Effective Date: February 14, 2026

Last Updated: November 6, 2026

This page also exists in French (version française). In France, the French version prevails.

Changes on November 6, 2026: We no longer record whether you open our emails or which links you click in them (6.5). The transfer of your contact record to Encharge, in the United States, now relies on the European Commission's standard contractual clauses, which are part of the data processing agreement we signed with Encharge that day; Section 10 also says where Encharge stores your record and how it sends our emails (6.5 and 10). Nothing else changes in what we collect or how we use it.

Changes on November 5, 2026: Meta now receives nothing from us, from your browser or from our server, unless you accept our cookie banner (3.2, 4, 5, 6.4, 8.3 and 8.4); the email box on the downloads page is optional (6.5); the affiliate and ad-click references kept in your browser expire after 30 days (8.5). This policy also gives our legal name, address and email (1), names the French supervisory authority (9.9), gives the legal period for keeping accounting records (7) and says what the transfer to Encharge relies on (10). A Cookie settings link at the bottom of every page now reopens our cookie banner, so that you can change your answer at any time (8.6 and 9.7). Each change gives you more control over your data; none takes anything away.

UB DSP ("we," "us," or "our") is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, share, and protect your personal data when you visit our website ubdsp.com (the "Website"), create an account, purchase our audio plugin products, or interact with our services.

This policy is designed to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EU Regulation 2016/679) and applicable French data protection laws, including the Loi Informatique et Libertés.

1. Data Controller

The data controller responsible for your personal data is:

As a sole proprietorship, Benoit Scarwell serves as both the data controller and the data protection point of contact. For any privacy-related inquiries, write to support@ubdsp.com or use our contact page.

2. What Data We Collect

2.1 Account Data

When you create an account on our Website, we collect:

2.2 Purchase Data

When you purchase a product, the following data is associated with your account:

2.3 License Data

2.4 Technical Data

3. What We Do NOT Collect

Transparency about what we do not collect is just as important. UB DSP does not collect:

3.1 Optional Plugin Telemetry (Opt-In)

Our audio plugins include an optional, opt-in telemetry feature that is disabled by default. If you choose to enable it, the plugin sends anonymous usage data (such as DAW name, OS version, session duration, and feature usage) to help us improve our products. This data cannot be linked to your personal identity. You can disable telemetry at any time from the plugin settings. Telemetry data is retained for 90 days (raw events) and aggregated monthly statistics are retained permanently in anonymized form.

3.2 Website Analytics and Marketing

We use Google Analytics 4 and Google Ads (both via Google Tag Manager), and the Meta Pixel together with Meta's Conversions API, to understand how visitors use our Website, to measure whether our advertising works, and — only if you accept advertising cookies — to show our ads again to people who have already visited our Website (Sections 6.3 and 8.3). Analytics and advertising cookies are only set if you explicitly accept them through our cookie consent banner. If you decline, no analytics or advertising cookies are stored on your device and you are not added to any advertising audience. Nothing is sent to Meta, from your browser or from our server (Section 8.4). Two things still happen, and Section 8 describes each in full: Google may receive a cookie-less signal used only for aggregate modelling (Section 8.2), and if you arrived through an affiliate link, one of our ads or a link carrying campaign labels, a reference to that link is kept in your browser for 30 days at most, so that a later purchase can be credited to it (Section 8.5). You can change your answer at any time with the Cookie settings link at the bottom of every page (Section 8.6).

4. Legal Basis for Processing (GDPR Article 6)

We process your personal data under the following legal bases:

Purpose Legal Basis GDPR Reference
Account creation and management Performance of a contract Article 6(1)(b)
License generation and delivery Performance of a contract Article 6(1)(b)
Transactional emails (welcome, purchase confirmation, sign-in links) Performance of a contract Article 6(1)(b)
Customer support Performance of a contract Article 6(1)(b)
Security and fraud prevention (IP logging, session management) Legitimate interest Article 6(1)(f)
Marketing emails to people who ticked the email box when downloading a free trial (tips, news and offers) Consent Article 6(1)(a)
Marketing emails to customers, about plugins similar to the ones they bought Legitimate interest Article 6(1)(f)
Analytics and advertising cookies, and the advertising audiences built from them (Google Analytics, Google Ads conversion tracking and remarketing, Meta Pixel) Consent Article 6(1)(a)
Conversion measurement (Meta Conversions API — page views, and hashed email at a purchase or a registration), only if you accepted the cookie banner Consent Article 6(1)(a)
Advertising attribution: the reference to the link that brought you here, kept in your browser and attached to your purchase (Google click id, affiliate referral code, campaign labels) Legitimate interest Article 6(1)(f)
Loading Google Sign-In when you open our sign-in dialog or sign-in page (your IP address, user-agent and the page address reach Google, which sets the g_state cookie) Performance of a contract (steps you ask for before creating or accessing your account) Article 6(1)(b)

Where we rely on legitimate interest, we have conducted a balancing test to ensure our interests do not override your rights and freedoms. You may object to processing based on legitimate interest at any time (see Section 9).

