Privacy policy
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Who we are
This policy covers the Bytevane app for Windows and this website, both made by Bytevane (“we”). For anything about this policy, email bytevane@appzlr.com.
What Bytevane records, and where it stays
To show your speeds and usage, Bytevane keeps your settings, your daily usage history, your Data Guard alerts and its own log in files on your PC, inside the app’s own folder. They never leave your PC, and uninstalling Bytevane removes them.
Usage per app and per network comes from records Windows already keeps (the data behind Settings > Network & internet > Data usage). Bytevane reads them on your PC; it does not copy them anywhere else.
What we don’t collect
The Bytevane app has no account, no telemetry, no analytics, no advertising and no automatic crash reporting. There is no Bytevane server. We never learn which apps you use, which networks you join, or how much data you use.
The only connections Bytevane makes
Optional ping. Ping is off unless you turn it on. If you do, Bytevane pings 1.1.1.1 (Cloudflare’s public DNS) every few seconds. That host sees your IP address, as with any ping. Turn ping off and that connection stops.
Microsoft Store. To show the Pro price, make the purchase and check your license, Bytevane uses the Microsoft Store on your PC. Microsoft handles the payment under the Microsoft Privacy Statement. We never see your payment details; Microsoft gives us sales reports.
Changes Bytevane makes to Windows
Pro can block an app with a Windows Firewall rule and set speed limits with Windows policies. Each change asks for administrator approval through the standard Windows prompt, every time, and you can undo it in Bytevane.
This website
bytevane.tryappzlr.com uses Google Analytics only if you allow it. Until you choose Allow in the cookie banner, the Google Analytics script does not load, no cookie is set and nothing is sent to Google. Your choice is kept in your browser’s local storage, not in a cookie.
If you allow it, Google Analytics sets the cookies _ga and _ga_6MCVPD6ZW9 on this site, which last up to two years, and sends Google the pages you view, the page that linked you here, your browser, device and screen size, how far you scroll, which links to other sites you click (such as the Microsoft Store), and an approximate location worked out from your IP address. Google Analytics does not store the IP address itself. We use the reports to see how many people visit and which pages help them. This site does not turn on Google’s advertising features. Google processes the data under the Google Privacy Policy.
Google Analytics runs on this site only with your consent, which you can withdraw at any time: choose Cookie settings at the bottom of any page, then Decline. The site then deletes its Google Analytics cookies and stops sending data.
The site also uses Cloudflare Web Analytics, for every visitor, to count page views and measure how fast pages load. It sets no cookies, stores nothing on your device and does not track you across sites. Cloudflare processes this data under the Cloudflare Privacy Policy.
Fonts are served from the site itself. The site is hosted by Cloudflare, which processes request data such as your IP address to deliver and protect the site, under the Cloudflare Privacy Policy.
If you email us
We use your email address and message only to reply to you, keep them only as long as the conversation needs, and never share or sell them. Ask us at any time to delete them.
Your choices
Because we hold no data about how you use Bytevane, there is nothing on our side to access, correct or delete, apart from any email you sent us. If you allowed website analytics, the Google Analytics data is tied only to a random ID in your browser, which we cannot link to you. Choosing Decline in Cookie settings deletes that ID. The data on your PC is yours: uninstall Bytevane to remove it.
Bytevane does not knowingly collect personal data from children.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, we will update it here and change the date at the top. If Bytevane ever starts sending data anywhere new, this page will say so before it does.