Privacy Policy

Last updated: July 2026

The short version: BeaconFind runs entirely on your PC. Your files, your search queries, and your index never leave your machine — the app has no telemetry and no analytics. The only data we ever process is the minimum needed to sell you a license, deliver updates, and answer support email.

1. Who we are

BeaconFind is developed and sold by the operator listed in the Impressum. For anything privacy-related, contact support@beaconfind.app.

2. What the desktop app does — and doesn't — send

Never transmitted, under any circumstances: your files, file contents, file names, folder structure, search queries, chat questions, AI answers, or the search index. All AI models run locally on your hardware, and the index is encrypted on your disk.

The app talks to our servers in exactly three situations:

• License activation & trial: when you start a trial or activate a license key, the app sends your email address (trial only), the license key, a device-bound public key (so a license can't be copied to unlimited machines), and the app + Windows version. That's how we enforce the 3-device limit.
• Update checks: the app periodically asks our update server whether a newer version exists. This request contains the app version, update channel, and platform — no personal data.
• AI model downloads: on first launch the app downloads its AI models from our content delivery network (Cloudflare). Standard web-server logs (IP address, requested file) apply, as with any download.

You can block all of this at the firewall and the app keeps working — search stays fully functional offline; only activation, updates, and first-time model downloads need a connection.

3. Purchases

Payments are processed by Stripe; your card details go directly to Stripe and never touch our servers. We receive your email address, the product purchased, and the payment status so we can issue your license key and honour the 30-day refund policy. Stripe's own privacy policy applies to the checkout.

4. Email

We send transactional email only — trial verification codes, license keys, and replies to your support requests — via Resend. No newsletters without an explicit, separate opt-in, and no marketing lists you didn't join.

5. This website

• Hosted on Cloudflare Pages; Cloudflare processes standard access logs (IP address, requested page) to serve and protect the site.
• No advertising, no tracking pixels, no third-party analytics scripts, no cookie banners — because there are no tracking cookies. Your theme preference (light/dark) is stored locally in your browser and never sent anywhere.
• The interactive search demo on the landing page runs entirely in your browser against built-in sample data. Nothing you type in it is transmitted.

6. What we store, and for how long

• License records (email, license key, activated devices): kept for as long as your license is valid, plus what tax law requires for the purchase records.
• Trial records (email, device key): kept to enforce one-trial-per-device.
• Support email: kept as ordinary correspondence.

7. Your rights (GDPR)

If you're in the EU/EEA you have the right to access, correct, delete, and export the personal data we hold about you, and to object to or restrict its processing. Email support@beaconfind.app and we'll handle it — usually within days, at most within the 30 days the law allows. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data-protection authority.

8. Changes

If this policy changes in a way that matters, we'll note it in the app's release notes and update the date at the top of this page.