Privacy

Who is responsible

Yauheni Padniuk, who publishes Hotseat as Appkin, is the controller of the data described here. The address is in the legal notice; the contact for anything on this page is hello@appkin.dev.

This site

• It sets no cookies.
• It loads no analytics, no ads and no scripts from other companies. Its fonts and pictures come from this site.
• It has no forms and no accounts, so there is nothing for you to enter.
• If you switch between the light and the dark theme, your choice is kept in your browser, on your device. It is not sent to us.

The site is served by Cloudflare. Like any host, Cloudflare handles the IP address and browser details of each request in order to deliver the page and protect the service. The basis is our legitimate interest in running the site.

The app

Hotseat has no account and no cloud, and it sends us no statistics and no reports. Your computers talk to each other over your local network. The security page says what crosses your network and what never leaves it.

The one thing the app asks the internet for is its own updates. It looks for a new version when it starts and once an hour, at an address served by Cloudflare, which handles the IP address of that request as it does for any download.

When you buy

Hotseat is sold by a reseller, which takes the payment and is responsible for the data of the purchase under its own privacy policy. We do not see your card details. The reseller passes us what we need to give you the licence and to keep our accounts: your email address, your country and the order. We keep it for as long as your licence is in use and for as long as tax law requires us to keep our accounts.

When you write to us

Mail to hello@appkin.dev is delivered through Cloudflare to a mailbox at Google. We keep your message and address for as long as it takes to answer and to follow up on the question. The basis is our legitimate interest in answering you.

Where the data goes

To the companies named above, and to our accountant where the law requires it. Cloudflare and Google may process data in the United States, with the safeguards EU law requires for that. We sell nothing and share nothing else.

Your rights

You can ask what is held about you, have it corrected or deleted, or object to its use: write to the address above. You may also complain to a data protection authority; in Poland that is the President of the Personal Data Protection Office (UODO). You do not have to give us any data to use Hotseat.

Last updated on 13 November 2026.