Privacy Policy - Parcse Apps Keep Your Files on Your Device

Provided in English only. For questions in another language, contact hello@parcse.com.

Scope

This Privacy Policy applies to the websites we operate, including parcse.com, macupto.com, and the License Manager (collectively, the "Website"), and to all software applications published by PARCSE, LLC ("Parcse", "we", "us", or "our"), in each edition we distribute, whether downloaded from the Website or obtained through another store (each, a "Product", and collectively, the "Products"). It describes how we collect, use, and protect information when you visit our Website or use any Product.

Controller and Contact

PARCSE, LLC is a Delaware limited liability company and is the controller of the personal information described in this policy. Contact us at hello@parcse.com for questions about this policy or to exercise the rights described below.

Information You Provide

If you contact us by email, we receive your email address and any other information you choose to include in your message. We use that information only to respond to you, manage the correspondence, and maintain related business records. We also receive the information you enter in forms on our Website, in the License Manager, and in our Products, as described below.

Applications. When you apply to one of our programs, we collect the information you enter in the application, such as your name, your email address, and details about your work or studies, together with your language and the IP address of the request. Some applications first send a verification code to an email address you enter, to confirm that you can receive email there. We use this information to review your application, to issue the licenses or discount codes the program offers if it is approved, and to contact you about it.
Testimonials. When you share your experience with a Product, we collect the information you enter in the form, such as your words, your name, and your email address, together with your language and the IP address of the request. We use your email address only to match it against our license records, so that we can show whether you purchased a Product or received a complimentary license, and to contact you about your submission, including to tell you when it is published. We publish a submission only with the consent you give on the form. A published submission shows your words, the details you chose to display, and details of the submission such as the Product and whether you purchased it. Your email address and the license details you enter are never shown. You can ask us to remove a published submission at any time by writing to hello@parcse.com.
Internal notifications. When a new application or submission arrives or an order needs attention, our team is notified through internal messaging and email. These notifications can include your name and email address.

Purchase Information

When you buy a Product, a membership, or a subscription on our Website, Stripe sells it to you as merchant of record through its Managed Payments service, which appears at checkout as Link. Stripe collects your payment details and billing information, calculates and collects tax, sends your receipts, and handles payment support under its own terms and privacy policy. Parcse receives your name, email address, what you bought, the amount paid, and order references, and we use them to issue and deliver your license. We retain the email address and name alongside the issued license record so that we can resend license information, assist with recovery, and satisfy tax and accounting obligations. We do not receive or store your full payment card information.

Memberships and subscriptions. If you subscribe to a membership or a subscription plan, we also store its status, its renewal date, and the licenses issued under it, and we email you your license keys. A membership can also bring emails about it, such as a welcome message or news of a Product joining it, and you can unsubscribe from that news as from any product announcement.
Shopping cart. If you enter your email address in the shopping cart, we pass it to Stripe so that the checkout page is filled in for you. If you start a checkout but do not complete it, we may send one reminder email to that address with a link that restores your cart and a discount code. We send at most one reminder for each Product, and we keep a record of the email address and the offer so that the same offer is not sent again. Unsubscribing from product announcements also stops these reminders.
Product announcements. We may email you about new Products and other news from Parcse at the address you purchased with. Every such email has a link to unsubscribe, and unsubscribing takes effect right away. We keep a record of the addresses that unsubscribe, so that they receive no more of these emails, and of the announcements sent to each address, so that none is sent twice. Unsubscribing does not stop emails about your licenses and purchases.
Other stores. If you buy a Product through another store that sells Parcse license keys, that store is the seller and sends you your license key. When you first activate that key, Parcse receives your email address, your name if you gave one, and the order details from that store, and stores them with your license record. If you get a Product through a store that handles its own licensing, that store handles the purchase and Parcse does not receive your name or email address from it.

