Privacy

What we know about you.

Short version: an email address if you asked for one message, and a machine fingerprint if you activated a licence. Nothing else, and nothing sold to anyone.

LAST UPDATED — 10 AUGUST 2026 · GDPR (EU) 2016/679 · LOPDGDD 3/2018

Who is responsible

Desteba Productions S.L., a company registered in Spain, is the data controller for everything described here. For any question about this notice, or to exercise any of the rights below, write to info@desteba.com.

What we collect

If you join the mailing list

Your email address, and the date you submitted it. That is the whole record.

If you buy or activate a licence

  • Your licence key and the email address tied to it
  • A hardware identifier — a one-way fingerprint derived from your machine. It cannot be reversed into a serial number and it does not identify you personally, but it is treated as personal data because it is tied to your licence
  • Activation and deactivation events, so a licence can be moved between machines
  • If you register a release master: the release title and a derived identifier, so re-exporting the same release does not charge twice

Payment

We never see or store your card. Payments are handled by our reseller, who acts as merchant of record and is the controller for the payment data it collects.

The application itself

The software does not phone home, does not track usage, and contains no analytics. It contacts our server only when you activate, deactivate or register a release — never while you work.

Why, and on what basis

DataPurposeLegal basis
Email on the mailing listSend one launch messageConsent (Art. 6(1)(a))
Licence key, email, hardware IDDeliver and verify the licence you boughtContract (Art. 6(1)(b))
Activation eventsPrevent one licence running on unlimited machinesLegitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f))
InvoicesMeet Spanish accounting and tax obligationsLegal obligation (Art. 6(1)(c))

Who else sees it

Three companies process data on our behalf, each for one clearly defined task:

  • FastSpring (United States) — handles the purchase as merchant of record, issues the invoice and deals with sales tax. As a US company it is the one processor outside the European Economic Area; transfers are covered by the Standard Contractual Clauses adopted by the European Commission.
  • IONOS SE (Germany) — hosts this website and delivers our email. Data stays within the EU.
  • Hetzner Online GmbH (Germany) — runs the licence server. Data stays within the EU.

Beyond those three, only the tax authorities, and only where the law requires it. Nobody else. We do not sell personal data, we do not share it with advertisers, and there is no advertising or tracking script anywhere on this site.

How long we keep it

  • Mailing list — until the launch message is sent, or until you unsubscribe, whichever is first
  • Licence records — for as long as the licence is valid, plus the statutory retention period
  • Invoices — six years, as Spanish commercial law requires

Your rights

Under the GDPR you can ask us to give you a copy of your data, correct it, delete it, restrict what we do with it, hand it over in a portable format, or object to processing based on legitimate interest. Where we rely on consent, you can withdraw it at any time without affecting what was lawful before.

Write to info@desteba.com. We answer within one month. If you are not satisfied, you can complain to the Spanish supervisory authority, the Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (aepd.es).

Deleting your licence record while a licence is active will deactivate it — we cannot verify a licence we have no record of.

Cookies

This site sets no cookies. None. There is no analytics, no advertising pixel, no social embed, no session tracking and therefore no consent banner, because there is nothing to consent to.

There are also no third-party requests. Fonts, styles and scripts are all served from this domain, so your browser never contacts another company while you read this page and no one else learns your IP address from your visit here. The only moment anything leaves this site is when you submit the signup form yourself.

Changes

If this notice changes materially, the date at the top changes with it, and anyone on the mailing list is told before the change takes effect.