Privacy policy

Who we are

Coding Buddy is sold by Gustavo Cenci Peters Tecnologia da Informação Ltda, a company based in Brazil, which is responsible for the information described here. Contact: support@codingbuddy.io.

What we collect, and why

• When you visit this site. The site sets no cookies and runs no analytics or advertising trackers. Like any web server, ours receives your IP address and browser details in order to send you the page.
• When you subscribe. Checkout is run by Stripe. Stripe collects your email address, your payment details and your billing country. We never receive your card number. From Stripe we receive identifiers for the customer, the subscription and the checkout, and whether the subscription is active; we can see your email address and payment history in our Stripe account. We use this to give you a license key, bill you and answer you.
• When you activate and use the app. The app sends www.codingbuddy.io your license key and the name of your Mac when you activate it, and your license key about once a day after that, to check that the subscription is active. We keep the key, the Macs it is active on and the dates. The app also asks www.codingbuddy.io whether an update is available.
• When you write to us. We keep your message and email address to answer you.

What we never receive

Your code, your voice, your screenshots and your conversations with the tutor do not come to us. The app sends them from your Mac straight to the AI providers, using API keys that are yours. What leaves your Mac describes this in detail.

Who receives information

• Stripe, which processes payments and keeps billing records, under its own privacy policy.
• Railway, which hosts this site and the license service, in the United States.
• Anthropic and OpenAI receive what the app sends them from your Mac, under your own accounts with them and their terms. We are not a party to that exchange.
• Authorities, when the law requires it.

We do not sell personal information and do not share it for advertising.

How long we keep it

• License and subscription records: while the subscription is active and for as long afterwards as tax and accounting law requires.
• Billing records: kept by Stripe for the periods the law requires.
• Support messages: up to two years after the last message.

How it is protected

• All connections to www.codingbuddy.io use HTTPS.
• Card details are handled only by Stripe. Messages from Stripe to our service are accepted only after their signature is verified.
• The license service's logs record outcomes and counts, not license keys, device names or customer identifiers.
• Access to the database and to our Stripe account is limited to the people who run the service.
• On your Mac, your API keys and license are stored in files only your user account can read, or in the macOS Keychain.

Your rights

You can ask for a copy of the information we hold about you, ask us to correct or delete it, and object to how we use it. Depending on where you live, laws such as the GDPR, the UK GDPR, the LGPD or the CCPA give you these and other rights, including the right to complain to your data protection authority. Write to support@codingbuddy.io. Deleting your license record ends your access to the app.

Where the law asks for a legal basis: we process subscription and license information to perform our contract with you, billing records to meet legal obligations, and server information for our legitimate interest in running a secure service.

Transfers between countries

We are based in Brazil, and our providers operate in the United States and other countries. Your information is processed there, under the safeguards those providers offer for international transfers.

Children

Coding Buddy is not directed at children under 13, and you need to be old enough to enter a contract where you live, or have a parent or guardian subscribe for you.

Changes

When this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. If a change affects how we use information we already hold, we tell subscribers by email before it takes effect.