Privacy
The short version
We do not sell your information. We do not rent it, trade it, or hand it to a partner. Anything you give us is used for the one thing you gave it to us for, and then it stops being used.
The rest of this page is that sentence, in detail, with the parts most privacy policies leave vague made specific. Last updated 6 October 2026.
The software doesn’t phone home
This is the part that matters most, and it is not a policy — it is how the programs are built.
The browser tools on this site run entirely inside your browser. The file you drop on one of them is processed by code already downloaded to your machine. It is never uploaded, because there is nowhere to upload it to. You can confirm this yourself: open the tool, turn off your network, and use it. It keeps working. Open your browser’s network tab while you use it and you will see nothing go out.
The Windows programs work the same way. Dictation happens on your own processor. Photos are read off your own drive. There is no account to create, no sign-in, no licence server to check with, no usage reporting, no crash telemetry, and no “help us improve the product” option that is switched on by default. There is no server behind any of it, which is also why we can promise the software will keep working if this company stops existing.
If a future version ever needs to make a network request, it will say so plainly, it will say why, and it will be something you switch on rather than something you discover.
What we actually hold
Three things, and only if you hand them over.
If you email us
Your email is in our mailbox, because that is where email goes. It is used to answer you. It is not added to a mailing list, not used to send you anything you did not ask for, and not passed to anyone.
If you join a notify list
Your name and your email address, and nothing else — no company, no phone number, no IP address, no record of which page you came from. It is used for exactly one message: the one telling you that product is ready. Not a newsletter, not an announcement about a different product, not a “while we have you”. After that email is sent, the list has done its job and is deleted.
If you buy something
The payment itself is handled by the payment processor; we never see or store your card number. We keep what is needed to prove you own what you bought — your name, your email, what you purchased and when — so we can resend your licence if you lose it, which people do. That record is kept because the licence is permanent and a buy-once promise is worthless if we cannot verify the purchase in five years.
What we will never do with it
- Sell it. Not to a data broker, not to an advertiser, not to anybody, at any price.
- Rent or trade it. Including the arrangements that avoid the word “sell” — list swaps, co-marketing, “trusted partners”, affiliate feeds.
- Use it for something else. An address given for one purpose is used for that purpose. A list collected for one product is not reused to advertise another.
- Profile you. No behavioural tracking, no building a picture of what you use and when, no scoring, no segments.
If this business is ever sold, the buyer takes on the obligations on this page along with everything else, and you would be told before anything about your records changed. Nobody is planning that; it is here because a policy that pretends the question cannot arise is less useful than one that answers it.
This website
There is no advertising tag on this site, no Facebook pixel, no third-party script following you from page to page, and no cookie banner — the last one because there are no tracking cookies to ask you about. The only thing stored in your browser is whether you chose the light or dark theme, which stays on your machine and is never sent anywhere.
The web host keeps standard server logs, as every web host does, and we read the summary it produces: how many people visited, which pages they opened, which country or region they came from, and which site sent them. That is counting, not watching. It is a total per page and per region, it identifies nobody, it follows no one between visits, and it exists so we know whether writing something was worth doing.
One honest gap, because this page is no use if it only lists the good parts: the pages currently load their typefaces from Google Fonts, which means your browser makes a request to Google when you open them. We did not intend that and are moving the fonts onto our own server to close it. Until that is done, it is true, and you should know it.
Stopping the email, and your records
Every email we send carries an unsubscribe link, and one click is the whole process — no sign-in, no “tell us why”, no confirmation step. After that you do not hear from us.
Your address stays on a suppression list rather than vanishing, and that is deliberate: it is what guarantees a later mailing cannot reach somebody who already opted out. An address that has simply been erased can be added back by accident; one that is marked as unsubscribed cannot.
If you bought something, the purchase record is kept for as long as the licence lasts, which is forever — that record is the only way we can confirm the purchase and resend your key in five years when you rebuild the machine. Your copy keeps working regardless, because it does not check with us.
You can ask what we hold about you at any time, at support@greatscottlabs.co, and you will get a plain answer from a person rather than a form.
Why this page is short
Most privacy policies are long because they are describing a lot of data collection and would rather you did not read to the end. This one is short because there is not much to describe. The business model is that you pay for the software — so there is no reason to be in the data business as well, and every reason not to be.
If any of this changes, the change will be stated at the top of this page with its date, not slipped in. And if a change ever made this page less protective than it is today, it would not apply backwards to anything you had already given us.