Privacy
Toplet is made to stay out of your business. There is no account, no analytics, no tracking and no crash reporting. Almost everything it does happens on your PC and stays there. This page lists every exception.
What stays on your PC
- Now Playing: the song, artist and artwork Windows reports. Never sent anywhere.
- The privacy dot: only that your microphone or camera is in use, and by which program. Toplet never sees or hears what they record.
- Stats: CPU, memory and network speed, read only while the Stats pane is open.
- Timers, settings and script messages. Script messages (the
notchcommand) travel only inside your PC; the hooks endpoint can't be reached from the network. - Claude usage: read from Claude Code's status line on your PC. Toplet sends nothing to Anthropic.
What Toplet sends, and why
Toplet connects to two addresses, both ours, run on Cloudflare:
| When | What is sent | Why |
|---|---|---|
| You activate a licence key | The key, a random install ID made by Toplet, and your PC's name | To check the key with Creem and register this PC (up to 3 per key). The PC name and the first 8 characters of the install ID label the PC in the list of activations, so you can tell your PCs apart. |
| Now and then after that, and when you deactivate | The key and the activation's ID | To confirm the key is still valid (for example, not refunded), or to free the PC's slot |
| Checking for updates (the direct download only) | Toplet's version and a number from 0 to 99 | To offer updates gradually. The number is worked out from the install ID, which itself is never sent. |
| Downloading an update | A normal file download | From downloads.windowsnotch.com |
The licence server is api.windowsnotch.com. It passes your key to Creem and keeps nothing itself: no database. Its logs record Creem's answer (for example "active, 2 of 3 PCs"), never your key. Like any website, Cloudflare sees the IP address a request comes from; we use it only to limit how often one address can ask.
The Microsoft Store version doesn't check for updates itself: the Store does that.
Buying
Purchases are handled by Creem, our merchant of record. Creem collects your name, email and payment details, takes care of tax, and emails your licence key. We see your email and order in Creem's dashboard, so we can help if you write to us. Creem's privacy policy covers what they do with your details.
This website
No cookies, no analytics, no trackers. Fonts are served from this site. If you turn sound off, your browser remembers that choice on your device and nowhere else.
Your choices
- Deactivate a PC any time in Settings, Licence. Its slot is freed at once.
- Uninstalling removes Toplet. The install ID and licence stay in Windows Credential Manager (under
Toplet/) so a reinstall keeps your licence; delete them there if you want them gone. - To ask what we hold about you, or to have it deleted, write to support@windowsnotch.com. We answer within 3 business days.
Changes
If Toplet ever starts sending something new, this page changes first, with a new date at the top.