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Privacy Policy

BeatVault Visualiser (Windows) · Last updated 17 October 2026

BeatVault Visualiser ("the app") is made by BeatVault (Shaka D). This policy explains what the app does with your information.

Audio

To create visuals that react to your music, the app listens to audio on your PC. Depending on the source you choose, this is your microphone or the sound your PC is playing.

• Audio is analysed in memory, in real time, only to drive the visuals.
• Audio is never recorded, saved to disk or sent anywhere.
• Windows asks for your permission before the app can use the microphone. You can turn this off at any time in Windows Settings → Privacy & security → Microphone.

Local connection for the preview and streaming apps

The app runs a small local server on your PC, at an address starting http://127.0.0.1, so the preview, streaming apps like OBS, or a web browser on the same PC can show the visuals. This server only accepts connections from your own PC. It can't be reached from the internet or your local network.

Settings

Your preferences, such as your chosen audio devices, microphone level, display options and colour schemes, are stored on your PC only.

Free trial and licence key

The app includes a 14-day free trial. After that, it needs a licence key, which you buy from us separately.

• Machine ID: the app shows a short code, your Machine ID, so we can make a licence key that works on your PC. It is made by one-way scrambling (hashing) an ID that Windows gives your PC, so it can't be turned back into that ID and doesn't identify you. The Buy a licence and pack Get buttons add it to the checkout link, so it reaches us with your order, and the licence check below sends it too.
• Trial date: the date your trial started is stored on your PC only, so the app can count the 14 days.
• Licence key: your key contains the name you bought under, your Machine ID, the date it was issued and the effect packs it includes. It is saved on your PC and checked there.

Licence check

So that a purchase unlocks the app by itself, and a refunded purchase is removed, the app asks our licence server (license.beatvaultapp.com) what your PC should have: when it starts, every few hours while it runs, when you open the licence panel, and every few seconds for a while after you click a buy button. Each check sends only your Machine ID and your current licence key, and gets back an updated key if there is one. It sends nothing about your music, your screen or your use of the app. If your PC is offline, the app keeps working as before and checks again later.

The server keeps, for each purchase, your Machine ID, what you bought, your name and email address as given at checkout, the amount and whether it was refunded, so it can issue and withdraw keys. It runs on Cloudflare, which stores it for us.

What we collect

The app itself collects nothing beyond the licence check above: no account sign-up, no advertising and no analytics.

If you buy a licence, you give us your name, your email address and your Machine ID, and Stripe, which handles the checkout, confirms your order to us. We use these only to issue your licence key, re-issue it if you change PC, answer your questions and keep the business records UK tax law requires. We keep sale records for as long as that law requires (currently about 6 years), then delete them. We never sell or share them, except with Stripe for your purchase, Cloudflare to run the licence server, and when the law requires it.

Payments are handled by Stripe, which sells the licence on our behalf (it appears at checkout and on bank statements as "Onelink") and collects any sales tax or VAT. Stripe processes your payment details under its own privacy policy. We never see your full card or bank details.

Microsoft services

• Microsoft Store: you download and update the app through the Microsoft Store. The app doesn't contact the Store itself, and buying a licence doesn't go through the Store. See the Microsoft Privacy Statement.
• Microsoft Edge WebView2: the app uses this Windows component to display the visuals. WebView2 is provided and updated by Microsoft under the same privacy statement.

Deleting your data

Your settings, trial date and licence key stay on your PC. Uninstalling the app deletes them. If you reinstall on the same PC, the app gets your licence again by itself.

To see or delete the sale record we hold about you, email us. We'll delete everything except what UK tax law requires us to keep.

Children

The app is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect data from anyone.

Changes

If this policy changes, the updated version will be published on this page with a new date.

Contact

Questions? Email hello@beatvaultapp.com.