The short version
- There is no account. Nothing to sign up for, no password, no profile.
- Nothing about the windows you protect ever leaves your computer — not their names, not their contents, not how many there are.
- The app makes exactly two kinds of network request: a once-a-day check for a newer version, and a license check if you buy Pro.
- The website sets no cookies. It counts page views with Cloudflare Web Analytics, which sets nothing in your browser and cannot follow you anywhere else.
- We count a few things ourselves — update checks, installer downloads, presses of the Store and Buy buttons — and none of those counts records who you are.
The rest of this page is the same thing said precisely.
Who publishes this
The Hushglass website and Hushglass for Windows are published by Lakshay Bansal, an individual operating from Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh, India. Write to hello@hushglass.com about anything on this page.
What leaves your computer
Two things do, and one thing never does. This is the whole of it.
| What | When | Who receives it |
|---|---|---|
| A request for a small text file holding the current version number | Once a day, in the background | hushglass.com, hosted on Cloudflare |
| Your license key, and an activation record identifying this computer | Only if you own Pro: when you enter the key, and on a silent re-check roughly every two weeks | Dodo Payments, our payment and licensing provider |
| Anything about the windows you protect — their names, their contents, their number, a screenshot, a keystroke | Never | Nobody |
The daily version check
Once per day the app fetches a small static text file over HTTPS to see whether a newer version exists. It sends no information about you or your computer — it is an ordinary web request, the same shape as opening a page in a browser. As with any web request, the server that answers it records the usual connection data: your IP address, the time, and the identifying string the request carries.
If the newer version exists you get one notification, once, and clicking it opens the download page in your browser. If the request fails for any reason — you are offline, the file is missing, the network is blocked — the app says nothing and carries on. It never downloads or installs anything by itself.
We count these checks. Each one is kept as the time it arrived, and the app's version if the request states one — no IP address, and nothing that could tell one computer from another — for three months. Added up by day, that tells us roughly how many copies of Hushglass are in use, and nothing about whose they are.
If you installed from the Microsoft Store
The Store keeps its copies of Hushglass up to date itself, so a Store copy skips the version check above. Microsoft shows us totals about Store installs, as it does for every app in the Store: how many installs there were, how many devices opened the app, how long sessions last and how many people uninstalled, broken down by country, app version and broad age group. Windows collects that data under Microsoft's privacy statement, only where Windows is set to share usage data with Microsoft, and Hushglass plays no part in it. Nothing in those totals identifies you to us.
The license check, if you buy Pro
Free never touches the license system at all. If you buy Pro and paste your key into the app, the app calls Dodo Payments to activate it, and afterwards re-checks it quietly in the background if more than about two weeks have passed since the last check. Both calls go over TLS 1.2 or better.
What those calls contain:
- Your license key, because that is the thing being checked.
- An activation identifier returned by Dodo when the key was first activated, so a later check does not consume one of the two activations your key allows.
- A short label for this computer, sent once at activation. It is the app version followed by the first eight characters of a one-way hash. That hash is computed on your machine from an identifier Windows already generates for itself, and the full value is never sent. The label is deliberately not your computer's name: it distinguishes two machines for a support request without telling anyone anything about either.
Dodo Payments handles that data under its own privacy terms, as an independent controller of it — see Dodo Payments' privacy policy. If a check cannot reach the network, nothing changes: the app stays Pro and tries again later. Only an explicit answer that a key is no longer valid ever changes your tier.
What the app keeps on your computer
Three things, all local, all yours to delete:
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%APPDATA%\Hushglass\settings.txt— your settings, as plain readablekey=valuelines. Open it in Notepad if you want to see it. Deleting it returns every setting to its default. -
%APPDATA%\Hushglass\license.txt— present only if you own Pro. It holds your key, the activation identifier, the machine hash and the date of the last successful check. Deleting it returns the app to Free; pasting the key again restores Pro on the same machine without costing you an activation. - One Windows registry value, the standard startup entry every Windows application uses to start with Windows. Hushglass switches it on once, the first time version 1.0.5 or later runs on your computer, whether that is a new install or an update, so it is already running before your first call. Switch off "Start automatically when my computer starts" in Settings and it is removed, and no later version switches it back on. The Microsoft Store version writes no value of its own: it uses the startup setting Windows keeps for Store apps, which comes on the first time you open the app and can be switched off in that same Settings row or in Windows under Apps > Startup.
There are no other files, no background services, no drivers and no database. Uninstalling the app and deleting that folder removes everything it ever wrote.
What the app never does
To be explicit, because a privacy tool that is vague about this has failed at its own job. Hushglass does not read, store or transmit the contents of any window. It does not take screenshots. It does not record keystrokes, clipboard contents, browsing history or which applications you run. It carries no telemetry, no crash reporting, no advertising identifier and no third-party analytics or tracking code of any kind. It reads window titles on your machine only to draw the list you pick from, and those titles never leave it.
When you send feedback from inside the app
The feedback box does not send anything. It hands a pre-written message to your own email application, and nothing has left your computer until you press send there yourself. Attached to the message is a short diagnostics block: the app version, your Windows edition and build number, and whether you are on Free or Pro. Nothing else — no window names, no contents, no logs, no screenshots. The message is visible in your email client before you send it, so you can read or edit it first. If you close the box, no draft is kept.
Buying Pro
Dodo Payments is the merchant of record for every Hushglass purchase. Checkout happens on their systems, so your card details never reach this website, this app, or us. What we receive from Dodo is the order record and the email address you bought with, which is where your license key is sent. We keep purchase records for as long as Indian tax and accounting law requires, which we treat as eight years, and email correspondence for as long as it is useful to support you.
The website
hushglass.com is a set of static pages, and one small counting script, served by Cloudflare. Cloudflare processes the ordinary connection data every web server sees — IP address, request time, browser identification — in order to serve and protect the site, under Cloudflare's data processing addendum.
- No cookies. The site sets none.
- Cookieless analytics. Page views are counted by Cloudflare Web Analytics. Cloudflare adds its measurement script to each page as the page is served; it is not part of this site's own code. It sets no cookie, stores nothing in your browser and builds no profile. It reports aggregate totals — how many people opened a page, and which site linked them here — and it cannot follow you to any other website. Cloudflare lists what it collects in its Web Analytics documentation.
- One third-party request. Fonts are served from this domain rather than a font provider. The single exception is the analytics script above, which loads from static.cloudflareinsights.com. Nothing else on a page contacts anyone.
- Counts of our own. When you press the Microsoft Store button or a Buy Pro button, the page tells this site which button it was; the link itself goes straight to Microsoft or to Dodo Payments as before. Installer downloads, from this site or through winget, are counted as the file is served, along with whether a browser or winget asked for it. Each count is kept as what happened and when — no IP address, no cookie, nothing that tells one visitor from another — for three months, and we read them only as daily totals.
- No browser storage. The site writes nothing to your browser's storage.
Children
Hushglass is a tool for people who present and record their work. It is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect anything from them. There is nothing to collect: the product has no accounts.
Your rights over your data
For the application there is nothing to request, because there is nothing held about you: no account exists, and the two files described above are on your own disk, readable and deletable by you at any moment. For purchase records and email correspondence, write to hello@hushglass.com and we will tell you what exists, correct it, or delete it where we are not required to keep it. Data held by Dodo Payments as merchant of record is requested from them directly.
Changes to this policy
If the app's behaviour changes, this page changes first or at the same time — never afterwards. The date below is the date of the version you are reading.