5. How We Use Your Data

We use the personal data we collect for the following purposes:

We do not carry out automated decision-making that produces legal effects concerning you, or that similarly significantly affects you (GDPR Article 22). We do group customers according to what they own and have purchased, so that we can decide which of our own emails are relevant to send you — for example, not offering you a plugin you already own (see Section 6.5). If you accept our cookie banner, we use hashed (irreversible) versions of your email address for ad conversion measurement via Meta, which helps us understand whether our advertising is effective (see Sections 6 and 8 for details). If you accept advertising cookies, the pages you visit here are also used to place you in a broad advertising audience held by Google — for example, people who read a plugin page without downloading the trial — so that we can show our ads to that group again. That is a grouping by pages visited, not an individual profile: we cannot see who is in it or single anyone out, we send Google no name and no email address, and we do not upload our customer or mailing lists to any advertising platform (see Sections 6.3 and 8.3). If you decline our consent banner, none of this happens.

6. Data Sharing

We share your personal data only with the following third parties, and only to the extent necessary to provide our Services:

6.1 Paddle.com (Payment Processing)

Paddle is the seller of our products (Merchant of Record): when you make a purchase, you buy from Paddle, which collects and processes your payment information directly. On our product pages, Paddle's checkout script is loaded from cdn.paddle.com only when you click the Buy button, not while you read the page; your account page, where signed-in customers can buy at their owner's price, loads it on arrival. From that moment Paddle, and Cloudflare, which delivers Paddle's files, receive your IP address and browser user-agent and may set their own cookies on paddle.com (for example Cloudflare's __cf_bm, a 30-minute bot-protection cookie). Paddle has its own privacy policy, which governs how they handle your payment data: Paddle Privacy Policy.

6.2 PlanetHoster (Hosting Provider)

Our Website and database are hosted on servers provided by PlanetHoster, located in France and Switzerland. PlanetHoster acts as a data processor on our behalf and stores the data described in this policy. Your data remains within the European Economic Area and Switzerland, ensuring full GDPR compliance without the need for additional transfer safeguards.

6.3 Google (Analytics, Ads and Sign-In)

We share data with Google for four distinct purposes:

See Google's Privacy Policy.

6.4 Meta (Facebook) — Advertising

We share data with Meta for advertising measurement purposes:

See Meta's Privacy Policy.

6.5 Encharge (Customer Relationship Management)

We use Encharge, operated by PXCH Holding I, LLC (Miami, Florida, United States), as our customer relationship management and email platform. Encharge acts as a data processor on our behalf, under a data processing agreement signed on November 6, 2026 (see Section 10).

We send Encharge your email address and first name, together with the following account activity, so that we can manage customer communications and send you only messages that are relevant to you:

Who gets our marketing emails. Customers, about plugins like the ones they bought, and people who ticked the email box on the downloads page. That box is optional: your trial downloads whether or not you tick it, and it is never ticked for you. Every marketing email has an unsubscribe link, and unsubscribing never stops your trial or affects a license. When you tick the box, we keep the date, the wording you agreed to and the page where you ticked it, as proof of your consent.

No open or click tracking. Since November 6, 2026, open and click tracking are switched off in Encharge: our emails no longer record whether you open them or which links you click. Encharge still records what it needs to deliver them, such as a delivery, a bounce, an unsubscribe or a spam complaint. Links to our website carry campaign labels (source encharge, the name of the email sequence and the email's subject), which tell us which email a visit or a purchase came from, as for any other labelled link (Section 8.5).

We deliberately do not send Encharge your IP address, and no plugin telemetry is ever linked to your contact record (see Section 3.1). See Encharge's Privacy Policy.

Because Encharge cannot delete a contact through the interface we use to send it data, erasure requests are carried out manually on your Encharge record whenever you delete your account (see Section 9.3).

6.6 No Selling of Data

We do not sell, rent, trade, or otherwise share your personal data with third parties for their marketing purposes. We will never monetize your data.

