Privacy Policy
The short version. August 365 Toolkit runs on your PC and talks only to Microsoft, in your own tenant. It has no telemetry and does not phone home. We never see your tenant data. The one exception is an optional, off-by-default error report that you can preview before it is sent.
This policy covers outsidecontextsoftware.com (“the website”) and the August 365 Toolkit desktop app (“the Software”), provided by Outside Context Software LLC, a Texas limited liability company (“we”, “us”).
1. The website
- We do not use cookies or advertising on this website.
- We use Cloudflare Web Analytics, a privacy-focused service that counts page views and visits and measures page speed. It does not use cookies or local storage, does not track you across sites, and does not build a profile of you. It reports to us only in aggregate, such as which pages were viewed, the referring site, your country, and your browser and device type. We use it to see how the website is used and to keep it fast.
- The website is served by Cloudflare, which processes each request (such as your IP address and browser details) to deliver the pages and protect the service, and may keep standard server logs. See Cloudflare’s privacy policy for how it handles that data.
2. Email you send us
Mail sent to our addresses is forwarded through Cloudflare Email Routing to a mailbox we read. We use what you send, such as your address and your message, only to reply and to support you. We do not sell it or use it for marketing.
3. The Software
The Software is a desktop app. It runs on your PC, not on our servers.
- Your tenant data stays with you. The Software calls Microsoft Graph and Exchange Online directly from your PC, using an app registration in your own tenant. We do not receive, store or have access to your tenant data.
- Your credentials stay on your PC. The app’s client secret is encrypted for your Windows user on that PC. If you use a certificate instead, its private key stays in your Windows certificate store and cannot be exported.
- Logs are local. The Software keeps an audit log of the changes it makes and an error log, on your PC or in a folder you choose, such as a team folder. You control that folder and its retention.
- No telemetry. The Software does not send usage statistics, and does not phone home.
If a future version contacts us for any reason, for example to validate a license key, this page will say so before that version ships.
4. Optional error reports
You can turn on Send error reports automatically in the Software’s settings. It is off by default. When it is on, each error is sent to a service we run in Microsoft Azure (United States). A report contains the Error ID, the tile, the kind of error, and the app and Windows versions. It does not contain your tenant ID, names, email addresses, or your activity log, and passwords, tokens and secrets are removed on your PC first. Preview what is sent shows the exact content before anything leaves your PC. We use reports only to find and fix problems, and keep them only as long as that takes. You can turn the setting off at any time.
5. Support bundles
The Software can export a support bundle, a zip of recent logs and version details, which you save and send to us yourself if you choose. You can replace email addresses with codes before exporting. We use a bundle only to help you with that problem.
6. Purchases
Purchases are handled by our payment platform, Gumroad. We receive the order details Gumroad shares with us, such as your name, email address and what you bought, and we do not see your card details. Gumroad’s privacy policy governs what it collects.
7. Who we share data with
We do not sell personal information. We use the service providers named above (Cloudflare, Gumroad and Microsoft Azure) to run the website, handle purchases and receive optional error reports, and we may disclose information where the law requires it.
8. Your choices
You can ask us what we hold about you, or to correct or delete it, by emailing support@outsidecontextsoftware.com. For an error report, include its Error ID. Information on your own PC, including logs and settings, is yours to keep or delete at any time.
9. Children
The website and the Software are for business use by IT administrators and are not directed at children.
10. Changes
If we change this policy we will update the date above. Material changes for the Software will be described before the version that introduces them ships.
11. Contact
Outside Context Software LLC, Texas, USA. support@outsidecontextsoftware.com