Privacy Policy

Vhostly is made by Mehmet Salih Yaldız, an independent developer in Türkiye. For anything on this page, contact us.

When Vhostly starts, and every few hours while it is open, it sends one small report so we know how many installs are in use. A report contains:

• a random install id generated on your Mac, which is not linked to you or your Mac's hardware,
• the Vhostly version and the macOS version number,
• the country and city worked out from the request. We do not store your IP address with it.

Reports go to vhostly.app, and to Google Analytics when the build includes it. No site names, paths, document roots, ports or file contents are ever sent. You can switch reports off in Settings → Privacy. Running Vhostly from source in development mode reports nothing.

The app downloads vhostly.app/news.json to show release notes and security notices. This is a plain download; it sends nothing about you.

When you activate a license key, the app talks to our license server, api.vhostly.app. It stores:

• a one-way hash of your license key (not the key itself), its last four characters, and its plan,
• the email address and order number from your purchase, as passed on by Lemon Squeezy,
• for each Mac using the key: a device id, the Mac's name as shown in Sharing settings, the Vhostly version, and when it was activated and last checked in.

The device id is a hash made on your Mac from a random value in your Keychain and its hardware id; neither of those is sent. This is what keeps one key to three Macs and lets you see and remove Macs in Settings. The app checks in about once a week to renew the license. Removing a Mac in Settings frees its place immediately.

Purchases are handled by Lemon Squeezy, our merchant of record. They collect your name, email, billing address and payment details under their privacy policy. We never see your card details. We receive your name, email and order details so we can provide your license and support.

• Analytics and cookies: vhostly.app can use Google Analytics to count visits and see which pages are read. It loads, and sets its cookies, only if you choose Accept in the cookie notice; Decline is the same as never visiting Google. Your choice is kept in this browser, and you can change it any time from Cookie settings at the bottom of every page. The site sets no other cookies.
• Downloads: when you download the app we record the time, the country and city, and whether the request came from a Mac. Not your IP address.
• Contact form: we keep your message, the reply address if you give one, the app version if you add it, and the country and city. We use it only to answer you.
• Server logs: like every web server, ours keeps short-lived technical logs, including IP addresses, for security and troubleshooting.

Only the services named here: Lemon Squeezy for payments, Google Analytics for usage counts, and GitHub, which hosts the app download. We do not sell or rent personal data, and we do not use it for advertising.

• License records for as long as the license exists, and as long as the law requires for purchase records.
• Usage reports and download counts in aggregate form; individual rows are deleted when they are no longer useful.
• Contact messages until the conversation is finished, then deleted on request.

You can switch off usage reports at any time. You can ask us to see, correct or delete the personal data we hold about you; send us a message. Deleting license data also removes the license from every Mac. Depending on where you live you may have further rights under laws such as the GDPR or KVKK, and you can complain to your data protection authority.

Material changes to this policy will be announced in the app's News panel and noted at the top of this page.