Privacy policy
Last updated: 18 October 2026
Who we are
StabLib FX is made by Jony-Christan Linton-Jude, trading as Jonybeats, of Unit 6U, Atlas Business Centre, Oxgate Lane, London NW2 7HJ, England (ICO registration number ZC265058). We are the "controller" of the personal data described here. Contact us about anything in this policy at support@stablibfx.com.
What the plugin sends: only a licence check
The StabLib FX plugin and standalone app connect to the internet for one thing: checking your licence, through our licensing provider Moonbase (moonbase.sh). That happens when you activate it, and then at most every 6 hours while you use it. Each check sends:
- your licence (which records your name and email, as on your purchase);
- an identifier for your computer: a one-way code made from its hardware identifiers, which can't be turned back into those identifiers, so that a licence works only on the computers you've activated;
- the version of StabLib FX and of your operating system.
It never sends your audio, projects, presets, files, or anything about
your DAW, and the plugin has no analytics or tracking. Your presets and
settings stay on your own computer, in ~/Library/StabLibFX (Mac) or
%APPDATA%\StabLibFX (Windows). We never see them.
A preset pack you export contains only the presets you chose, the pack's name, the date and the plugin's version. It does not contain your name or your computer's account name.
What we collect, and why
| When | What | Why (lawful basis) | Kept for |
|---|---|---|---|
| You make an account on stablibfx.com | Your name, email and password, and whether you ticked "Email me new presets and updates". Your browser sends them straight to Moonbase, which keeps your account: our website shows the form, but never receives or keeps your password | To give you the account you sign in to the plugin with (contract). The tick box: to send you news (consent) | As for subscribing, below |
| You subscribe or start a trial | Your name, email, country, your subscription and payments, and the computers you've activated. Moonbase handles your payment details; we never see your card. | To supply the product and support it (contract). To keep tax and accounting records (legal obligation). | While you're a customer, then 6 years after your last payment, as UK tax law requires |
| The plugin checks your licence | Your licence, your computer's identifier, the plugin and OS versions (see above) | To make sure a licence is used as agreed (contract) | Kept by Moonbase with your account |
| You upload to the preset library | Your Moonbase customer number (not your email), so we can check you're a customer, apply upload limits and stop abuse. The name you choose to show, the genre, who it's inspired by, and the presets themselves, which anyone can see and download. When you uploaded and how the sound check went | To run the preset library you chose to share in (contract), and to keep it safe from spam and abuse (legitimate interests) | While your preset is in the library. One that doesn't pass the check: 90 days. One we take down: 1 year, so it can't simply be uploaded again. If we stop an account uploading because of abuse: its customer number, for 3 years |
| You vote or report in the preset library | Your thumbs up or down, or what you reported. To allow one vote per person and to limit spam, your IP address is turned into a scrambled code with a secret key; the address itself isn't stored | To run the ratings and deal with reports (legitimate interests) | Votes: while the preset is in the library. Reports: 1 year |
| You email us | Your email address and what you write | To answer you (legitimate interests, or contract if you're a customer) | 2 years after the conversation ends |
| You join the mailing list | Your email, when and how you signed up, and whether you open our emails and which links you click | To send the free preset pack and the news you asked for, and to see which emails are useful (consent) | Until you unsubscribe, then 30 days |
| You beta test | Your email and the feedback, crash reports or recordings you send | To fix problems (legitimate interests) | Until the product has launched and the issues are fixed, then deleted |
| You visit the website | Nothing that identifies you. Cloudflare, which hosts the site, sees your IP address and browser details to deliver the pages and protect the site from attacks, and shows us only totals, such as how many visits and from which countries, without cookies. To show prices in your currency, your browser asks Moonbase for them, so Moonbase sees your IP address too (as it does at checkout); no cookies are sent | To run the website safely and show you the right price (legitimate interests) | We keep nothing; Cloudflare and Moonbase briefly, under their own privacy policies |
We don't sell your data, use it for advertising profiles or to train AI, or make automated decisions about you. (The preset library's sound check is automatic, but it judges how a preset sounds, not you.)
The preset library. What's public is what you chose to share: the name you show, the preset, its genre and who it's inspired by, and how many thumbs it has. Your email and customer number are never shown. To check an upload, its settings (with no name or email attached) are played through the plugin on GitHub's servers. To take a preset down, or everything you've uploaded, email support@stablibfx.com.
Emails about your purchase. As a customer you'll get the emails you need: receipts, licence and account emails, and notice of changes to your subscription, its price or these policies. They aren't marketing, so they come whether or not you've joined the mailing list. News and offers only come if you've joined it, and each one has an unsubscribe link.
Who else handles it
We use these services to run the business. They only use your data to provide their service to us:
- Moonbase AS (Norway): our reseller and licensing provider. Moonbase is the merchant of record: it sells the subscription to you, handles payment, tax and invoicing, and runs your customer account and licence checks. If your billing address is in the United States, its US company, Moonbase LLC, is the seller instead. For payment data Moonbase is a controller in its own right, under its own privacy policy.
- Zoho Mail (EU data centre): our email.
- MailerLite (Lithuania, data stored in the EU): our mailing list.
- Cloudflare (United States): hosts stablibfx.com, protects it from attacks, counts visits without cookies, keeps the preset library's records (in Europe), and runs the robot check on uploads (Turnstile).
- GitHub (United States, part of Microsoft): runs the preset library's sound check. It receives only preset settings, never your name or email.
Some of these providers are outside the UK. Moonbase (Norway), Zoho's EU data centre and MailerLite (EU) are in countries the UK recognises as protecting personal data adequately. Cloudflare and GitHub (Microsoft) are in the United States, and are certified under the UK-US "data bridge" (the UK Extension to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework), which protects transfers to them.
Your rights
You can ask us to:
- see the personal data we hold about you;
- correct it;
- delete it (unless the law requires us to keep it, for example tax records);
- restrict or object to how we use it;
- give it to you in a portable format.
You can withdraw consent to marketing at any time with the unsubscribe link in every email. To use any of these rights, email support@stablibfx.com. It's free, we may ask you to confirm who you are first, and we'll reply within one month.
If you're unhappy with how we've handled your data, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk or 0303 123 1113. Please contact us first so we can try to put it right.
Keeping it safe
The website, the checkout and the plugin's licence checks only use encrypted connections (HTTPS), and we never see or keep card details. Passwords go from your browser straight to Moonbase: our website and our servers never receive or keep them, and the plugin never asks for one. A new password needs at least 8 characters, with a capital letter, a small letter, a number and a symbol. Uploaded presets are rebuilt from the plugin's own settings before anyone can download them, so nothing else in an uploaded file ever reaches anyone. We use providers that protect data to a high standard, and only we can sign in to our accounts with them. If a breach ever puts your data at risk, we'll tell you, and the ICO where the law requires it.
Cookies
stablibfx.com sets no cookies of its own, and its visit counting and robot check use none. It keeps a few small things in your browser, only to do what you asked, and never for tracking:
- that you've already seen a page in this tab, so the home page's opening only plays once (until you close the tab);
- while you're buying, that you're signed in, so you stay signed in if you reload the page or come back from the checkout (until you close the tab);
- your thumbs in the preset library, so you can see what you voted (until you clear your browser's data).
Checkout, activation and your account settings are on Moonbase's pages, which set only the cookies they strictly need to work.
Children
StabLib FX isn't aimed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect their data.
Changes
If this policy changes, we'll update the date at the top. If a change affects how we use data you've already given us, we'll email you.