Privacy Policy (GDPR)

Zones is designed to work locally. Your files never leave your computer: they are only moved/displayed within folders in your profile. Only licensing, updates, and support use the network.

1. Data Controller

Fortis Apps Studio (see legal notices for contact details).

2. Data processed

Purchase & activation: email address, technical device identifier (derived from hardware), key, plan, and license status.
Support (in-app or email): email address, subject and category, message content, any attached images, software version, operating system name, and device identifier.
Update check: the published version is queried; no personal data is required.

The software performs no advertising profiling and does not sell your data.

3. Anonymous audience measurement (cookieless)

This site measures its traffic to improve content and usability. This measurement is anonymous and works without any cookies: we do not place anything on your device and use neither Google Analytics, nor advertising tools, nor third-party tracking services.

Specifically, to distinguish visits without identifying you, an anonymous identifier is recalculated on the server side based on a technical footprint (IP address + browser) transformed by a daily hash: your IP address is never stored, and since the calculation key changes every day, it is impossible to track you from one day to the next.

The only information retained is: pages viewed, links and buttons clicked, scroll depth, time spent, referring page, browser language, device type (computer / mobile / tablet), and approximate country. No data allows you to be personally identified, none is sold or shared for marketing purposes.

Why is there no cookie banner? Because no information is read from or written to your device, the consent obligation specific to cookies (ePrivacy Directive) does not apply. The measurement relies on the legitimate interest of the data controller (GDPR Article 6.1.f) to know the traffic of their site, and the data is kept for a maximum of 90 days before automatic deletion.

Opting out of measurement: Since the data is anonymous, you can opt out at any time with a single click on this device:

4. Purposes & legal bases

Management of license, activation, and updates — performance of a contract.
Provision of support — performance of a contract / legitimate interest.
Compliance with legal obligations (accounting, tax).

5. Subcontractors & hosting

Data hosted by subcontractors under GDPR Article 28:

Cloudflare — licensing/support database and attachment storage;
Resend — email sending (license key, support replies);
Stripe and, where applicable, PayPal — payment processing.

6. Transfers outside the European Union

Some of these providers (Cloudflare, Resend, Stripe, PayPal) may process data outside the EU, particularly in the United States. These transfers are framed by mechanisms provided for by the GDPR (standard contractual clauses and/or the EU-US Data Privacy Framework).

7. Retention period

Data is kept for the time necessary for the purposes (duration of the contractual relationship for the license, reasonable period after closure for support), then deleted or anonymized, subject to applicable legal durations.

8. Your rights

You have a right of access, rectification, erasure, limitation, opposition, and portability, as well as the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.

To exercise these rights: contact@fortis-apps-studio.com.

See also the Terms of Use / EULA and the legal notices.