KeyRoutines privacy policy

KeyRoutines is a Windows app made by QaemDev. This policy covers the app and this website, keyroutines.com. The short version: your routines stay on your PC, KeyRoutines never records what you type, and the little it sends is listed below.

What stays on your PC

• Your routines, settings, run history and templates are stored only on your PC, in the app's own data folder.
• Secrets you save in a routine, such as a webhook address or a token, are encrypted with Windows (DPAPI) and never leave your PC.
• Crash reports and diagnostics stay on your PC. “Export diagnostics” writes a file only when you ask for it, and you decide whether to share it.
• Uninstalling KeyRoutines deletes its data folder. Export any routines you want to keep first.

What KeyRoutines never sends

KeyRoutines doesn't send your routines, their names or steps, file paths, keystrokes, window titles, clipboard contents or screenshots anywhere. Keyboard and mouse hooks are used only to notice the hotkeys you set; keystrokes are never recorded, stored or sent. There is no usage tracking or advertising in the app.

What KeyRoutines sends, and why

• Updates. KeyRoutines asks the Microsoft Store whether an update is available, while automatic update checks are on in Settings ▸ Updates. Windows and the Microsoft Store handle this under Microsoft's privacy statement.
• Messages from us. About a minute after it starts, and then every 30 minutes, KeyRoutines asks qaemdev.com for messages meant for its version, such as a known problem or a new release. The request carries only the app version and whether it's Free or Pro. It has no install id and no routine data, and the site keeps nothing about it.
• Pro licence. Only if you enter a Pro licence key, KeyRoutines checks it with Polar, our payment and licence provider (api.polar.sh): when you activate it, and then at most once every 7 days. It sends the key, a one-way hash that identifies this PC without revealing anything about it, and the PC's name, so you can see which PCs use your key. Polar's own privacy policy covers what Polar keeps.
• The Library. When you browse or install a routine from the KeyRoutines Library in the app, KeyRoutines downloads it from qaemdev.com. It doesn't send your own routines unless you choose to share one.
• Your routines' own steps. Steps you add that use the network, such as HTTP requests, webhooks, OBS, Discord or Home Assistant, send what you set up, to the address you chose, when the routine runs. They never send anything to us.

Create with AI

Create with AI is copy and paste only. KeyRoutines writes a prompt, you paste it into the AI chat you choose, and you paste the answer back. KeyRoutines never calls an AI service itself and sends nothing to one. What you type into that chat is covered by that service's own privacy policy.

The local API

KeyRoutines can let programs on your PC, such as the Stream Deck plugin, list and run your routines through a local API. It's off until you turn it on in Settings ▸ Advanced, it listens only on your own PC, and each program has to be paired by you first.

This website

• keyroutines.com uses no analytics, advertising or tracking cookies.
• You only need an account to share routines in the Library. An account keeps your name, email address and a scrambled form of your password, and is shared with qaemdev.com. Sign-in uses one cookie that keeps you signed in. Account emails, such as sign-in codes, are sent through Resend.
• Routines you share, with their pictures and notes, are public once a moderator approves them. You can remove them at any time.
• Buying Pro happens on Polar's checkout. Polar handles your payment details; we receive your email address and order, to send and support your licence key.

Children

KeyRoutines and this website are not directed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect their information.

Your choices

You can turn off automatic update checks, leave the local API off, use KeyRoutines without a licence key or an account, and ask us to delete your keyroutines.com account and what you shared.

Changes

If KeyRoutines starts sending anything new, this page is updated first, and the change is mentioned in the app's release notes.

Contact

Questions about privacy go to requostore@gmail.com, or through the support page.