Stashbay and your privacy

This page sums up what Stashbay 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\Stashbay 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).

When Stashbay goes online

• 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.

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.

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.