Privacy Policy

Effective 9 October 2026

Optime keeps almost everything on your own laptop. Only two things leave it: your license check, and, in AI mode, the names and usage figures of background programs Optime needs to judge.

This policy explains what Optime collects, where it goes, and the choices you have. It applies to the Optime app for Windows 10 and Windows 11, made by Srikanth Ambidi (“we”, “us”). Optime isn't available for Mac.

What stays on your laptop

Most of what Optime knows is stored only on your laptop and is never sent to us:

• Activity history: what Optime ended, kept or restored, with the reason, plus hourly health snapshots and which apps you used when. Saved in your reports folder (by default Documents → Optime Reports).
• Daily health reports: saved as text files in the same folder.
• Your decisions and settings: your choices in the Review tab, feature on/off settings, and the phone hotspot name you enter. While running, Optime also checks the names of Wi-Fi networks you're on, nearby or joined before, and whether Windows reports working internet, only to choose which Wi-Fi to connect to. It never saves or sends these.

History older than 30 days is deleted automatically. You can open, move or delete these files at any time.

Your purchase and license

Purchases are handled by Dodo Payments, our reseller and payment provider (the Merchant of Record). When you buy Optime, Dodo Payments collects your name, email address, billing country and payment details under its own privacy policy. We receive your name, email address and order details from Dodo Payments, but never your card details.

To check your license, Optime sends Dodo Payments:

• your license key, and
• a device code: a short code made from your laptop's hardware identifiers, scrambled so the identifiers themselves can't be read from it. It lets your license count how many laptops use it.

This happens when you activate Optime and each time it starts.

AI mode

In AI mode, Optime asks an AI service to judge background programs, services and startup apps it hasn't seen before. For each question it sends:

• the names of those programs, services or startup apps,
• how much memory, processor and disk they use, and
• the name of the app you're using at that moment.

It never sends your files, documents, messages, passwords or browsing.

These questions go to our own server, hosted by Cloudflare. The server also receives your license key and your laptop's activation code, only to confirm your license with Dodo Payments. It then passes the question to Google's Gemini API and sends the answer back to Optime.

• We don't store your questions. Our server passes them on and keeps no copy. Cloudflare keeps short-lived technical logs of requests, such as their time and web address.
• Google processes each question under its terms for paid Gemini API use. Under those terms, it doesn't use the content to improve its products.

Optime remembers each answer on your laptop for 30 days, so the same thing isn't asked about again. Without an internet connection or an active subscription, AI mode is off and nothing is sent.

What we never do

• We never sell or rent your information, and never share it for advertising.
• Optime has no ads, no tracking and no usage analytics.
• Optime never reads your files, documents, photos, emails, messages or browsing.
• We share information only with the services named in this policy (Dodo Payments, Cloudflare and Google), and only to run Optime, or when the law requires it.

Your choices and rights

• Your laptop's data: open, move or delete the Optime Reports folder at any time. Uninstalling Optime doesn't delete it, so delete it yourself if you wish.
• Features: turn any feature on or off in the Dashboard's Features & Wi-Fi tab.
• Your license: click Deactivate this device in the License & Reports tab to remove this laptop from your license.
• Your purchase details: email us to ask what we hold about you, or to correct or delete it. Some purchase records must be kept by law, for example for tax. Dodo Payments also handles requests about the data it holds.

We reply to requests within 30 days.

Children

Optime is not meant for children under 18 to buy. We don't knowingly collect information from children.

Changes to this policy

If we change this policy, we'll update the date at the top. For important changes, we'll also tell you by email or in the app.

Contact

Questions or requests about your privacy: ambidisrikanth@gmail.com