Sumpad and your privacy

This page sums up what Sumpad 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\Sumpad 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).

When Sumpad goes online

• 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".

Good to know

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

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.