Privacy policy

Last updated 1 October 2026

This policy explains what Ainola stores and who handles your data. Ainola is a macOS app sold through Lemon Squeezy. We keep data collection to the minimum needed to run a trial and validate a license, plus ad measurement on this website if you allow it.

Who we are

Ainola is made and operated by M STREET MUSIC, obrt za usluge, vl. Kristijan Sinković, Magistratska 21/1, 49000 Krapina, Croatia (OIB 24673676587). We are the data controller for the limited personal data described here. For any privacy question, write to [email protected].

What the app stores on your Mac

Ainola runs locally. It stores your trial start date, your settings, your tags and modes, and, after you buy, your license key and an activation identifier for the device. This information stays on your Mac.

License validation

To confirm an active license, Ainola contacts Lemon Squeezy and sends your license key and a device identifier. It does this on activation and periodically afterwards. No other personal data is sent.

Payments

Purchases are handled by Lemon Squeezy, which acts as the merchant of record and as our processor for orders and licensing. Your payment details are entered on their checkout and are never seen or stored by Ainola. Lemon Squeezy processes your name and email to complete the order and send your license key. You can read how they handle data in the Lemon Squeezy privacy policy.

International data transfers

Lemon Squeezy is a payments provider based in the United States, so completing a purchase involves transferring your order data outside the European Economic Area. These transfers are covered by appropriate safeguards, in particular the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses, as set out in the Lemon Squeezy data processing agreement. If you allow marketing cookies on this website, Meta may transfer data to the United States under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework.

This website and cookies

Fonts and all other files on ainola.app are self-hosted, so no third party receives your visit through them. On your first visit we ask which cookies you allow. Until you choose, and if you choose "Necessary only", nothing from Meta loads.

Necessary. We store your choice in your browser (ainola-consent, 12 months) so we do not ask on every visit. It is not shared with anyone.

Marketing, only with your consent. If you allow marketing cookies, we load the Meta pixel from Meta Platforms Ireland Limited. It tells us which ads bring people to Ainola and when someone downloads the trial or starts a checkout, and it lets us show Ainola again to people who have visited. Meta receives the pages you view, these events, your IP address and browser details, and sets the cookies _fbp and _fbc (on ainola.app, 90 days) and fr (on facebook.com, 90 days). For collecting and sending this data, we and Meta are joint controllers. Meta then processes it under the Meta privacy policy.

Checkout. If you allowed marketing cookies before you went to checkout, our server tells Meta when the purchase is completed: the order value and currency, the product, an order reference, your email and name in hashed form, and the Meta cookie identifiers. This shows us which ads lead to a sale. Without that consent, nothing about your purchase is sent to Meta.

You can change or withdraw your choice at any time with Cookie settings at the bottom of every page. When you withdraw, we remove the Meta cookies set on ainola.app. We do not make automated decisions about you.

No account

Ainola has no user accounts. You do not create a username or password to use the app.

Legal basis

We process this data to give you the app and your trial and to validate your license, which is performance of our contract with you, and to protect the app against licence abuse, which is our legitimate interest. If you allow marketing cookies, we use the Meta pixel on the basis of your consent, which you can withdraw at any time without affecting what happened before.

How long we keep your data

License and activation data is kept while your license is active, and order records for as long as the law requires afterwards. Data stored on your Mac stays until you delete the app and its data. Lemon Squeezy keeps order and payment records under its own policy. Your cookie choice is kept for 12 months, and the Meta cookies for up to 90 days.

Your rights

Under the GDPR you can ask us to:

• see the personal data we hold about you,
• correct data that is wrong or incomplete,
• delete your data, where the law allows,
• restrict or object to how we use it,
• receive your data in a portable form.

To exercise any of these, write to [email protected]. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Croatian Personal Data Protection Agency (AZOP, azop.hr).

Contact

Questions about privacy? Write to [email protected].