License Manager

The License Manager lets you manage the licenses issued to your email address. You sign in with a link sent to that email address, and signing in sets a cookie that keeps you signed in for a limited time. In the License Manager you can view and manage your licenses, devices, and receipts. We keep a record of the actions you take there.

Website Data

When you visit our Website, our hosting infrastructure and the third parties whose content your browser loads receive standard technical data such as your IP address, user agent, referrer, and request time. Our hosting provider keeps request logs for a short period.

We use analytics to understand how the Website is used. We record page views and interactions such as button clicks, downloads, and scroll depth.

Our own analytics record your approximate country and do not store your IP address.
Website events are also sent to our product analytics provider through our own servers, which remove your IP address before forwarding them. These events do not contain your email address, name, or license key, and this provider sets no cookies on our Website.
A third-party web analytics service uses cookies on our Website to recognize returning visitors, and records the pages you visit, the links and downloads you click, and your approximate location.
Our Website includes content from third parties, such as analytics scripts and badges. When your browser loads this content, those third parties receive the standard technical data described above.
Our Website sets a cookie to remember your language when you choose one. The shopping cart keeps your cart, and the email address you enter in it, in your browser's storage for a limited time, and completing a purchase clears them.
Websites you open through external links follow their own privacy practices.

We do not sell, share, or rent information collected through analytics, and we do not run advertising or track you across other websites. You can delete cookies and browser storage in your browser settings at any time.

Product Data

Our Products process files and content locally on your device. Files are accessed only as required for a Product's functionality, and neither the files nor their contents are transmitted to Parcse, except for the information described under Network Access below. Products do not require a user account, do not collect advertising identifiers, and are not used to build advertising profiles.

Network Access

Most of our Products work locally without a persistent network connection. A Product accesses the network in the following situations:

