Privacy Policy
Overview
Pad Oil is a macOS app made and sold by YULA Development LLC. Pad Oil works on your Mac: your samples, kits and library never leave it. This policy explains what little data we do receive, how we use it, and what we don’t do with it.
Data We Collect
Purchase information: Paddle handles payment and is the merchant of record. When you buy Pad Oil, Paddle collects your name, email address, and payment details. We receive confirmation of the purchase and your transaction id, which is your licence key. We never see or store your card details.
Licence checks: Pad Oil sends padoil.com only your licence key, a one-way hash of your Mac’s id, and its own version string (the User-Agent). The hash can’t be turned back into the id. It sends them only when you activate, deactivate, or about every 14 days to check the licence. We store the key, the hash and the activation date to enforce the 2-Mac limit and to stop refunded keys from working.
Activation details: Our server also sees the IP address each request comes from. We store Pad Oil’s version string and a one-way hash of the IP address with each activation, never the address itself. We use them only to spot misuse of a key, such as one key being activated from many places.
Update checks: Pad Oil checks GitHub for updates about once a day. You can turn this off in Settings → General. GitHub, not padoil.com, serves the update file and the download, so GitHub sees your IP address when Pad Oil checks or downloads. Your licence key and Mac’s id are never sent with the check.
Account page: When you use the Account page, your browser sends your licence key to padoil.com to list your Macs or free a slot. We show only the first characters of each hash there.
Support communications: If you contact us at hello@padoil.com, we keep your email and our correspondence to provide support.
Data We Do Not Collect
Pad Oil does not collect telemetry, usage analytics, crash reports, or any data about how you use the app. It never uploads your samples, file names, or library. This website uses no analytics and sets no cookies of its own.
Third-Party Services
Paddle: Handles checkout, payment, tax, receipts and refunds as merchant of record. Its checkout may set its own cookies. See Paddle’s Privacy Policy.
Vercel: Hosts this website and the licence server. Standard web server logs (IP address, browser, page visited) are kept per Vercel’s Privacy Policy.
GitHub: Serves the Pad Oil download and the daily update check. See GitHub’s Privacy Statement.
Data Retention
Purchase records are kept for 7 years for tax and accounting purposes. Licence records are kept for as long as the licence exists. Support emails are kept for 2 years. You may ask us to delete your personal data at any time.
Your Rights
You have the right to access, correct, or delete your personal data. To exercise these rights, email hello@padoil.com. We will respond within 30 days.
Contact
Privacy questions or requests: hello@padoil.com