# Privacy Policy — Thockly

> How Thockly handles data on your PC and on this website.

- **Website:** https://thockly.app/privacy
- **Canonical:** https://thockly.app/privacy
- **Last Updated:** August 24, 2026

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## Overview

This policy describes how **Thockly** (the Windows desktop application) and this website treat information. The app is engineered for local sound playback with a strict privacy-first posture.

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## Windows Desktop Application

### What We Do NOT Collect
- Typed text, characters, passwords, or clipboard content.
- Analytics or advertising identifiers inside the desktop application.
- Keystroke logging beyond low-level virtual key codes needed to play sounds.

### What the App Processes Locally
- **Keyboard input:** A low-level hook receives virtual key codes and timing so the matching switch sound can play. No character content is reconstructed or stored.
- **Mouse and trackpad input:** Button and scroll events (and normalized trackpad contact position for spatial audio) are used only to trigger sounds.
- **Settings:** Volume, profiles, startup preferences, and sound options are saved locally on your PC under Windows application data.
- **Licensing:** Trial and license state is stored locally (protected with Windows DPAPI where applicable).

### When the App Uses the Network
Core typing and pointer sounds work completely offline without internet access. The app connects only in these cases:
1. **License activation and validation:** Communicates with Lemon Squeezy (license key, instance identifiers, and your PC name as the instance label at activation).
2. **Update checks:** Queries [GitHub Releases](https://github.com/zioder/thockly-releases) for public installer releases.

### Windows Permissions
- Global low-level keyboard and mouse hooks.
- Audio output through your default Windows sound device.
- Optional "start with Windows" entry in your user Run registry key.

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## Marketing Website

- **Browser Demos:** Interactive switch and mouse demos execute client-side in your browser; sounds are fetched from this site and no typing data is sent to our servers.
- **Downloads:** Free trial links directly to the public Windows installer hosted on GitHub Releases.
- **Checkout:** Purchases are securely handled by Lemon Squeezy in an embedded checkout. Payment data is processed under [Lemon Squeezy Privacy Policy](https://www.lemonsqueezy.com/privacy).
- **Analytics:** No third-party tracking or advertising scripts are loaded.

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## Contact
- Privacy questions: Open an issue on [GitHub](https://github.com/zioder/thockly-releases/issues) or email support@thockly.app.
- Terms of service: [https://thockly.app/terms](https://thockly.app/terms)