SoftOrbits Privacy Policy

We highly value your privacy and make this policy easily available throughout our site to assist you in understanding the handling of information in the course of using this site.

This policy covers both this website and the SoftOrbits desktop applications, including the versions distributed through the Microsoft Store. It is published by SoftOrbits, the developer of these applications.

Information Our Applications Collect

Our applications process your files (photos, videos, audio, documents, e-mail messages, contacts and other data you open in them) locally on your computer. We do not upload, read or store the contents of your files, except in the specific cases listed below that you start yourself.

• License activation. When you register a paid license, the application sends your license key, the e-mail address you entered, the application version and a hardware identifier calculated from your computer's hardware to our activation server. This is used only to validate the license and to limit the number of computers it is activated on.
• Trial and account registration. If you request a trial key, an AI credits account or a newsletter, we store the e-mail address you provide.
• Error reports. If you choose to send an error report from the Help menu or after a crash, the application uploads the diagnostic log, crash dump files (only if you tick that option), your optional comment and e-mail address, and the hardware identifier. A crash dump is a snapshot of the application memory and may contain fragments of the data that was open at that moment. Nothing is sent without your confirmation.
• Cloud AI features. Some applications offer optional online AI effects. Only when you start such an effect, the selected image is sent to our server, and from there to our AI processing provider, to produce the result that is returned to you. Uploaded images are used only to produce that result and are not used for any other purpose. All other processing, including speech recognition in our transcription applications, runs offline on your computer.
• Updates and offers. The application may contact our website to check for a newer version and to show current offers. These requests include the product name, version, language and trial status, but no personal data.

Purchases made through the Microsoft Store are processed by Microsoft. Purchases on our website are processed by our payment partners (merchants of record), who receive the billing information you give them under their own privacy policies. We do not receive or store your full payment card details.

We do not sell your personal information and we do not share it with third parties for their own marketing. Data is shared only with service providers that host our servers, process cloud AI effects and process payments on our behalf, or when required by law.

How Long We Keep Your Data

License and activation records are kept for as long as your license is valid, so that you can restore it on a new computer. Error reports are kept only as long as needed to investigate the problem. Images sent to cloud AI features are kept only as long as needed to produce and deliver the result. Any of this data is deleted on your request.

Your Rights and Choices

You can ask us at any time to give you a copy of the personal data we hold about you, to correct it, or to delete it (including your e-mail address, license activation records and error reports). You can unsubscribe from our e-mails using the link in every message. You can use all offline features of the applications without sending any data, and you can decline sending error reports. To make a request, contact us at the address below; we answer within 30 days.

Children

Our applications and website are not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them.

Contact Us About Privacy

For any privacy question or request, write to [email protected] with the subject "Privacy". Our postal address is listed on the About us page.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy when our applications or services change. The date of the last update is shown on this page.

Log Files

This website utilizes industry standard analytics packages which gathers limited information on visitors to our website automatically, and stores this anonymous information in server log files. This information may include IP addresses, browser type, basic IP information, referring pages, operating system used and date/time stamps. This information does not identify individual users; it is used only for site administration, as well as for analysis of website usage and trends.

When you open a checkout page we record the IP address of that request, and after the order is paid we read our own web-server logs for that address to reconstruct which page you arrived on and which pages you viewed. This is used only to attribute the order to a marketing source and to improve our site. The IP address and the list of viewed pages are deleted after 30 days and are never shared with third parties; only an aggregated source of the order is kept with the order record.

Links to Other Websites

This website may contain links to other sites that are not controlled in any way by us. Please be aware of this when you click on any such links; we are not responsible for the privacy practices and/or policies of any website other than our own. Consequently, we strongly suggest that you review the privacy policy of every website you visit, whether or not they are linked to by our own site.

A Note About Website Cookies for the purpose of Remarketing

You should be aware that www.softorbits.com uses Google AdWords, Google Analytics, and the Google Display Network together to serve ads to you on other websites after you've visited our website. This practice is known as remarketing and is a tool that Google offers to businesses. But here are the basics: we, along with third-party vendors, Google, use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) to inform, optimize, and serve ads based on your past visits to our website.

Security

We follow accepted industry standards to protect any personal information you have provided to us. However, please be aware that no method of electronic storage can ever be 100%% secure. Therefore—as is the case with any organization—we are not in a position to guarantee the absolute security of your information.

Legal Disclaimer

We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order or legal process served on our website. If you provide your e-mail address in our products, we may send you technical and product e-mails; you can unsubscribe at any time.