Remote resources. When a file references a remote resource (such as an image URL), the Product retrieves that resource directly from the third-party host for rendering. The request does not pass through Parcse servers.
License activation and verification. Products that require a license contact Parcse servers to activate the license and to verify it from time to time. These requests include your license key, a device identifier created by the Product, your device name and model, and the application version. Your device name and model appear in the Product's list of activated devices so that you can recognize and remove devices. We use this information to enforce the device limit of your plan, to prevent license abuse, to count active installations, and to provide early-access builds where your plan includes them. It is not used to build a profile of you as an individual user.
Purchase prompt. While a Product that requires a license is unlicensed, it requests current pricing from Parcse servers with its device identifier, which is used only to determine whether a time-limited offer applies. If you claim an offered discount, the Product sends the email address you enter, and we email you a single-use code and keep a record of the claim to prevent repeated claims.
Free trial. While a Product with a free trial is unlicensed, it checks its trial status with Parcse servers. These requests include the device identifier, your device name and model, and the application version. When a device first requests a trial, we create a trial record that also includes the IP address of the request, which is used only to prevent trial abuse.
Update checks. Products downloaded from the Website check Parcse servers for updates on the schedule you choose in their settings. These checks include the application version, and some Products also include the device identifier so that we can count active installations and provide early-access builds where your plan includes them. While a Product is unlicensed, it may check for and download updates automatically. Products from other stores receive updates through those stores.
Telemetry. Some Products send usage telemetry to our product analytics provider through our own servers, which remove your IP address before forwarding it. Telemetry records events such as when the Product is installed, updated, or opened, and steps in the trial, purchase, and license activation process, together with the application version and general device information such as Mac model, macOS version, language, and time zone. If you activate a license, telemetry can be associated with your license. Telemetry does not include the contents of your files or your settings or rules. Whether a Product sends telemetry, and whether it is on by default, depends on the Product and its edition. Where a Product sends telemetry, you can turn it off in its settings.
Beta program. If you join the beta of a Product from its Mac App Store edition, the Product sends the email address you enter and proof of your App Store purchase to Parcse servers, and we share the email address with Apple so that Apple can invite you to TestFlight.
Update checks in Upto. Upto contacts the update sources of the apps and command-line tools on your Mac, such as app update feeds, the App Store, Homebrew, GitHub and other code hosts, and developer websites, to check versions, read release notes, and download updates. For some downloads, it asks Apple to confirm that the download is notarized. These requests go directly to each source, not through Parcse servers, and identify the app, tool, or download involved. When Upto installs an update through Homebrew or another package manager, that tool connects to its own servers as it normally does. Icons for command-line tools load from Parcse servers, a public icon service, tool websites, and GitHub. Upto scans your apps, verifies downloads, and translates release notes on your Mac.
Upto Index. Upto uses Upto Index with an active license or during the free trial, and only while Use Index is on in Upto Settings > Index, which it is by default. Upto then shares with Upto Index on Parcse servers the bundle identifier, developer identifier, version, and build number of apps that their developer signed with a Developer ID, and whether each version is a release or a beta. Apps from the App Store, TestFlight, and Setapp are never shared. Upto also shares the names of command-line tools it finds in public catalogs, and which apps it cannot check for updates or find release notes for, with their Homebrew cask names, and to find update sources it sends the identifiers of the apps it shares. For the other Macs on your license, it also shares the update source and download address listed for a version, with the download's published signature or checksum and the beta channel it comes from, so those Macs can install it. The shared information includes nothing that identifies your Mac, and your license or trial appears only as a code that cannot be traced back to you. What a Mac on the trial shares is kept apart: it does not count toward the versions Upto Index shows, and it is deleted 30 days after the last report. To use Upto Index, Upto requests a short-lived pass from Parcse servers when it needs one, with your license key and device identifier, or during the trial with the device identifier alone. Apps you exclude, and apps and tools you ignore indefinitely, are not shared, and excluding an app removes what your Mac shared about it. Settings > Index shows which apps your Mac has shared, and turning off Use Index stops both sharing and looking up versions.
Discover in Upto. Upto's Discover page loads its catalog of apps, with their icons and artwork, from the web. When Discover shows a sponsored app, Upto reports the showing to the placement's source, sending the placement, the date, and the Upto version, at most once a day for each placement. Opening a sponsored app goes through the placement's click address so that the source can count the click. Nothing about you or the apps on your Mac is shared with sponsors.
Other stores. Some stores provide their own licensing and update service, which may report your use of the Product to that store under the store's privacy policy. Editions that use such a service do not contact Parcse servers for licensing or updates.

To protect our services from abuse, we keep the IP address of requests to our licensing and checkout services for a short time and then delete it.

We do not sell, share, or rent information collected through these network interactions.

Sub-Processors

We use a limited number of third-party service providers to operate the Website and deliver the Products. These sub-processors process personal information only on our behalf and under contractual terms appropriate to their role.

Cloudflare, Inc.: website hosting, content delivery, data storage, and first-party analytics.
Stripe, Inc. and its affiliates: checkout, payments, and tax handling for purchases and subscriptions on our Website, as merchant of record.
Apple Inc.: notarization of our apps and delivery of TestFlight beta invitations.
Fastmail Pty Ltd.: email hosting for our parcse.com mailboxes.
Plus Five Five, Inc. (Resend): delivery of transactional email, such as license keys, sign-in links, and discount codes, and of product announcements.
PostHog Inc.: product analytics for the Website and the Products.
Datasee: web analytics for the Website.
Discord Inc.: internal notifications to our team.

International Data Transfers

Parcse is established in the United States, and our sub-processors primarily operate from the United States and other jurisdictions. When you use the Website or a Product, your information may be transferred to and processed in the United States. Where required by applicable law, we rely on appropriate safeguards for such transfers, including Standard Contractual Clauses or equivalent mechanisms offered by our sub-processors.

Data Security

We apply technical and organizational measures appropriate to the sensitivity of the information we handle. These include encryption in transit for all Website and Product network connections, restricted administrative access to production systems, and storing license keys in hashed or encrypted form rather than as plain text. No security measure is perfect, and you acknowledge that no system can guarantee absolute security.

