Privacy policy

Last updated 7 November 2026

NetSieve is run by PulpTech, Kavilakudiyil, East Kadathy, Market PO, Muvattupuzha, Kerala 686673, India. This explains what we collect, and what stays on your Mac.

What stays on your Mac

The sites your Mac looks up, which apps connect, and how much data moves are kept on your Mac for 7 days, and you can delete them at any time. We never receive this history. NetSieve never reads the contents of your traffic and installs no certificate to do so.

So sites can load, NetSieve sends allowed lookups, encrypted, to Cloudflare or Quad9, or to another DNS service you choose. Those services see the names being looked up, as a DNS service always does. The app also downloads block lists and, when set up, checks for updates, which shows your IP address to whoever hosts those files.

What we collect

• Launch sign-ups: if you asked us to tell you about the launch, your email address and when you asked.
• Account: your email address and sign-in details, held by Clerk. We store your Clerk user ID with your licence.
• Purchase: Paddle handles payment and your order details, and we never see your card. We store your transaction ID, plan and licence key.
• Licence activation: when you add or remove a key, and every few hours after that to check it hasn’t been refunded, the app sends the key and a one-way hash of your Mac’s hardware ID. Nothing else is sent.
• Licence email: we send your key through Resend, using the address from checkout, and don’t store that address ourselves.
• Website statistics: PostHog counts page visits, where visitors came from, video plays and downloads. We don’t use cookies or recordings for this, and don’t send it your email or IP address.
• Emails you send us: kept so we can reply.

Who processes it

• Cloudflare: hosts this site and our database, and handles mail to hello@netsieve.app.
• Paddle: our Merchant of Record, an independent controller of your order data.
• Clerk: accounts and sign-in. Clerk sets cookies needed to keep you signed in.
• Resend: sends licence email.
• PostHog (EU): website statistics.

We don’t sell your data. Some of these providers work outside your country, under their own safeguards.

How long we keep it

We keep your data for as long as your account is active. Launch sign-up emails are kept until we’ve told you about the launch, or until you ask us to remove them. You can ask us to delete it at any time by emailing us. We may need to keep purchase records for as long as tax rules require.

Your choices

You can ask for a copy of your data, or for it to be corrected or deleted, by emailing hello@netsieve.app. You may also be able to complain to your local data protection authority. NetSieve isn’t meant for children under 16.