Privacy Policy
The short version. BeatMaxing analyzes your music on your own Mac. Your audio is never uploaded, never sent to us, and never sent to anyone else. Apart from what you choose to email us and, if you subscribe, what our store shows us, we receive only counts of visits, downloads and installed Macs that never name you.
Who this covers
This policy covers the website beatmaxing.com and the BeatMaxing plugin and helper application for Adobe Premiere. "We" and "us" mean BeatMaxing LLC, a California limited liability company.
What the plugin collects
The BeatMaxing panel and helper never send your audio, your projects or your files anywhere. Once you enter a key, they keep the email address that comes with your key, on your own Mac.
- There is no account and no sign-in.
- Your song is analyzed on your own computer. It is never uploaded.
- The plugin panel makes no network connections of any kind.
- We receive no analytics and no crash reports. Two things show us BeatMaxing is in use, both described below: the install count, which never names you, and, once you have a key, when your key last checked in with Polar, which Polar shows us with the email address on your subscription.
The three connections the helper makes.
1 · The update check. BeatMaxing Helper asks beatmaxing.com whether a newer version exists each time it starts, and once a day while it stays on. It asks again when you tell it to update the Premiere panel. The request carries the helper's own version number and nothing else — nothing about you and nothing about your music. Like any request to any website, our host sees your IP address. If a newer version exists, the helper downloads it from that same site. That download request carries the helper's version number too, and nothing about you or your music. When the newer version includes the Premiere panel, the helper also asks GitHub (raw.githubusercontent.com) for that panel's published checksum and refuses to install it unless both answers agree. That request carries the helper's version number as well, and nothing about you or your music; GitHub sees your IP address, as any website would. Right after that check, the helper sends beatmaxing.com one more small request so we can count how many Macs have BeatMaxing installed. It carries the same version number and one random number, and nothing else. BeatMaxing makes that number on your Mac the first time it checks in, and nothing about your Mac, you, your files or your music is used to make it. It lets us count one Mac once, even when its internet address changes. That also means we can tell which checks come from the same Mac, and so how often BeatMaxing Helper starts on that Mac. It does not tell us what you do with BeatMaxing, and the number itself says nothing about whose Mac it is. Our counter keeps the day and time, your country and the version. It never keeps your IP address or the number as they are: it keeps only a code made from each, scrambled with a secret key, so one Mac isn't counted twice. A code on its own does not reveal what it was made from. The number is kept in a file on your Mac that you can delete whenever you like. It is described below, with the other files BeatMaxing keeps on your Mac.
2 · A one-time model download. The first time the helper needs its separation engine, it downloads the model files that engine needs — the main one is about 84 MB — from GitHub, where the engine's models are published. It tries a copy BeatMaxing keeps there first, and the engine's own publishers if that copy is not available. Each model is saved on your Mac, so this happens once, not once per song. Like any request to any website, GitHub sees your IP address. A download request can carry the helper's version number. Nothing about you or your music is sent.
3 · Checking a license key. BeatMaxing will need a license key from November 15, 2026. When you enter one, and from time to time while you keep using it, the helper asks the company that issues the keys — Polar (polar.sh) — whether yours is still valid. That request carries your key, an identifier for the Mac you activated it on, and the helper's version number. Nothing else is sent - nothing about your music, your projects or your files. Polar shows us your key, the Macs it is active on (by a random label, never your Mac's name) and when it last checked in. Polar sees your IP address, as any website would. Before that date BeatMaxing needs no key and makes no such request at all.
Those are the only outbound connections in the product, and your audio is never part of any of them. Once the model is saved, everything except the update check and the key check works with your wifi switched off.
Files kept on your own Mac. BeatMaxing keeps its working files in your Application Support folder: a small log and status file so problems can be diagnosed, and, while it works on a clip that needs converting, a plain-audio copy of it so the panel can read it. If you asked it to ignore the vocals, it makes two working copies instead: the music without the vocals, and the vocals on their own. All of these copies are removed as soon as BeatMaxing is finished with them, and if one is ever left behind, it clears it out by itself the next time it runs. The same folder holds the drum hits it found, the marker list the panel writes when you export one, and the engine's model files once they are downloaded. Like most audio apps, BeatMaxing saves a little setup data outside its own folder so it starts faster next time. It's ordinary housekeeping, it stays on your Mac, and it holds nothing about you or your music. The random number described above is kept in BeatMaxing's own folder, in a small file named install_number.txt. You will find it in your home folder under Library, Application Support, BeatMaxing. Delete the file whenever you like. BeatMaxing then makes a brand-new random number for its next check. That same folder holds the helper's log, named helper_log.txt. It notes what BeatMaxing Helper did and when, and it can include the name and folder of a song you used it on. If something goes wrong inside the panel, the panel adds a short note to a file of its own there, named panel_log.txt: the time, the panel's version, the error's own words and where in the panel it happened. An error's words can include the name and folder of a file, or the name of a clip. A folder's name can include the name of your Mac account. Old notes drop off as new ones are added, so that file stays small. You can delete it whenever you like, and the panel starts a new one if it ever needs to. These logs stay on your Mac. We only see one if you choose to email it to us. Once you enter a key, BeatMaxing also keeps that key, the identifier for your Mac that is sent with it, and the email address the store gives back with it, so the panel can show you whose key it is. Three things kept in these files are also sent, as described above: the random number goes to beatmaxing.com with each check, and your key and the identifier for your Mac go to Polar when your key is checked. Nothing else in these files leaves your Mac unless you choose to send it to us.
