Privacy policy

We've always been handling your personal details securely and responsibly and we don't plan to change this in the future.

1. General principles

No sharing of personal information.

• We will not sell, rent, or otherwise disclose or share your email address or any other personal information to any third party without first obtaining your explicit consent.
• We are not trying to monetise your personal data, we do not subscribe you to other lists. We will not spam you with irrelevant marketing information.

Trusted and secure service providers.

• We only use trusted and secure service providers like PayPal, Google Analytics, MailChimp.

2. Detailed descriptions of our data collection and processing

Below you can find more details about the kind of data we collect and how we use it.

To make it easy to understand, the details are organised into categories based on the relationship you have with us.

While you are using our website:

• Cookies
  • Our website, like any typical website, uses "cookies".
    A cookie is a small piece of text sent to your browser by a website you visit. It helps the website to remember information about your visit. That can make your next visit easier and the site more useful to you. Cookies play an important role. Without them, using the web would be a much more frustrating experience.
    Cookies enable you to use shopping carts and to personalize your experience on the website, tell us which parts of the website people have visited, help us measure the web traffic and the effectiveness of ads and web searches. They give us insights into user behaviour so we can improve our communications and products.
    No personal information is contained in our cookies.
  • By browsing our website you accept the use of cookies.
  • You can turn off the cookies from the settings of your internet browser. Alternatively, if you start your browsers in "private" or "incognito" mode, all cookies are temporary and will be deleted after you close your browser.
  • To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
• How to change my cookie settings?
  Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings.
  Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:

  To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer's website.

  • Google Chrome
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Mozilla Firefox
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer
  • Opera
  • Apple Safari
• Web traffic and usage patterns
  • For the web traffic statistics, we might use Google Analytics and HotJar.
    The majority of the websites use Google Analytics, so, the details below explain what happens when you visit a typical website (also our own website).
    HotJar is a tool that anonymously collects the usage patterns of the website pages and allows us to optimize the information of each page to fit the needs of the visitor.
  • Google Analytics collects statistical data like time and duration of visit, pages visited, country, city, operating system, screen resolution, bounce rate, entry and exit pages.
    The data collected do not contain personal information (your name, email, address, IP address, etc).
    In the web statistics, You, as a visitor, are represented by a "cookie" which is a random number created by your internet browser.
    This random, but stable number, allows Google Analytics to understand if you are coming the first time on the website, or you are a frequent user.
    You can visit our website with a new random number if you use "private browsing". Then, you are seen as a brand new visitor.
    You may opt out of Google Analytics across all websites.
  • The purpose we monitor web traffic and usage patterns is that the collected statistics help us improve the website and understand the impact of our advertising.
• Downloading software
  • We do not ask you to create a user account with us nor ask you to provide us with any personal details in order for you to download our software. You can download our software without any extra requirements.
  • Our software downloads are hosted on GitHub. When downloading, the GitHub policies apply.

When you contact us:

• When you send information via an online form on our website or through any other means such as fax or email, the personal data that you provide arrives at us (name, email, etc).
• We will keep your information private.
• When contacting us via our website contact form, or by email, your data will be stored in our email application, outside of the website.
  We keep your email as it will help us serve you better if you contact us again in the future.
• We might contact you to inform you about your question and our products, to give you usage guidelines and advice, to offer upgrades or alternatives, or to announce important news of our business.
• We will not spam you.
• We will not share your information with others.
• How to remove your data: At any time you can send us a simple email requesting to remove all the information we have from you.
• The purpose we keep this information is to enable us to process and fulfil your order or support you and answer your questions.

When installing or using our software:

• Our software products and services are 100% free of Spyware, Adware and Malware.
• We do not bundle our installation files with any 3rd party advertising platform. No extra unneeded software will be installed on your computer.
• The StarMessage screensaver and StarReminder use our runtime statistics library to measure anonymously the number of installations and runs of the software.
  Runtime statistics are similar to Google Analytics.
  No personal data are collected. No IP addresses are collected. Only aggregated figures (e.g. totals, averages, monthly installations) are generated.
  The collected statistics help us improve the software and allows us the early detection of possible compatibility problems with new/old operating systems.
• The purpose we use runtime statistics is that it allows us to build better applications by focusing on what matters most to the users (e.g. which features they use the most) and also get notified of application problems so we can correct them faster.
• From inside our applications, you can opt-in and opt-out of the use of application telemetry.

When you buy products or services:

• Your electronic order and payment are placed directly on our payment processor (e.g. PayPal, PayPro Global, etc).
  The payment processor's terms of service and privacy policy apply.
• We partner only with the industry leaders' payment processors.
• Orders completed successfully on the payment processor's platform, arrive at us.
  We only use the personal data that you provide when placing an order.
• Former payment processors.
  In the past years, we have used these payment processors: AroSystems, SetSystems, RegNow, PayPal.
  Orders placed at those payment processors also included your address (as you entered it during the payment) and IP address of the computer you placed the order from.
  While we do not keep this extra information in our list of customers, the information remains at your emailing system where the successful order notifications are archived.
  These are kept for future reference, in case you contact us about the past purchase.
• No credit/debit card information arrives at us.
• We keep a list of customers and their orders.
• We will not share your information with others.
• We might contact you to inform you about the products you bought, to give you usage guidelines and advice, to offer upgrades or alternatives, or to announce important news of our business.
• The purpose of collecting and keeping this information is to evidence that you have purchased a product and you are a registered user, to enable us to process your orders and provide after-sales support.
• How to remove your data: At any time you can send us a simple email (or use our Data erasure form) requesting to remove all the information we have from you. Erasing your details from our list of customers will mean that will not be able to provide you with after sales support in the future.