Privacy, security, and data safety notes

Text Toolkit for Excel

We strive to protect the safety of your data. Below you will find detailed information on what data may be collected while you are using Text Toolkit for Excel, when your data may be collected, and for what purposes.

What data we collect

Personal data

When you buy a license for Text Toolkit, we collect the data you provide during the purchase: your contact information (your first and last name, company name, address, email address), VAT ID, and payment method. This information is collected and used for licensing purposes only.

Cookies

We do not use any cookies in Text Toolkit for Excel. However, if you use Excel on the web, you should know that Microsoft uses some cookies. For more information, refer to the Microsoft Privacy Statement.

Local log files

We collect log files only locally, on your computers. In the logs, we save only technical information that may help us provide you with customer support service or fix technical issues. We do not send these logs to any servers or services, but we may ask you to send your local logs to our Customer Support Service to help us reproduce or resolve your issue. This information may be requested from you for Customer Support Service purposes.

Communications

When you contact our Customer Support Service, we keep all your email and chat messages. This information is collected and used for Customer Support Service purposes.

Which Microsoft 365 permissions we request

To access a protected resource like your Excel file located in OneDrive, we need the resource owner's authorization. As a resource owner, you can consent to or deny our permissions request. You can revoke granted permissions at any time.

The permissions mechanism based on the Microsoft identity platform provides flexible and secured implementation of access to your data from our application while leaving you with full control.

We use requested permissions only for the following purposes:

  • Read and make changes to your document
    Text Toolkit for Excel can read your Excel documents and make changes to them.
  • Can send data over the internet
    Text Toolkit for Excel can send data over the Internet.

What about data in your workbooks

Text Toolkit is an Excel add-in, it processes your Excel workbooks locally, on your machine. We do not collect, store, or share your workbooks and/or data they contain.

What data others collect, but we don't

If you install and use a trial or beta version of Text Toolkit for Excel, we do not collect any personal information of yours.

Text Toolkit for Excel uses Microsoft's office.js API and therefore Microsoft Office telemetry is run together with it.

Who can access your data at our office

This clause refers to your personal data, i.e. all of personal data or personal information or personally identifiable information (as defined by applicable law).

We develop and test our products on specially created testing configurations, so access to your data is very limited and only a few people at our office have permissions.

Access to personal data is given to our customer support and sales specialists and only in case when you contact us with related questions.

How we control access to your data at our office

We make a lot of effort to keep your data safe. Firstly, we restrict physical access to our office and to our computers with door locking, access control systems, alarm systems, and surveillance facilities. Secondly, we restrict access to our systems by using central management of system access, no guest accounts policy, password and authentication policies.

Also, we control access to data with the help of differentiated access rights, access rights defined according to duties, and measures to prevent the use of automated data processing systems by unauthorized persons.

To prevent unauthorized access, data alteration, and disclosure, all our communication channels are encrypted using virtual private networks for remote access, transport, and communication of data. All our sub-networks are joined into a wholly-owned private network. Finally, all our computers are protected with antivirus software and firewall systems.

How to erase your data

To remove your local data, simply uninstall Text Toolkit for Excel and then remove local log files.

To have all your information (contact information, license information, communications) removed from our systems, please contact our Customer Support Service.

More information

You can find more information about privacy, security, and data safety in our Privacy Policy.

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