Privacy Policy

Last updated: 28 September 2026

Herma is made by Ivan-Vladyslav Pitsur ("we") and offered through the Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/cw/Zuriel777. This says what Herma and its server know about you, and why. It is short because there is not much.

Who is responsible for your data (the controller, under the GDPR): Ivan-Vladyslav Pitsur, Nad Plovárnou 3769/13, 586 01 Jihlava, Czech Republic, w.w.zuriel@gmail.com.

Herma on your Mac

Herma runs on your Mac and streams to your headset over your own network or a cable. It collects no analytics, crash reports or usage statistics, and it does not send the contents of your screen, your games or your headset anywhere but to your own headset.

With your permission, given in macOS's own settings, Herma listens to the sound your Mac is playing (Screen Recording — macOS gives sound only with it) so the game's sound reaches your headset, can show your Mac's windows in the headset, and can move your Mac's pointer when you point at a window there (Accessibility). All of that goes from your Mac to your own headset and nowhere else, and none of it is recorded.

Herma keeps a log of what it does on your Mac, for you to read when something goes wrong. It never sends it anywhere; you choose whether to share it.

The headset's microphone is used only if you switch it on (Herma's Device page), and only while it is on. What it hears goes from the headset to your own Mac, to the "Herma Microphone" device, and nowhere else; nothing is recorded or sent to us.

Herma sends two things over the internet to our own server. About once a day, while your Patreon account is connected, it asks whether your membership is still active, sending the Patreon token described below. Once a day it also asks which version of Herma is current, so it can tell you about updates; that request carries nothing about you, your Mac or your account. Without a membership (the free pre-alpha), Herma makes the same request when a game starts and about every hour while it runs, to learn today's date from the server's clock; it too carries nothing about you. Like any request on the internet, these reveal your IP address to the server.

For the free pre-alpha's 25 minutes a day, Herma counts today's minutes of play on your Mac: a date and a number, kept in Herma's folder and in your Mac's keychain, sealed so they cannot be changed unnoticed. They never leave your Mac.

When a game needs them, Herma also downloads software from its makers' own servers: Android's platform tools from Google (dl.google.com), and Microsoft's Visual C++ 6 and DirectX packages from Microsoft (download.microsoft.com). These are ordinary downloads; they send nothing about you, but they do reveal your IP address to Google or Microsoft, under their own privacy policies (Google, Microsoft).

Herma keeps its settings, your Patreon token and your current pass in ~/Library/Application Support/Herma on your Mac, where only your user account can read them.

Patreon

Your membership, payments and billing are handled by Patreon, under Patreon's Privacy Policy. We never see your password, email address, payment details or address.

The membership check

When you press Connect Patreon, you sign in with Patreon and allow Herma to see your identity and memberships. Patreon then tells our server:

• your Patreon user ID and the name on your Patreon account;
• whether your membership is active, and which tier it is.

Our server uses that only to answer one question — may this person play? — and keeps none of it. It stores no list of members, no tokens and no history. The Patreon token that lets Herma ask again tomorrow is handed straight back to Herma and kept only on your Mac; our server passes it to Patreon each day and forgets it.

The download page asks the same question. When you sign in with Patreon there, Patreon tells our server the same two things; if your membership is active you are shown a link to the download that works for one hour. The server then forgets the answer, and the Patreon token is thrown away at once — it is not kept, and not handed to Herma.

While you sign in with Patreon, either way, your browser keeps a cookie for at most ten minutes, so that the sign-in coming back from Patreon can be matched to the one you started. It is needed for signing in and used for nothing else.

The server runs on Cloudflare Workers, which processes requests on our behalf and may keep standard request logs (including IP addresses) for a short time for security and reliability.

Like every creator on Patreon, we can see who our members are — the name on their Patreon account, their tier, and when they joined or left — on Patreon itself; our server can fetch the same summary from Patreon for us when we ask for it, and keeps none of it.

We do not sell or share anything, and we do not use it for advertising. The legal basis is providing the membership benefit you signed up for.

Your headset

Herma's app on your headset talks only to your Mac. Herma writes one thing onto the headset over its cable: the word your Mac uses to recognise it over Wi-Fi, so that nobody else on your network can take its place. The headset's microphone is covered above.

Where it goes

Our server runs on Cloudflare, and your membership is held by Patreon. Both are companies based in the United States, so the little that passes through them may be processed there. Both take part in the EU–US Data Privacy Framework and use the European Commission's standard contractual clauses, which is what makes such a transfer lawful.

Stopping it

Press Disconnect Patreon in Herma to delete the token from your Mac, or remove Herma under Patreon › Settings › Apps to make it useless. Either way, nothing about you remains with us.

Your rights

Under the GDPR you have the right to see the data we hold about you, to have it corrected or deleted, to restrict or object to how it is used, and to receive it in a portable form. Since we keep none, there is usually nothing for us to show or delete — but ask us at a message on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/cw/Zuriel777) or w.w.zuriel@gmail.com and we will answer within 30 days.

Complaints

If you think we have handled data about you wrongly, you may complain to a data protection authority — where you live, or in the Czech Republic to the Úřad pro ochranu osobních údajů (www.uoou.cz). We would rather hear about it first, and will answer any message within 30 days.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be at the same address with a new date.

Contact: a message on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/cw/Zuriel777) or w.w.zuriel@gmail.com