Retention and Deletion

Parcse does not maintain password-based user accounts, uploaded files, or server-side user content from our Products. The License Manager signs you in with a link sent to the email address on your license records. Specific retention practices are as follows:

Purchase records. Retained for as long as the related license record exists, and for at least seven (7) years to meet tax, accounting, and legal obligations.
License records. Retained for as long as the license exists and afterwards for recordkeeping, including after a license is revoked or refunded. Deactivated devices are marked inactive and remain associated with the license for recordkeeping.
Trial records. Retained indefinitely so that the same device cannot receive repeated trials. The IP address stored with a trial record is kept only to investigate trial abuse.
Upto Index. Shared versions are stored under the license pseudonym and deleted after a limited period once Macs stop sharing them or newer versions replace them. Excluding an app in Upto removes what your license has shared about it from Upto Index. Upto Index also records the network provider each version was shared from, kept apart from the shared information, to protect the results from abuse.
Applications. Applications to our programs are retained as a record of our review and of any license or discount code issued.
Testimonials. Retained while under review or published. When a submission is declined or removed, we keep the record, including your consent and its withdrawal, for as long as reasonably necessary to document them, and delete it sooner if you ask.
Analytics events. Events in our own analytics are retained for a limited period, after which only aggregated totals without identifiers are kept. Events held by our analytics providers are retained until we delete them.
Email correspondence. Retained for as long as reasonably necessary to respond, follow up, and maintain related business records.
Email preferences. The record of each address that unsubscribed, and of the announcements sent to each address, is retained for as long as we send these emails, so that an unsubscribe keeps being honored.
Local data. Caches, activity logs, and other data that a Product creates exist only on your device. Some Products let you clear specific caches in their settings, and some remove cached data automatically after a set period. Deleting a Product and its folders in your Library folder removes this data. Some Products can change files or settings outside their own folders to support a feature you use, such as adding entries to the configuration files of coding tools you use, or turning on Touch ID for administrator commands in your Mac's local sudo configuration.

Your Rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the following rights with respect to the personal information we hold about you:

Access a copy of the personal information we hold about you.
Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information.
Request deletion of your information, subject to our legal retention obligations.
Request that we restrict our processing of your information.
Request a machine-readable export of information you provided to us.
Object to processing based on our legitimate interests.
Opt out of "sale" or "sharing" of personal information. We do not sell or share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.
Lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.

You can view and manage your licenses, devices, and receipts yourself in the License Manager. You can unsubscribe from product announcements and cart reminders with the link in any of them. To exercise any of the rights above, contact hello@parcse.com.

Legal Bases

Where applicable law requires a legal basis for processing, Parcse relies on the following:

Performance of a contract: to process purchases, issue and verify licenses, and provide the Products, online services, and License Manager features you buy or use.
Steps taken at your request before entering into a contract: to review the applications you submit to our programs.
Your consent: when you choose to contact us or submit content for publication, such as a testimonial.
Our legitimate interests: to respond to you, secure and operate our Website, Products, and business, prevent abuse, measure how the Website and Products are used, and send product announcements, cart reminders, and discount offers. You can stop these emails at any time by unsubscribing.

Third-Party Components

Our Products do not embed third-party advertising components. Products that send telemetry include a component from our product analytics provider. Editions from some stores include that store's licensing and update component. Products downloaded from the Website use an update component that communicates only with Parcse servers. If you choose to work with content that references a third-party resource, or if our Website requests a third-party asset to render a page, your interaction with that resource is governed by the applicable third party's terms and privacy practices.

Children's Privacy

Our Products and Website are not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13 (or the minimum age required by applicable law in your jurisdiction, whichever is higher). If you believe we have inadvertently collected such information, please contact us at hello@parcse.com and we will promptly delete it.

Changes

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make material changes, we will post the updated Privacy Policy at this URL and update the date below.

Last updated: November 8, 2026