Privacy Policy

Last updated: 13 November 2026

Who is responsible

sol og maane is the data controller for the personal data described in this policy. sol og maane is a sole proprietorship registered in Denmark.

Write to hello@gaka.app with any question about your data.

What stays on your Mac

Gaka has no analytics, no telemetry and no crash reporting. Your clipboard history, snippets, usage statistics, bookmarks and file index are stored on your Mac and are never sent to us.

Web searches open in your own browser, so the search goes from your browser to the search engine and not through Gaka.

Visiting gaka.app

gaka.app is hosted by Cloudflare. When you visit the site or download Gaka, Cloudflare receives your IP address, the page or file you ask for, and the information your browser sends with every request, such as the browser's name and version. Cloudflare processes this on our behalf to deliver the site.

Cloudflare does not tell us how long it keeps these server logs. Its data processing agreement says that it keeps the data until we stop being its customer, or until it no longer needs the data to provide the service, whichever comes first.

Legal basis: our legitimate interest in delivering the website.

The free trial

When you use Gaka without a license, it sends an identifier for your Mac and the version of Gaka to our server at api.gaka.app, and our server answers with the start and end of your 14-day trial. The identifier is the same one Gaka sends when you activate it, described under "Activating Gaka on a Mac".

Gaka asks when it starts and when you open it, at most once a minute, until it has an answer. Gaka saves the answer on your Mac, and while it is there, Gaka does not ask again.

We store the identifier and the time your Mac first asked, so that the trial starts only once on each Mac, even if you install Gaka again. We keep this for as long as we sell Gaka. Cloudflare also keeps technical logs of these requests, as described under "Activating Gaka on a Mac".

Legal basis: our legitimate interest in giving each Mac one free trial.

Buying a license

Our order process is conducted by our online reseller Paddle.com. Paddle.com is the Merchant of Record for all our orders. Paddle collects the information it needs for the payment and for tax, such as your email address, your country and your payment details, and handles it as an independent controller under its own privacy notice. We never receive your full card number.

From the information Paddle sends us about your order, we keep your email address and the order number.

Legal basis: performance of our contract with you.

Your license key

Your license key, your email address and the order number are stored in our license database. The database runs on Cloudflare and is kept in the European Union.

We use your email address to send you your key, to send it again if you lose it, and to find your license when you write to us. Lettermint, an email delivery service, sends the key on our behalf.

We keep this data for as long as your license is valid. If your purchase is refunded, we delete your email address and your Macs, and keep only the key, marked as blocked so it cannot be activated again. If you ask us to delete your data, we delete your email address and keep the key and your Macs, so Gaka keeps working on your Macs. You can also ask us to delete everything, including the key. Gaka then keeps working on the Macs where it is already activated, but the key cannot be activated again.

Legal basis: performance of our contract with you.

Activating Gaka on a Mac

When you activate Gaka, it sends your license key, an identifier for your Mac and the version of Gaka to our server at api.gaka.app, once. The identifier is a hash of an ID that belongs to your Mac, combined with a value that only Gaka knows, so it cannot be used to recognize your Mac anywhere else. A license covers up to 2 Macs, and we use the identifier to count them.

When you release a Mac in Gaka's settings, Gaka sends the key, the identifier and the version again, and we delete that Mac from your license. We keep a Mac's identifier until you release it, or until we release it for you through support.

Legal basis: performance of our contract with you.

Cloudflare runs our server. It keeps technical logs of each request to api.gaka.app for 3 days, so that we can find the error when an activation or a trial fails. These logs can include your IP address.

Legal basis: our legitimate interest in finding and fixing errors.

Update checks

Once a day, Gaka asks gaka.app whether a new version exists. The request contains the version of Gaka and the version of Sparkle, the update framework Gaka uses. Gaka sends no other information about your Mac with it. Cloudflare sees your IP address, as described under "Visiting gaka.app".

Legal basis: our legitimate interest in delivering updates and security fixes to you.

Currency rates

When Currency is turned on in Gaka's calculator settings, Gaka downloads the day's exchange rates directly from the European Central Bank at ecb.europa.eu, at most once a day. The European Central Bank sees your IP address. We receive nothing from this request. When Currency is turned off, Gaka makes no such request.

Legal basis: our legitimate interest in showing current exchange rates.

Email to us

When you write to hello@gaka.app, we receive your email address and what you write. Our email is hosted by Apple's iCloud Mail. We use your email to answer you and to help you with your license.

We keep your email while your case is open, and for up to 12 months after the last message.

Legal basis: performance of our contract with you, or steps you ask us to take before you buy.

Who receives your data

• Cloudflare, Inc., United States, hosts gaka.app and Gaka's updates, and runs our server and our license database. The database is kept in the European Union.
• Apple Distribution International Limited, Ireland, hosts our email.
• Lettermint B.V., the Netherlands, sends your license key by email on our behalf. It processes the email in the European Union.
• Paddle, as Merchant of Record, under its own privacy notice.
• Advisers such as an accountant or a lawyer, when we need their help.
• Public authorities, when the law requires us to share data with them.

We do not sell your data, and we do not share it for advertising.

Legal basis for sharing with authorities: our legal obligations.

Transfers outside the EEA

Cloudflare is based in the United States and may process data there. It is certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, which the European Commission has found to give adequate protection, and uses the EU Standard Contractual Clauses if the framework no longer applies. Apple uses the EU Standard Contractual Clauses for transfers out of the EEA.

Security

Gaka and the website talk to our servers only over HTTPS. Only sol og maane has access to the license database and to the support mailbox.

Cookies

gaka.app sets no cookies of its own and uses no analytics. When you download Gaka, we add one to a count of downloads for that day. The count stores nothing about you: no IP address, no browser details and no identifier. To open the checkout, gaka.app loads Paddle.js, a script from Paddle. Paddle's checkout may use cookies or similar storage in your browser to process your payment.

Your rights

You have the right to:

• see the data we hold about you and get a copy of it,
• have it corrected,
• have it deleted,
• restrict how we use it,
• receive it in a machine-readable format,
• object to how we use it where we rely on our legitimate interest.

Write to hello@gaka.app. We answer within one month. For the data Paddle holds about your payment, write to Paddle at privacy@paddle.com.

You can also complain to the Danish Data Protection Agency, Datatilsynet, at datatilsynet.dk, or to the data protection authority in the country where you live.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy. The date at the top shows when it last changed.