Privacy, in plain language.

Excel Link Detective is designed so workbook scanning and repair happen locally on your Windows PC. Your workbook contents are not uploaded to Friction Tamer for analysis.

Website

This static website is published without advertising trackers, behavioural analytics or marketing cookies by default. Basic infrastructure logs may still be processed by the hosting provider for security, reliability and abuse prevention.

Excel Link Detective

Workbook scans, health checks and supported repairs are performed locally. The application may access paths you choose in order to verify referenced source workbooks.

Licensing and purchases

When Pro licensing is enabled, licence activation/validation can communicate with the licensing provider to validate a licence key and activation instance. Workbook contents are not part of that licence request.

Purchases are handled by the checkout/payment provider. Payment information is entered with that provider and is subject to its privacy terms; Friction Tamer does not need your full payment-card details to scan or repair a workbook.

Support

If you contact support, the information you choose to send will be used to respond to your request. Avoid sending confidential workbooks unless support specifically asks for a minimal test file and you are comfortable sharing it.

Your rights

Applicable privacy and consumer laws may provide rights over personal information held by a service provider. For privacy or support questions, use: Support contact will be published before launch.

Changes

This page may be updated when the public checkout, licensing service or website functionality changes. Last updated: August 2026.