Privacy

Products of alwintroost.nl contain technology to connect to alwintroost.nl for updates or license validation. alwintroost.nl is commited to your privacy and does not collect any personal information.

On the web-site some personal information is collected for book-keeping reasons when purchasing a license, as stated in the section 'Purchases at alwintroost .nl'.

Below you'll find the topics regarding communications with www.alwintroost.nl, that may be of concern to you. If you have any questions regarding your privacy, then you can send your questions to support@alwintroost.nl.

Software updates

Most products contain features that allow you to check for updates from within the program. This can be manually or automatically.

The software does this, not by sending information to the site, but by retrieving the information about the latest version available. It will then, locally, check if your software is older then the newest available and offer an appropiate dialog.

Products that currently contain software update technology are: WeatherDock, Photo Desktop 2, Froq and Froq 2.

Online license validation

To fight piracy, some products may contain online license validation. As many man-hours have been put into creating the wonderfull products you are using, it is sad that there are people who don't respect that and use illegal methods to create their own license keys.

At alwintroost .nl, we think that as a paying customer, you won't mind this validation, as it prevents others to enjoy the same applications for free while you paid for it.

Online license validation works by sending your license-key to alwintroost.nl, no additional or personal information will be sent. After sending the license-key to alwintroost.nl, the application will receive an answer from server that indicates whether the license was purchased at alwintroost .nl or not.

If the application determines the license wasn't purchased at alwintroost .nl it will disable in the application, at that point no additional information will be sent to alwintroost .nl . If your license could be validated online (which will be the case if you purchages your license at alwintroost .nl) you will be presented with a one time only dialog, notifying you that the validation succeeded.

Products that currently contain online license validation technology are: Froq 2.

Purchases at alwintroost .nl

To allow for license generation, retrieval when lost, online validation and book-keeping, your name, company, e-mail, country and licensing information is stored by alwintroost .nl. This information is never shared with others.

Payments are handled securely at PayPal.com, alwintroost .nl does not obtain any personal or financial information from you, as this is all handled by PayPal.

alwintroost .nl does receive payment results and transaction numbers from Paypal, and stores this together with the information mentioned in the previous paragraph for the same said reasons.