Privacy Policy

In this policy, “Advanced Mechanics”, “we”, “us”, and “our” refer to the developers and distributors of the Advanced Mechanics software, who act as the controller responsible for your personal data. “You” refers to any visitor to our website or purchaser or user of our software.

This policy covers personal data processed through this website (advanced-mechanics.com and related subdomains), our checkout, our licensing and authentication systems, and our official community channels. It does not cover third-party websites or services that we link to, which have their own privacy policies.

2.1 Information you provide to us

• Order and billing information collected at checkout through our payment platform, which may include your name, email address, country, and billing details.
• Account and community information if you join our Discord server or contact us there — for example your Discord username and user ID and the content of your messages.
• Support communications, including any information you choose to share when you ask for help.

2.2 Licence and authentication data

To deliver the software and protect it against piracy, our licensing system processes data associated with your licence, which may include your licence key, an account identifier, and a hardware or device identifier used to bind and validate your licence, together with the product and version you use.

2.3 Information collected automatically

• Technical data such as your IP address, browser type, device and operating-system information, and referring pages, collected in standard server logs by our hosting and content-delivery provider for security and reliability.
• Basic interaction data needed for the site to function, such as pages requested.

We do not run third-party advertising or analytics trackers on this website, and we do not build advertising profiles about you.

2.4 Data stored in your browser

Your shopping cart is stored locally in your own browser (using local storage) so that its contents persist between visits. This information stays on your device and is only transmitted to our payment platform when you proceed to checkout.

2.5 Payment card data

We do not collect or store your full payment card details. Card and payment data are handled directly by our payment platform and its integrated payment providers.

We use personal data to:

• Process your order, deliver your licence key, and provide access to the software.
• Operate our licensing and authentication system and prevent piracy, licence sharing, and abuse.
• Provide customer support and respond to your questions.
• Maintain the security, integrity, and reliability of our website and services, and detect and prevent fraud.
• Comply with our legal obligations, including tax, accounting, and record-keeping requirements.
• Notify you about important changes to our products, terms, or this policy where relevant to your purchase.

If you are located in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, we rely on the following legal bases under the GDPR / UK GDPR:

• Performance of a contract — to process your purchase, deliver the software, validate your licence, and provide support.
• Legitimate interests — to secure our website and software, prevent piracy and fraud, and run our business, provided these interests are not overridden by your rights.
• Legal obligation — to meet tax, accounting, and other statutory requirements.
• Consent — where we specifically ask for it; you may withdraw consent at any time without affecting processing already carried out.

Payments are processed securely through Sell.app and its integrated payment providers (which may include PayPal and other processors). When you check out, the information you enter is provided to and processed by these providers under their own privacy policies and security standards. We receive confirmation of your purchase and the order details needed to deliver your licence, but not your full card details.

We do not sell your personal data. We share it only with service providers who process it on our behalf to run our business, and only as needed. These include:

• Our payment platform and payment providers (for example Sell.app and PayPal), to process purchases and taxes.
• Discord, if you choose to join our server or contact us there, under Discord's own privacy policy.
• Our hosting and content-delivery provider, which serves the website and keeps standard security logs.
• Advisers, or authorities, where we are required to disclose information by law or to protect our legal rights.

Relevant third-party policies include Discord and PayPal. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party service you use in connection with us.

Our website relies on strictly necessary storage to function — for example the local storage used to remember your cart. Our checkout is provided by an embedded Sell.app component, which may set its own cookies that are necessary to complete a purchase.

We do not use advertising cookies or third-party analytics trackers. Most browsers let you control or clear cookies and local storage through their settings; blocking strictly necessary storage may prevent parts of the site, such as the cart or checkout, from working.

Some of our service providers may process your data in countries outside your own, including outside the EEA or the UK. Where that happens, we rely on those providers applying appropriate safeguards recognised under applicable law — such as the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses or an adequacy decision — to protect your data.

We keep personal data only for as long as necessary for the purposes described in this policy:

• Order and transaction records are kept for as long as required to meet legal, tax, and accounting obligations.
• Licence and authentication data is kept for the life of your licence and for a reasonable period afterwards to prevent abuse and resolve disputes.
• Support and community messages are kept for as long as needed to provide support and maintain our community.

When data is no longer needed, we delete it or anonymise it, unless a longer retention period is required by law.

Depending on where you live, you may have some or all of the following rights over your personal data:

• Access — request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
• Rectification — ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete data.
• Erasure — ask us to delete your data where there is no overriding legal reason to keep it.
• Restriction — ask us to limit how we use your data in certain circumstances.
• Portability — receive certain data in a portable, machine-readable format.
• Objection — object to processing based on our legitimate interests.
• Withdraw consent — where we rely on consent, withdraw it at any time.

To exercise any of these rights, contact us using the details in the “Contact us” section below. We may need to verify your identity before acting on a request. If you are in the EEA or UK and believe we have not handled your data properly, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection supervisory authority.

We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect personal data against loss, misuse, and unauthorised access, and we rely on reputable providers for payment processing, hosting, and licensing. However, no method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security. You are responsible for keeping your licence key and account credentials confidential.

Our website and software are not directed to children. We do not knowingly collect personal data from anyone under the age of 16 (or the minimum age required to consent to processing in your country). You must be of the age required to enter a binding contract in your jurisdiction to purchase our software. If you believe a child has provided us with personal data, please contact us and we will take appropriate steps to delete it.

Our website and communications may contain links to third-party sites and services, such as Discord and YouTube. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of those third parties. Their handling of your data is governed by their own privacy policies.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will revise the “Last updated” date at the top of this page. Material changes may also be announced through our official channels. We encourage you to review this page periodically. Continued use of our website or software after an update constitutes acceptance of the revised policy, to the extent permitted by law.

For any questions about this Privacy Policy or to exercise your data rights, contact us via Discord: https://discord.gg/advancedmechanics.