Privacy Policy

Last updated: August 4, 2026

Sonault is a native macOS app sold with a one-time purchase. We collect the minimum needed to sell you the app and keep your license working — nothing else. No ads, and we never sell your data.

Website analytics

This website uses two privacy-friendly, cookieless analytics tools: Umami (self-hosted on our own server) and PostHog (processed on our behalf in the EU). Neither stores cookies or identifiers in your browser, and neither collects personal data — only aggregate page views and interactions (like which button was clicked), so we can understand how visitors find and use this site. PostHog may record anonymous sessions (scrolling and clicks) with anything you type fully masked, so we can fix usability problems. None of it is used for advertising or shared beyond these tools, and no consent banner is required because no personal data is processed.

Who is responsible for your data

Sonault is operated by GF TECH TECNOLOGIA LTDA, registered in Brazil under CNPJ 41.587.586/0001-10. We are the controller of the personal data described below. For any privacy request, email hello@sonault.com.

Your sound library stays on your Mac

The sounds you import, your labels, favorites, and search history live in a folder on your Mac and are never uploaded to us. When you import from a link, your Mac downloads the audio directly from the source (for example YouTube or Freesound); that traffic does not pass through our servers.

What we collect, and why

Account: your email address. Sign-in codes are stored only as cryptographic hashes and expire after 10 minutes.
Devices: to enforce the 3-Mac limit, each signed-in Mac reports its name, hardware model, macOS and app version, and a one-way hash of its hardware identifier (we never receive the identifier itself).
Security: the IP address and country of sign-ins and license checks, kept to prevent abuse and account takeover.
Purchases: payment is processed entirely by Stripe. We receive your email, name, country, and the amount paid — never your card number.

Services we rely on

Stripe (payments), Resend (transactional email), Vercel (hosting), Neon (database), and Upstash (rate limiting) process data on our behalf under their own privacy policies. The app checks GitHub for updates; that request is a standard download and includes no account data.

Retention and deletion

We keep account and purchase records while your license is active and as required for accounting. Email hello@sonault.com to access or delete your data — a human handles it.

Changes

If this policy changes in a way that matters, we update this page and the date above.