They finally
released for Mac. Very good, but a news comment mentioned that the Windoze version was once loaded up with call-home spyware. Nothing about that was mentioned on the
product page, so I checked out the company's general
Privacy Policy page instead.
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Software Reporting: The software includes a feature which assigns a unique number to your computer based on system information. The software reports this number to us when you use the Software during the trial period. The Software may also identify and report to us your Windows language identifier setting, IP address, and the date and time of program use. We use this information to count the number of installations, measure frequency of use, detect piracy of our software, and develop rough statistical data regarding the geographic location of our users. If you register our software, we may tie this information to any personal information that we have about you.
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Web Beacons: A Web beacon is a small image we place in our Web-based e-mail communications. Web beacons allow us to access our cookie to tell us whether you have viewed our e-mail. This information may be tied to personal information we have about you. If you set your browser to refuse cookies, the Web beacon will provide us only with information that an e-mail has been viewed, but we will not be able to identify the visit with your browser.
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The page does not obviously indicate when it was last updated. Still ... perhaps it would be a good idea to run a port monitor while firing up the demo. To see if it calls home.
edit: added product links
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