What the website collects
When you email us at support@beatmaxing.com, we receive your email address and whatever you write. We use your email and your message to answer you. If you asked to be told when the paid version lands, we keep your address so we can send you that one message, and nothing else - we never sell it, we share it only with the services named below, and you can ask us to delete it at any time. There is no contact form on this site.
Cookies and site statistics. This site is built and hosted on Wix, and Wix places the cookies its hosting needs to work. We count our own visits, downloads and installed Macs, and nothing more. When you open a page or press Download, our site notes the page, the day and time, your country, the kind of device and the browser or app you used (for example, a Mac and Safari) and the name of the website that sent you here (or the tag on our own link you followed). So one person isn't counted twice, it also keeps a code made from each of these, scrambled with a secret key: your IP address and your browser's description of itself. A code on its own does not reveal what it was made from, and it never carries your name. We use these counts only to know how many people found BeatMaxing. Where a cookie banner is shown, non-essential cookies are only set if you agree to them. We run no advertising trackers and no tracking pixels, and we do not sell anything about you. Our own counter does not respond to Do Not Track signals: it counts a visit the same way whatever your browser sends. It does not follow you to other websites.
Downloads. Downloading BeatMaxing does not require an account and we do not attach your name to a download.
When you start a trial or subscribe. From November 15, 2026, BeatMaxing is sold through Polar (polar.sh), which takes your payment as our reseller. Your card goes to Polar and its payment processor, and we never see your full card number. Polar shows us the email address, name and billing address you give at checkout (and a tax ID if you add one), your card's brand, last four digits and expiry date, the plan you chose, whether it is in its trial, active, paused, behind on payment or canceled, and any reason you give when you cancel. We read them in our store account at Polar, which keeps them under its own privacy policy. We use them only to help you with BeatMaxing and your subscription, and to answer you when you write to us. We never sell them, and we share them only with the services named below that help us run BeatMaxing.
Who else can see it
- Wix, which hosts this website. Wix does not receive your messages — email to support@beatmaxing.com goes to our mailbox, which is provided by Google Workspace. Wix also stores our counts of visits, downloads and installed Macs for us.
- Adobe, if you obtain BeatMaxing through the Adobe Marketplace. That transaction happens on Adobe's systems under Adobe's own privacy policy, and we do not receive your details from it.
- Polar, if you start a trial or subscribe from November 15, 2026. Your payment happens on Polar's systems under Polar's own privacy policy.
- Anthropic, whose AI assistant, Claude, helps us read and answer email sent to support@beatmaxing.com and look after subscriptions.
- Dropbox, where we keep a backup of our own records, support email included.
We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it with anyone else except where the law requires it.
How long we keep it
We keep emails for as long as they are useful for supporting you, and we delete them if you ask us to. We keep the counts of visits, downloads and installed Macs for as long as the site runs; they hold nothing that names you.
Your rights
Depending on where you live — including under the GDPR in the UK and EU, and the CCPA in California — you may have the right to ask what personal information we hold about you, to have it corrected, to have it deleted, and to object to how we use it. You will never be treated differently for asking.
In practice this almost always means the contents of a message you sent us, or, if you subscribe, the details Polar shows us. Email support@beatmaxing.com and we will deal with it.
Children
BeatMaxing is a tool for video editors and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 16. If you believe a child has sent us information, tell us and we will delete it.
Security
Emails you send us are held in our Google Workspace mailbox and protected by Google's security. No system is perfect, and we will not pretend otherwise — but because we hold so little, there is very little to lose.
Changes to this policy
If BeatMaxing ever starts collecting something it does not collect today, this page will be updated before that version is released, and the date at the top will change.
Contact
Email support@beatmaxing.com. It is read by a person.