Effective April 24, 2026

Privacy Policy.

This Privacy Policy explains what personal data selfhost.tools collects, why we use it, how we protect it, and how you can exercise your privacy rights.

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We are GDPR compliant and collect only what we need to sell, provision, secure, and support managed hosting.

We are GDPR compliant and collect only what we need to sell, provision, secure, and support managed hosting.

Privacy overview

Clear purposes for the data we collect.

These are the main categories of data and rights covered by the selfhost.tools Privacy Policy.

Data we collect

We collect information you provide directly and operational records needed to keep your subscription connected to your managed app.

  • Email address
  • Billing records
  • Preferred URL
  • Support messages

How we use it

We use personal data to process payment, prepare your instance, send access details, manage your subscription, secure the service, and answer support requests.

  • Payment
  • Provisioning
  • Access details
  • Support

Your rights

Where applicable, you can ask to access, correct, delete, restrict, port, or object to processing of your personal data.

  • Access
  • Correction
  • Deletion
  • Objection

Privacy details

How we collect, use, share, and retain data.

Who we are

selfhost.tools provides managed hosting for open-source tools.

For account, checkout, support, and service-operation data, selfhost.tools is the controller. For customer content inside a managed app, selfhost.tools generally acts as a processor on behalf of the customer.

Controller data

Controller data includes account contact details, checkout records, subscription state, support messages, and records needed to provide the service.

Processor data

Processor data may include customer content stored inside a hosted app, such as workflows, configuration, logs, or records added by the customer.

Contact

Questions and privacy requests can be sent through the contact page or to [email protected].

Purposes and legal bases

We use data for specific service purposes.

We process personal data to sell subscriptions, provision managed apps, provide access, support customers, secure the service, prevent abuse, comply with legal obligations, and improve reliability.

Contract

We process checkout, subscription, and instance records to provide the managed hosting service you buy.

Legitimate interests

We process limited operational data to secure the service, prevent abuse, debug issues, and improve reliability.

Legal obligations and consent

We may process data to meet tax, accounting, legal, or compliance obligations, and where consent is required we will rely on consent.

Sharing and providers

We use service providers only where they help us run the service.

selfhost.tools may use providers for payments, authentication, hosting, DNS, storage, email, analytics, monitoring, and support. Providers receive only the information needed for their role.

Payments and auth

Payment and authentication providers process information needed to complete checkout, manage subscriptions, and secure account access.

Hosting and operations

Infrastructure, DNS, storage, CDN, queue, and monitoring providers help us provision and operate managed app instances.

Legal and safety

We may disclose information when required by law, to protect rights and safety, or to investigate abuse or security incidents.

Retention and rights

We keep data only as long as needed for the service and lawful purposes.

Retention periods depend on the data type, subscription status, support history, legal obligations, security needs, and whether deletion is technically and legally possible.

Account and billing

We keep account, checkout, and billing records as needed for active service, tax, accounting, dispute, and compliance purposes.

Instance data

Customer content in a managed instance is retained while the subscription is active and during any backup, recovery, or termination window described by support or the service terms.

Rights requests

We respond to privacy requests according to applicable law and may ask for information needed to verify the requester and locate relevant records.

Privacy questions

Your data rights and our handling.

The Privacy Policy explains what we collect, why we use it, which providers help us run the service, and how to exercise privacy rights.

GDPR compliant

No data sales

Rights requests supported

What personal data do you collect at checkout?

We collect the details needed to process payment, connect the subscription to a customer, provision the managed instance, and send access information.

Are you GDPR compliant?

Yes. We operate the service in line with GDPR requirements for the personal data we control and support applicable GDPR rights requests.

Do you sell personal data?

No. We do not sell personal data. We use providers only where needed to operate, secure, bill, support, and improve the service.

How do I exercise my privacy rights?

Contact [email protected] or use the contact form. Tell us what right you want to exercise and the email or account details needed to locate your records.

Where is customer content handled?

Customer content is handled in the managed app environment and by the infrastructure providers needed to operate that environment. We do not expose raw hosting credentials to customers.