Privacy Policy

Aikonic is the brand. The shipped product is Clarity; Control is a paid tier that is not yet on sale. This policy covers both, along with anything else released under the Aikonic name.

Every Aikonic app reads the hardware inside your machine and shows it to you. It runs locally. No account. No analytics. No telemetry. No remote logging. Nothing about your hardware readings, or how you use the app, ever leaves your computer. The one thing an app sends is a non-reversible token that activates its licence, described below. It carries no telemetry and no personal data.

This page has two parts: what the apps do with your data, and what the website records. Both are written to be checked against what the software actually does.

The apps

What stays on your machine

Everything. Clarity, and Control when it arrives, reads CPU, GPU, memory, storage, network, and process telemetry through Windows APIs and a bundled Windows service that wraps LibreHardwareMonitor and answers over a local named pipe. Both run on your machine; neither reaches the network. It keeps only what it needs, locally:

• The most recent snapshot, cached so the dashboard paints instantly on the next launch instead of waiting for the first live reading.
• A rotated, size-capped error log for post-mortem, it never leaves your disk.
• Your preferences (theme, layout, alert rules, polling cadence), stored in the app's own local data.

What the apps send

The apps send two things over the network, and both are narrow. There is no telemetry and no usage reporting behind either:

• Update checks. The app fetches a small version file from aikonic.app: automatically when it starts, about every six hours while it stays open, and immediately when you press Check for updates in Settings. It carries only the app's own version number, in its User-Agent. No other identifiers, no payload, nothing from your snapshots. Aikonic never downloads or installs an update on its own: it shows a banner, and only if you choose to update does it fetch the signed installer, verify it against a key built into the app, and run the install.
• Licence activation. Every Aikonic app, Clarity included, activates its licence: a token on first launch, then a short daily heartbeat. The token is a non-reversible install fingerprint, derived on your machine from stable hardware IDs that themselves never leave and cannot be recovered from it. The server keeps it only in a further-hashed form, uses it solely to validate your licence and count unique installs, and discards it after prolonged inactivity: no snapshot, no usage data, not tied to who you are.

What the apps never send

• No telemetry, not anonymised, not aggregated, not opt-in.
• No crash reports. The log stays on your disk; if you want to file a bug, an explicit Export builds a bundle that you choose to share. It carries your capability flags, the latest snapshot, and your preferences, never credentials, documents, browsing, or network traffic, and it stays on your machine until you send it.
• No usage analytics, no open counts, no session lengths, no feature-flag events.
• No behavioural identifiers, no machine name, no login, no advertising ID, no usage profile. The one identifier an app sends is the licence-activation token above, a non-reversible install fingerprint used only to validate your licence and count installs.
• No third-party SDKs, no ad networks, no fonts pulled from a CDN.

If this ever changes

Aikonic's network behaviour today is the two items above. If a future release ever adds anything else that touches the network, this page changes first, in the same release as the code, and the in-app privacy card changes with it. Found something that does not match? Treat it as a security issue: [email protected].

The website

The site asks you for nothing. There is no sign-up, no form, no account and no cookie. What it records is one row per completed installer download, so that downloads can be counted.

What it stores

• The date and time of the download.
• The installer filename, which carries the version number.
• The country the request came from, as a two-letter code.
• Whether the file was served from the edge cache.

No IP address, no browser identifier, no account. A row cannot be traced back to you.

Where it lives

In a Cloudflare D1 database. The site is served through Cloudflare Pages, so Cloudflare processes your IP address to deliver each request, as any host does. We do not store it.

How long it is kept

Twelve months. Rows older than that are deleted by the same code that records a new download. The record is never sold, shared, or handed to a third party.

The pre-launch waitlist

Before Clarity was released on 18 August 2026 the site offered a waitlist. It closed at release, its one promised email was sent, and its entries have been deleted.

Your rights

The site holds nothing that identifies you, so there is nothing we could look up or erase for you. If you believe otherwise, email [email protected] and we will check. Under the GDPR and UK GDPR you have the rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, and objection, all exercised through that address.

Cookies

The site sets no cookies of its own. Cloudflare may set a short-lived security cookie if it challenges a request; it is not used for tracking.

Who is responsible

Hancock Technologies, Switzerland, is the data controller for this site. See the contact page for details.