail

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

On your PC:

• An activity database: for each stretch of time, the app in front (its file name and friendly name), its window title, and for supported browsers the site's domain, with start and end times.
• Your projects, rules, categories, manual entries and time you assigned by hand.
• The file locations of apps you have used, so the timeline can show their icons.
• The last 10 crash reports, kept locally whether or not you send them.
• A trial start date in the registry under your user account.
• A Start with Windows entry in your user Run key (Direct edition; on by default, turn it off in Settings › General).

Good to know:

• Hourtrail reads the title of the window in front and, in supported browsers, the address bar through Windows accessibility, to record time. Only the site's domain is kept, never the full address. Activity stays on the PC and is never uploaded.
• Window titles and sites are recorded by default; either can be turned off in Settings › Tracking. Apps and sites on the "never track" lists record nothing at all.
• Private and incognito browser windows are tracked like any other window. Turn on Hourtrail's private mode to keep their titles and sites out.
• Activity is kept until you delete it, unless you choose to keep only 1 year or 90 days. Deleted titles are overwritten in the database.
• Never records keystrokes, screenshots or the contents of documents, pages or messages.

Hourtrail privacy summary

Data folder: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Hedgerow\Taskwell

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

On your PC:

• Your tasks, with their notes, checklists, tags, dates, reminders, projects and areas, in a database on your PC.
• A backup of your tasks once a day (the newest 30 are kept), in the data folder or a folder you choose.
• Deleted tasks in the Trash for 30 days.
• The last 10 crash reports, kept locally whether or not you send them.
• A trial start date in the registry under your user account.
• A Start with Windows entry in your user Run key (Direct edition; on by default, turn it off in Settings › General).

Good to know:

• There is no account and no sync. Tasks never leave the PC unless you export them or choose a backup folder that another program copies elsewhere.

Taskwell privacy summary

Data folder: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Hedgerow\Hearloop

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

On your PC:

• Your sessions, settings and the list of recordings Hearloop has made.
• Your recordings, saved to Music\Hearloop or the folder you choose, with markers in a small text file beside each one.
• A small note for each recording in progress, so an interrupted recording can be recovered at the next start.
• Up to 10 recent crash reports, kept on the PC whether or not sending is turned on.
• A trial start date in the registry under your user account (Direct edition).
• A Start with Windows entry under your user account, on by default and turned off in Settings › General (Direct edition).

Good to know:

• Hearloop records audio only from the apps, devices and microphones you add to a session, and only while a recording is running or scheduled. Audio is never uploaded.
• To show which apps are playing sound, Hearloop lists running apps and their audio sessions on the PC. Nothing about them is sent anywhere.
• Crash reports, if turned on, contain the app and Windows versions, the time and the error details, with file names and paths removed. They never include audio.

Hearloop privacy summary

Data folder: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Hedgerow\Hushscribe

• License activation (Direct edition): when you enter a key, Hushscribe 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 Hushscribe 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.
• Speech models download from Hugging Face (huggingface.co) when you choose one during setup or in Settings › Models, or when you add a file and the chosen model isn’t installed yet. Only the model file is requested; no audio, text or personal details are sent.

On your PC:

• Your transcripts (text, timestamps and titles) in the library folder, which you can move in Settings › General.
• The speech models you download.
• Temporary decoded audio while a file is being transcribed, removed when the job finishes.
• Up to 10 recent crash reports, kept on the PC whether or not sending is turned on.
• A trial start date in the registry under your user account (Direct edition).
• A Start-with-Windows entry under your user account, only while unfinished jobs are waiting, so they can resume (Direct edition). It is removed when the queue is empty.

Good to know:

• Audio is decoded and transcribed on the PC, in a separate Hushscribe process. Recordings and transcripts are never uploaded.
• The “Try the sample” recording is made on the PC with Windows’ built-in voice.
• Crash reports, if turned on, contain the app and Windows versions, the time and the error details, with file names and paths removed. They never include audio or transcript text.

Hushscribe privacy summary

Data folder: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Hedgerow\Reelforge

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

On your PC:

• Your recordings, in Videos\Reelforge or the folder you choose: the screen video, system and microphone audio, your edits and a thumbnail.
• For each recording, the cursor’s path, its shapes, your clicks, and where typing happened (never which keys), used for zooms and the drawn cursor.
• Exported videos and GIFs, in Videos\Reelforge\Exports by default.
• Up to 10 recent crash reports, kept on the PC whether or not sending is turned on.
• A trial start date in the registry under your user account (Direct edition).
• A Start with Windows entry under your user account, on by default and turned off in Settings › General (Direct edition).