7. Data Retention

8. Cookies and Browser Storage

8.1 Essential Cookies

We use three strictly necessary cookies. The third one is only set if you open our sign-in dialog or sign-in page:

Cookie Name Purpose Type Duration
ubdsp_sid Maintains your login session Strictly necessary (essential) Session / until logout
ubdsp_consent Records whether you accepted or declined the cookie banner, so our server can honour that choice Strictly necessary (essential) 12 months
g_state Written by Google's sign-in script when you open our sign-in dialog or sign-in page (see Section 6.3). Google uses it to remember the state of its sign-in prompt in this browser. It is not set while you simply browse our pages. Strictly necessary for the sign-in you asked for 6 months

These cookies are essential for the functioning of user accounts and for respecting your cookie choice. ubdsp_sid and ubdsp_consent are ours: they do not track you, contain no personal data, and are not shared with any third party. g_state belongs to Google's sign-in script, which writes and reads it on our pages; it is only there because you opened our sign-in dialog or sign-in page. Under the GDPR and ePrivacy Directive, strictly necessary cookies do not require consent — recording a refusal is itself a strictly necessary operation.

8.2 Analytics Cookies (Opt-In)

We use Google Analytics 4 (via Google Tag Manager) to collect anonymous usage data such as pages visited, session duration, and general geographic region. These cookies are only set if you click "Accept" on our cookie consent banner.

If you decline or ignore the banner, no analytics or advertising cookies are stored on your device: Google Tag Manager is told through Google Consent Mode v2 that analytics storage, advertising storage, advertising user data and advertising personalisation are all denied, and that instruction stays in force until you change it (Section 8.6). In that state Google may still receive a cookie-less signal — your IP address, your browser user-agent and the address of the page — which it uses only to model aggregate statistics. Nothing is written to your device, so that signal cannot be used to recognise you on a later visit or across websites.

Our consent banner offers a single combined choice, so accepting it grants analytics and advertising consent together. The analytics data described here is then also used to build the Google advertising audiences described in Section 8.3; nothing extra is collected for that purpose. Declining leaves both denied.

Google Analytics data is anonymous and aggregated. We do not combine it with any personally identifiable information. You can learn more about how Google processes data at Google's Privacy Policy.

8.3 Marketing Cookies (Opt-In)

We use the Meta (Facebook) Pixel to measure ad performance and understand how visitors interact with our Website after seeing our ads. The Meta Pixel sets cookies (_fbp, _fbc) only if you accept cookies through our consent banner. If you decline, no Meta Pixel code is loaded and no data is sent to Meta, from your browser or from our server (Section 8.4).

When enabled, the Meta Pixel collects page views and interaction events (such as viewing a product page or completing a purchase). This data is sent to Meta in a pseudonymised form to help us measure ad effectiveness.

Google Ads conversion tracking sets its own cookies through the Google Conversion Linker (names beginning with _gcl_), again only if you accept cookies through our consent banner. Their primary purpose is to remember that your visit began with one of our ads, so that a download or a purchase can be attributed to it; as the next paragraph describes, they also contribute to the remarketing audiences. They contain no name, no email address and no account reference.

If you accept cookies, we also build Google remarketing audiences: the pages you viewed place you in a group — such as people who read a plugin page without downloading the trial — which we share with our Google Ads account so that we can show our ads to that group again. This relies on the Google Analytics cookie already described in Section 8.2 together with the _gcl_ cookies above, and sets no further cookie of ours on your device; Google may in addition use its own advertising cookies, as described in its privacy policy. Membership lapses automatically after at most 540 days, or as soon as you clear site data for ubdsp.com. We never put your name or email address into an audience, we never upload our customer list to Google, and if you decline the banner you are not added to any audience at all.

8.4 Meta Conversions API (Server-Side)

We use Meta's Conversions API to send certain events to Meta from our own server rather than from your browser, so that they do not depend on the Meta Pixel being loaded. We send them only if you accepted marketing cookies in our consent banner: if you declined, or never answered, none of them is sent. Your answer reaches our server in a strictly necessary first-party cookie (ubdsp_consent), and, for a purchase, with the order we pass to Paddle, since Paddle's confirmation of the payment is what tells our server about it.

We rely on your consent (GDPR Article 6(1)(a)) for all of this server-side processing. You may withdraw it at any time with the Cookie settings link at the bottom of every page (Sections 8.6 and 9.7): from then on, none of these events is sent.

You can learn more about how Meta processes data at Meta's Privacy Policy.

8.5 Information Stored in Your Browser (Local Storage)

Besides cookies, our Website keeps a small amount of information in your browser's local storage. It never leaves your device except where stated below, and you can erase all of it at any time by clearing site data for ubdsp.com in your browser settings.

