Hedgerow
Reelforge

Reelforge and your privacy

This page sums up what Reelforge 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\Reelforge 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).

When Reelforge goes online

  • 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.

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.

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.