Good to know:

• Reelforge reads the cursor position, mouse buttons and the typing position only while a recording is running. It installs no keyboard or mouse hooks and never records which keys you press.
• Recordings are never uploaded. Microphone recording is off unless you turn it on.
• Crash reports, if turned on, contain the app and Windows versions, the time and the error details, with file names and paths removed. They never include recordings.

Reelforge privacy summary

Data folder: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Hedgerow\Flipdeck

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

On your PC:

• Your settings, tile layout, shortcuts and chosen audio devices.
• While presentation mode is on, a note of the settings it changed, so they can be put back even after a crash.
• The last 10 crash reports, kept locally whether or not you send them.
• A trial start date in the registry under your user account.
• A Start with Windows entry in your user Run key (Direct edition; on by default, turn it off in Settings › General).

Good to know:

• Tiles change Windows' own settings for your user account, such as the light or dark theme, Night light and taskbar auto-hide, only when you click them or press their shortcut.

Flipdeck privacy summary

Data folder: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Hedgerow\Pulsetray

• License activation (Direct edition): when you enter a key, Pulsetray 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): Pulsetray downloads a small file listing the latest version 2 minutes after it starts and then once a day. The request includes the app’s name and version, nothing else.
• Crash reports: off unless you turn them on. If Pulsetray 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.
• If you turn on Settings › General › Allow public IP lookup (off by default) and then choose Public in the network card, Pulsetray makes one request to api.ipify.org to show your public IP address. Nothing else is sent.

On your PC:

• Your settings, meter choices and alert thresholds.
• Today's network totals and any alert snoozes.
• The last 10 crash reports, kept locally whether or not you send them.
• A trial start date in the registry under your user account.
• A Start with Windows entry in your user Run key (Direct edition; on by default, turn it off in Settings › General).

Good to know:

• Reads system counters and the list of running processes to show meters and top apps. The graph history is kept in memory for an hour and is never written to disk or sent anywhere.

Pulsetray privacy summary

Data folder: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Hedgerow\Staylit

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

On your PC:

• Your settings and trigger list.
• A trial start date in the registry under your user account (Direct edition).

Staylit privacy summary

Data folder: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Hedgerow\Traytidy

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

On your PC:

• Your settings and the place you chose for each app's tray icon.
• The current tooltip text of tray icons Traytidy has read from the screen, so the drawer can show up-to-date names.
• A note of temporary tray changes (Clean mode, icons shown for a while) and the values to put back, so they can be undone after a crash.
• The last 10 crash reports, kept locally whether or not you send them.
• Windows' own per-icon "show on taskbar" setting, which Traytidy changes when you move an icon and puts back when Clean mode ends.
• A trial start date in the registry under your user account.
• A Start with Windows entry in your user Run key (Direct edition; on by default, turn it off in Settings › General).

Good to know:

• To find and click tray icons, Traytidy reads the list of icons Windows remembers, the running programs that own them, and the tray buttons Windows shows on screen. App names, icons and tooltips never leave the PC.

Traytidy privacy summary

Data folder: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Hedgerow\Gesturely

• 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.

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).

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.

Gesturely privacy summary

Data folder: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Hedgerow\Keyhop

• 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.

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).

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.

Keyhop privacy summary

Data folder: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Hedgerow\Linkfork

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

On your PC:

• Your rules, browser choices and settings. The links you click are never logged or stored.
• A list of the browsers and profiles found on the PC, including profile names, so the picker opens quickly.
• A trial start date in the registry under your user account (Direct edition).
• A browser registration for web links (http and https) under your user account, written by the installer and by Make default, and removed by Remove registration or uninstalling (Direct edition).
• A Start with Windows entry in your user Run key, on by default (Direct edition; turn it off in Settings › General).

Good to know:

• To match rules, Linkfork works out which app a link was clicked in, from the program that opened the link or the app in front. This stays on the PC.
• Linkfork reads each browser's own profile list, read-only, to show profiles in the picker. For a Chrome-style profile with a generic name, it may show the name of the account signed in to that profile.
• Link cleanup happens on the PC. Linkfork never looks links up online.
• Linkfork checks the Windows default-browser setting while it runs, so it can tell you if Windows changes it.

Linkfork privacy summary