Name Purpose Category
ubdsp_cookie_consent
ubdsp_cookie_consent_date
Your answer to the cookie banner, and when you gave it, so we do not ask again on every page and can honour your choice Strictly necessary (essential)
ubdsp_admin_lang
aff_how_collapsed
Interface preferences on the account areas that use them — your chosen language, and whether an explanatory panel is folded away — so the page looks the way you left it Strictly necessary (essential)
ubdsp_ref The referral code of the affiliate whose link brought you here, so their commission is credited if you later buy. Kept for 30 days at most Attribution
ubdsp_gclid The advertising click identifier Google adds to the link when you arrive from one of our ads, so that a later purchase can be attributed to the right ad. Kept for 30 days at most Attribution
ubdsp_utm The campaign labels of the link that brought you here (the name of the newsletter, article, video or ad it appeared in, and of the campaign), so that a later purchase can be credited to the publication that led to it. Kept for 30 days at most Attribution

The three attribution values are written when you arrive from an affiliate link, one of our ads or a link carrying campaign labels, before you answer the cookie banner. They are a reference to the link you clicked, not a profile of you: they contain no name, no email address and no browsing history, they are never read by any third-party script, and each is replaced by the next link of the same kind you follow. The campaign labels are the same for everyone who followed that link, so they say where a visit came from, never who made it. If you go on to buy, these values are attached to that transaction so the sale can be credited to the right affiliate, ad or publication, and the campaign labels are also recorded with your order (Section 2.2). Otherwise all three stop being used after 30 days and are deleted on your next visit. You may object to this processing at any time (see Section 9.6), and clearing site data removes them immediately.

You can change your answer to our cookie banner at any time, as easily as you gave it: the Cookie settings link at the bottom of every page reopens the banner and shows your current choice. Your new answer applies at once, on the page you are on and on every page after it:

Withdrawing your consent does not affect what was sent while you had given it (Section 9.7). Cookies that Google or Meta keep on their own domains are beyond the reach of our pages; your browser settings can remove them. Your answer and its date are kept in your browser (Section 8.5), and clearing site data for ubdsp.com also brings the banner back.

9. Your Rights Under the GDPR (Articles 15–22)

If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom, or where otherwise applicable, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:

9.1 Right of Access (Article 15)

You have the right to request a copy of the personal data we hold about you. We will provide this in a commonly used, machine-readable format.

9.2 Right to Rectification (Article 16)

You have the right to request correction of any inaccurate or incomplete personal data we hold about you.

9.3 Right to Erasure (Article 17)

You have the right to request deletion of your personal data ("right to be forgotten"). Upon receiving a valid erasure request, we will delete your account and personal data within 30 days, subject to any legal obligations that require us to retain certain records.

9.4 Right to Restrict Processing (Article 18)

You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances, such as when you contest the accuracy of the data or object to processing.

9.5 Right to Data Portability (Article 20)

You have the right to receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, and to transmit that data to another controller.

9.6 Right to Object (Article 21)

You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data where we rely on legitimate interest as the legal basis. Upon receiving an objection, we will cease processing unless we demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds that override your interests.

9.7 Right to Withdraw Consent (Article 7(3))

Where processing is based on your consent (such as the marketing emails you agreed to receive when downloading a free trial), you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. Withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before the withdrawal.

This includes your answer to our cookie banner: the Cookie settings link at the bottom of every page reopens it, and choosing Decline withdraws your consent to analytics and advertising cookies and to the events we send to Meta (Section 8.6).

9.8 How to Exercise Your Rights

To exercise any of these rights, please use our contact page.

We will respond to your request within 30 days, in accordance with GDPR requirements. We may ask you to verify your identity before processing your request. There is no fee for exercising your rights, unless requests are manifestly unfounded or excessive.

9.9 Right to Lodge a Complaint

If you believe we have not handled your personal data properly, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. If you are in the EU, you can contact the data protection authority in your country of residence. In France, the authority is the CNIL (Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés, cnil.fr). A list of EU data protection authorities is available at: European Data Protection Board — Members.

10. International Data Transfers

Your data is stored on servers located in France and Switzerland, provided by PlanetHoster. As both countries are within or recognized by the European Economic Area, no additional transfer safeguards are required under the GDPR for this hosting.

Some of our service providers may transfer data outside the EEA:

11. Data Security

We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data, including:

While we take reasonable precautions to protect your data, no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security.

12. Children's Privacy

Our Services are not directed to children under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under 16. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from a child under 16 without verification of parental consent, we will take steps to delete that data promptly. If you believe a child under 16 has provided us with personal data, please contact us.

13. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we make material changes, we will:

We encourage you to review this policy periodically. Your continued use of our Services after the updated policy takes effect constitutes your acknowledgement of the changes.

14. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, wish to exercise your data protection rights, or have a privacy-related concern, please reach out via our contact page.

We aim to respond to all privacy-related inquiries within 30 days.