Who is responsible
Areeb Ahmer ("we"), who makes SpDev, is responsible for the data described here. Contact: [email protected].
What never leaves your machine
SpDev connects only to the SQL Server database you choose. Your SQL code, the data it reads, the results, execution plans, profiles and your connection strings stay on your computer. Connection strings are kept in VS Code's secret storage. We never receive any of them.
The free debugger
The free debugger doesn't contact our servers at all, and has no telemetry of its own.
SpDev Pro licence checks
When you start a trial or activate a licence, and about once a day after that, SpDev Pro contacts our licence server at spdev.app. It sends:
- your licence key (not for a trial);
- a SHA-256 hash of VS Code's machine id, which identifies the machine without revealing anything about it;
- the computer's name, so you can recognise your machines when you free a seat;
- the version of SpDev.
We use these only to count and free seats, to stop a key being shared beyond its seats, and to answer support questions. The server stores licence keys encrypted.
When you buy
Paddle.com, our reseller and merchant of record, processes your payment. Paddle collects your payment details, billing address and tax information under its own privacy policy; we never see your card number. Paddle shares with us your name, email address, country, company name if you give one, and the order details, so we can create and send your licence and help you with it.
This website
The website sets no cookies and shows no advertising. It uses Cloudflare Web Analytics to count visits and measure how fast pages load. Cloudflare Web Analytics doesn't use cookies or local storage, and doesn't fingerprint visitors. Like every web server, ours keeps standard access logs (IP address, page, time and browser) for security and troubleshooting; they are deleted after 14 days. The site is delivered through Cloudflare, which also protects it from attacks.
We email you your licence key and messages about your licence, such as a renewal or a refund. We don't send marketing email unless you ask for it.
How long we keep data
- A machine that stops checking in is released from its licence after 45 days, and can be released earlier on the licence page.
- Licence records: while the licence is active, and afterwards only as long as we need them for support, refunds and our accounts.
- Trial records: kept so the same machine can't start a new trial each time. They hold only the machine hash and dates.
- Orders and invoices: as long as tax law requires. Paddle keeps its own records of payments.
Who processes data for us
- Paddle.com: payments, invoices and taxes.
- Cloudflare: hosting of the licence server and its database, delivery of this website, and its cookie-free analytics.
- Our email provider: sending licence emails.
We don't sell personal data, and we don't share it with anyone else unless the law requires us to.
Your rights
You can ask us for a copy of the data we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it, by writing to [email protected]. Deleting your data also deactivates any licence attached to it. If you are in the EU or the UK, you can also complain to your data protection authority.
Changes
If we change this policy, we will post the new version here with a new date.