Privacy

Sidehand runs entirely on your computer. It has no account, no cloud service and no analytics.

The app

• Sidehand does not send anything about you or your work to us or anyone else. Its parts talk to each other only on your own computer (127.0.0.1).
• Update check: once a day, and only if you leave it switched on in settings, Sidehand downloads a small signed file from GitHub (github.com) to see whether a new version exists. The request carries no account, ID or usage data; like any download, GitHub sees your IP address. When you choose to update, the installer is downloaded from the same place and checked against its signature before it runs.
• Screenshots and the controls an agent observes go only to the AI app that asked for them. That app's own privacy policy covers what it sends to its model.
• License check: when you connect a computer, and with the daily update check, Sidehand sends your license key, a scrambled computer ID and a name for the computer (so you can recognise it on My licenses) to our server, to check the license and the number of computers. Never your screen, your typing or your files.
• Logs stay on your computer and never contain typed text, field contents or images. You can delete them at any time.

Stored on your computer

• Your license and the result of the last license check.
• Your agents' settings: names, cursors, colours, which AI app and which app each one works in.
• Whether to check for updates, and the result of the last check.
• Where each agent's cursor was last, so it reappears in the same place.
• Logs, kept to a few megabytes.

Windows: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Sidehand. macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Sidehand and ~/Library/Logs/Sidehand.

Buying a license

When you buy, our shop records your name, email address, billing country and order, so that we can deliver your download and license, run your account (which Sidehand signs in with), issue the invoice, keep the records the law requires and help you later. When you download Sidehand, our server records the time and your internet address as proof of delivery, and your order keeps a note that you accepted the terms of sale at checkout. We keep these records as long as the law requires us to keep the order. Card payments are handled by our payment provider; we never see or store your card number. We don't sell or share your details.

This website

This site uses only the cookies it needs to work: one that keeps your cart and order while you buy, and one that remembers your cookie choice. There are no analytics, advertising or tracking cookies, and fonts are served from this site, not from a third party.

Contact

Questions or deletion requests: our contact form.