Terms and privacy

Last updated: November 2026

Hoy is made by Dominik Kandravý's company, STUDIO DK01, s.r.o. ("I"). By using it, you agree to these terms.

Your license

Hoy is free: join as many channels as you like and host up to three. Hoy Pro is one purchase with no renewals: unlimited channels to host and every Pro feature, now and later, on every device on your iCloud account. It's yours to use, not to pass on: no reselling or redistributing Hoy, no sharing your license key, and no reverse engineering the app.

Polar sells Pro on the Mac, the App Store on iPhone and iPad, and they handle payments and refunds. A refund turns Pro off. Your channels stay, but you can't host new ones beyond the free three.

Your content

What you drop travels through iCloud, between you and the people in your channels. There is no Hoy server, so I can't see it, moderate it or bring it back. What you share is on you: nothing illegal, nothing that isn't yours.

Privacy

The app collects no analytics. Your profile lives in your channels, where only their members see it. Whoever holds an open channel's link can see its name and who's in it; an invite-only channel shows nothing. Recordings are transcribed by Apple's speech recognition, on your device where Apple supports it.

The app talks to iCloud, to Polar to check a Pro key bought on the Mac (with your Mac's name, to label it), to files.heyiam.dk for updates, and to sites linked in your channels, for their previews. This website counts visits with Cloudflare Web Analytics: no cookies, no tracking across sites, just totals. Invite pages aren't counted.

All I hold about you is what you email me and, if you buy Pro on the Mac, the email address and key Polar passes on. I use them to answer you, keep your license working, and now and then tell you about my apps (unsubscribe in any such email). I keep emails for about two years. Ask to see, correct or delete any of it at hello@gethoy.app, or complain to the Czech data protection office, uoou.gov.cz.

Before 1.0, Hoy kept profile photos and Pro badges in a database I can read. 1.0 doesn't; write to me and I'll remove yours.

As is

I put a lot of care into Hoy, but it comes as is, without warranties. As far as the law allows, I'm not liable for indirect damages or lost data, and never for more than you paid. None of this limits your rights as a consumer.

The rest

Hoy stays mine: you get a license, not ownership. What you drop stays yours. If you break these terms, your license ends. Prices and limits may change for new purchases, never for what you already have. Czech law applies.

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