Privacy
Privacy
Last updated 5 November 2026
This page covers jective.nz, buying a Jective plugin, and the plugins' licence files. The Eluate desktop app's voting has its own note. The short version: Jective keeps the least it can, never your IP address, and never sells or shares your details.
Who is responsible
Aidan McDonald, trading as Jective, in New Zealand, under the Privacy Act 2020 and, for people in the EU and UK, the GDPR. Contact: subconscious.nz@gmail.com.
When you buy
Paddle runs the checkout as merchant of record and is responsible, in its own right, for your payment details, billing address and receipt; Paddle's privacy policy covers that. Jective receives from Paddle the email address you gave, your name if you gave one, which products you bought, and Paddle's reference numbers for the transaction and for you as a Paddle customer. Jective keeps those to issue your licence, to send it again if you lose it, and to revoke it if the purchase is refunded.
The licence file
Your licence file carries your name (or your email address if Paddle had no name), the products it covers, the dates and a licence number, signed so a plugin can check it. It lives on your own computer, in a folder every Jective plugin shares; the plugins never send it, or anything else, anywhere. If you share the file you share your name with it.
Licence emails are sent through Resend, an email delivery service, which processes your address and the email on Jective's behalf. If you ask for your licence to be sent again, the address you type is checked against the licences on record and the answer is the same whether or not one exists.
Beta sign-ups and reports
If you sign up for a beta, Jective keeps your email address, the products you ticked, your country (worked out by Cloudflare from your connection) and the time, plus any setup details you choose to give. A beta report keeps your address, what you wrote and whether you agreed to be contacted about it. This is used to send you the beta and news about these products, because you asked, and for nothing else.
The website itself
The site sets no cookies and runs no analytics. Your browser's local storage remembers small things like whether you have already seen the sign-up prompt; that never leaves your browser. Forms are protected by Cloudflare Turnstile, which looks at your browser to tell people from bots. The site is hosted by Cloudflare, which may keep request logs, including IP addresses, for a short time for its own security; Jective does not store your IP address or browser details in anything it keeps.
How long, and your rights
Purchase and licence records are kept for as long as the licence is valid plus whatever time tax law requires Paddle and Jective to keep records of a sale. Beta details are kept until you ask to be removed or the beta ends. You can ask to see, correct or delete what Jective holds about you at any time by writing to subconscious.nz@gmail.com. Deleting a purchase record means the licence can no longer be re-sent or supported, so say if that is what you want. You can also complain to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner in New Zealand, or to your local data protection authority.