Legal
Privacy notice
Last updated 30 September 2026
This notice explains what Litesum does with the personal information you give us. That happens in two places: a Litesum account, created at account.litesum.com, and the early-access list on litesum.com, which has closed.
Litesum sends no newsletters, development updates, testing invitations or launch news by email.
This website takes no sign-ups. The only personal information it holds is the email addresses given to the early-access list before the list closed.
In short: Litesum sends no marketing email of any kind. An account holds only what signing in, the membership and the two-computer limit need, and you can download or delete it yourself. If you gave us your address before the list closed, we send nothing to it, delete it on the timetable below, and remove it sooner whenever you ask. We never sell or share your information for other organisations’ marketing.
Who is responsible
Litesum is an independent software project and is the data controller for the information described here. You can reach us at privacy@litesum.com.
What the closed list holds
| Information | Why we hold it | Lawful basis |
|---|---|---|
| Email address | Given to the list before it closed. Nothing is sent to it; it is kept only until it is deleted as set out below. | Consent |
| Intended use, if you choose one | Asked for at sign-up to understand which kinds of work people wanted Litesum for. It is used for nothing now. | Consent |
| Record of your consent | The wording you agreed to at sign-up, its version, and when you agreed. Kept so we can show the address was given with consent. | Legal obligation and legitimate interests |
| Sign-up source and time | Recorded at sign-up to tell genuine sign-ups from automated abuse of the form. | Legitimate interests |
The list never asked for your name, address, telephone number or payment details. Addresses can no longer be confirmed: a confirmation link from an earlier email now adds nothing.
How long the list keeps your address
- Unconfirmed sign-ups are removed within 30 days if the address is never confirmed.
- Confirmed sign-ups are kept until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete them, and no later than the first public release.
- Consent records for addresses that unsubscribe are kept for up to 24 months so we can show that the address was given with consent and when it was withdrawn.
Your Litesum account
A Litesum account holds only what signing in, the membership and the two-computer limit need. This is everything it holds.
| Information | Why we hold it | When you delete the account |
|---|---|---|
| Email address | To identify the account, send the messages a membership needs, and let a password be reset. | Deleted when the account is deleted. |
| Password, stored as a hash | To sign in. The password itself is never stored and cannot be read back by anyone at Litesum. | Deleted when the account is deleted. |
| Registered computers | To enforce the two-computer limit and to issue a licence bound to the machine using it. An identifier and a name you can recognise, not a hardware profile. | Deleted when the account is deleted, and individually when a computer is removed. |
| Membership status and licence records | To know whether the membership is active, when the period ends, and which licences were issued. | Deleted with the account. The payment provider’s notices of each subscription change are kept as the accounting record of money taken; they identify the payment by the provider’s own reference, not by your email address. |
| Account activity log | A security record of changes to the account: registering and confirming it, password changes, computers added and removed, data exports, cancellation requests and the deletion itself. | Kept only as a count of events, with every name removed. |
| Billing records | Card details are never seen or stored by Litesum. Payment is handled by the payment provider as merchant of record; Litesum receives the outcome, not the card. | Held by the payment provider under their own retention rules, and by law for accounting. |
Encrypted nightly backups keep daily, weekly and monthly copies, so a deleted account can remain in those backups for up to about six months, until they are replaced.
The account’s email address receives service email only: confirming the address, resetting a password, necessary billing and security notices, and replies when you write to us.
Who else sees it
Your information is handled by our email delivery provider and our hosting provider, acting on our instructions so service email can be sent and the site and your account can run. When you take out a membership, payment is handled by the payment provider as merchant of record; Litesum never sees your card. We do not sell personal information, and we do not share it with other organisations for their own marketing.
Cookies and measurement
This site sets no advertising cookies and carries no third-party advertising or tracking scripts. We count page views and which sections people reach, in a form that does not identify individual visitors, so we can tell whether the page explains the product well.
Your work and your files
This website accepts no uploads of any kind. The Litesum applications process your files on your own computer: there is no upload step, no cloud processing option and no cloud file storage. Nothing you open, edit or export is sent to Litesum, so it cannot be read by us, cannot be used to train our models, and cannot be disclosed by us to anyone else.
We also keep no record about your files. Litesum stores no filenames, sizes, formats, dimensions, camera or EXIF data, locations, thumbnails, index or history of the work you do. The applications report no telemetry and no usage analytics. See Litesum for education and Litesum for business, which set out what this means for an institution.
Your rights
You can ask us to give you a copy of the information we hold about you, correct it, delete it, or stop using it. You can withdraw consent at any time, which for the list means unsubscribing.
If you have a Litesum account, you can download a copy of your data or delete the account yourself, from the account’s security page.
- The unsubscribe link in the confirmation email still works.
- You can also email privacy@litesum.com and ask us to remove you.
We will always respond within one month. If you are not satisfied with how we have handled your information, you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office at ico.org.uk.
Changes to this notice
If this notice changes, we will update the date at the top of this page.
Contact
Privacy questions: privacy@litesum.com
Anything else: hello@litesum.com