Your music stays on your computer. PixelDJ goes online only to start your free trial and to check your subscription, and nothing about you is sold.
This website
pixeldj.com has no cookies and no ads, and nothing on it tracks you. Its fonts and pictures come from the site itself, not from other companies.
The site runs on Vercel. Like any company that runs websites, Vercel sees your internet address and which browser you use when it sends you a page, to deliver it and keep the site safe. PixelDJ doesn't use that to build a picture of you.
Your free trial
To start the trial, PixelDJ sends your email address to pixeldj.com, which emails you a code through Resend, an email service. The code works for 15 minutes.
So each email gets one trial, pixeldj.com keeps your email address with the day your trial started and ends, and once you subscribe, your plan and whether it's active, cancelled or waiting on a payment. That's kept with Upstash, a database service, and only PixelDJ's owner can see it, to run the trial and answer you about your subscription.
So each computer gets one trial too, pixeldj.com keeps your computer's id, explained under Your computers below, with a hash of the email that started a trial on it, for 400 days. A hash can't be turned back into the email. Another email can't start a second free trial on that computer meanwhile.
To stop anyone guessing codes or flooding the service, pixeldj.com counts requests for a short while, an hour at most, under hashes of the email address and internet address they came from.
Paying for PixelDJ
PixelDJ is sold through Lemon Squeezy, which takes the payment, handles any sales tax and sends your receipt. Lemon Squeezy has your name, email, billing country and payment details, under its own privacy policy. PixelDJ never sees or stores your card number.
Your subscription comes with a licence key, for up to three computers at once. When PixelDJ starts using it on a computer, it sends the key, your computer's name and its id, and Lemon Squeezy keeps each computer the key is on, by name and since when, so you can see and free up each one. PixelDJ then checks the subscription about once a day while it's online.
Bought from inside PixelDJ, your new licence key waits at pixeldj.com, under a one-time number PixelDJ made, until PixelDJ collects it. It's deleted after 30 days either way.
pixeldj.com also counts trials and sales each month, as plain numbers, to know how PixelDJ is doing, and how often a second free trial was asked for on one computer.
Your computers
A trial or subscription is for the computers it was given to, so a copy of PixelDJ's licence file doesn't work anywhere else. Here's how that works, and what it sends.
The first time it opens, PixelDJ asks Windows to make it a key on your computer, for your Windows account: a pair of numbers made at random for PixelDJ alone, not read from your hardware. Where the computer has a TPM, the security chip most Windows 11 computers have, the key is kept inside it. Otherwise Windows keeps it in its own key storage, for your account. Its private half can't be copied off the computer, by PixelDJ or anything else.
pixeldj.com receives:
- The key's public half, and its fingerprint, a SHA-256 hash, which is your computer's id at pixeldj.com. It identifies the key, not you or your hardware, and no other app or website sees it.
- A signature over a one-time number pixeldj.com sends, which shows your computer holds the key. The number works once, for five minutes.
- Your computer's name as Windows has it, like LAPTOP-4F2K, so you can tell your computers apart.
It never receives serial numbers, network card addresses, Windows' own device ids, your files, or anything about your music. Each trial or subscription pixeldj.com signs names your computer's id, and PixelDJ checks it against the key on the computer it's on.
What's kept, and for how long:
- For a subscription, which of its computers each id is, under a hash of the licence key, until you remove the computer.
- For a trial, the id with a hash of the email, for 400 days, as above.
- For PixelDJ's owner, the owner's own computers, until the owner removes them.
To see or change your computers:
- Remove from this computer, on PIXELDJ ACTIVE, takes the subscription off that computer, and frees its place.
- On a fourth computer, PixelDJ lists the three your subscription is on, and you can remove one from there, which helps when the old one is lost or broken.
- A new Windows account, Windows reinstalled, or a reset security chip makes a new key, so it's a new computer to PixelDJ. PixelDJ moves your subscription to the new key by itself when it can.
- To have your computers' records deleted, use the contact page. Deleting the one for a trial lets that computer start another.
The PixelDJ app
- Your songs play on your computer, and PixelDJ works out their beat and key there too. They're never uploaded.
- Your library, playlists, beats and settings are saved on your computer.
- Recordings are saved in your Music folder, in PixelDJ Recordings, and go nowhere else.
- Your trial or subscription is saved on your computer too, signed by pixeldj.com so it can't be changed, and for that computer alone, with your licence key sealed by Windows so only your user account can use it.
- PixelDJ only opens your microphone when you record, press M, or pick a mic in Party Check. Your voice only goes into your own recordings, and M mutes it.
- PixelDJ looks for Bluetooth speakers nearby only while you pair one, and keeps nothing about them.
The contact form
When the contact form is open and you send a message, your name if you give one, your email address, the topic and your message go by email to PixelDJ's support inbox, sent through Resend. They're used only to answer you. Ask, and they're deleted.
Keeping it safe
Everything the app and pixeldj.com send, to each other and to the services named here, goes over encrypted connections (HTTPS).
Children
PixelDJ doesn't knowingly collect anything from children.
Your choices
To ask what's held about you, or to have it deleted, use the contact page. If this page changes, the date at the top changes with it.