Privacy Policy
Last updated: November 15, 2026
This policy explains what information ShieldTab collects, why, and what we do with it. We collect as little as we need to run the service.
What we collect
- Account: your email address and the date you signed up.
- Password: we never receive your real password. The app sends a scrambled version (a one-way hash), and we store an additional hash of that.
- Device ID: a random-looking code made from your PC's Windows ID. We use it to limit free trials per PC and to keep one account on one PC at a time. It does not include your name or files.
- Plan and payments: your plan, its end date, the coupons you used, and payment records from NOWPayments (amount, currency, status and payment ID). We do not receive card or bank details.
- Referrals: who invited whom, so both people can receive bonus days.
- Team sharing: the emails of the members you add, and an activity log of when members open or close the profiles you share with them.
- Security logs: login and admin activity, including IP addresses for failed admin logins, to stop abuse.
End-to-end encrypted data
Cloud Sync data — your profiles, their names, cookies, proxies and proxy passwords — is encrypted on your PC with a key made from your password before it is uploaded. We store only the encrypted data, its size and timestamps. We cannot read it, and nobody at ShieldTab can see your cookies or logins. Profiles you share with team members are encrypted with a key only you and that member have.
What stays on your PC
Your browsing history, the websites you visit, extensions and other browser data stay on your PC and are never sent to us. The IP check page in each profile is generated by the app on your PC; to find your IP and location the app contacts ip-api.com, or ipwho.is as a backup, through that profile's proxy.
How we use information
- To run your account, check your plan, and activate payments.
- To send emails with sign-up and password-reset codes.
- To prevent abuse of free trials, coupons and referrals.
- To answer your support requests.
We do not sell your information and we do not use it for advertising.
Services we use
- Cloudflare hosts our servers and database.
- Resend sends our emails.
- NOWPayments processes crypto payments.
- GitHub hosts the app's installer downloads.
Each of these only receives the information it needs to do its job.
How long we keep it
We keep account and payment records while your account exists, and payment records as long as the law requires. Email codes are deleted after a day. Synced data you delete in the app is removed from our servers. When you ask us to delete your account, we delete your account, keys and encrypted data, except payment records we must keep.
Your choices
You can ask for a copy of your account information, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete your account by emailing support@shieldtabapp.com from your account email.
Children
ShieldTab is not for anyone under 18, and we do not knowingly collect information from children.
Changes
If we change this policy we will update the date above, and tell you in the app for important changes.