Privacy policy. ​

Effective: 16 May 2026

01 What this policy covers ​

This policy covers the website at vl-studios.com and the VL Studio desktop application. "We," "us," and "our" refer to Verus Lux Studios, a sole-proprietor software studio in St. Petersburg, Florida. "You" means anyone visiting our website or using our app.

02 What we collect on this website ​

Nothing personal. The website doesn't use cookies, doesn't run analytics, and doesn't embed tracking pixels. There's nothing on this page reporting your visit back to us.

Two things happen automatically that we want you to know about:

• Our hosting provider (Microsoft Azure Static Web Apps) keeps temporary server-side request logs that include IP addresses and User-Agent strings. Microsoft uses these for abuse prevention, debugging, and uptime; they are governed by Microsoft's own privacy policy. We do not pull or analyze these logs.
• Pages on this site load fonts from Google Fonts. When they do, Google's servers can see your IP and User-Agent. This is governed by Google's privacy policy. If this matters to you, modern browsers and browser extensions can block third-party requests; the site remains readable.

If you contact us by email (info@vl-studios.com), we receive your email address and whatever you sent us. We use it to reply. We don't add you to a mailing list unless you explicitly ask to be added.

03 What we collect in the VL Studio app ​

Nothing leaves your computer without your action. VL Studio stores its data — your presets, songs, setlists, lyrics, settings, and AI Skills — locally on your machine. The app doesn't phone home, doesn't send telemetry, and doesn't include analytics.

If you use the in-app AI chat assistant with your own API key (for Claude, Gemini, OpenAI, Mistral, Grok, or another OpenAI-compatible provider), your prompts and the context you've authorized the assistant to use are sent directly from your computer to the provider you chose, using credentials you supplied. We are not in that loop. Your API keys never leave your machine. Refer to your chosen provider's privacy policy for how they handle the data they receive.

If you run the AI assistant against a local model (Ollama, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint on your own machine or network), no data leaves your machine at all.

When you connect your TC-Helicon VL3X device, the app speaks to it locally over USB MIDI. No internet connection is involved.

04 Cookies ​

This site does not set cookies. If we ever need to (for example, to remember a chosen theme or language across visits), we'll use only first-party, strictly-necessary cookies and update this policy to say so. We will never use cookies for analytics, advertising, or cross-site tracking.

05 Third parties ​

• Microsoft Store. When you purchase, install, or update VL Studio through the Microsoft Store, Microsoft handles the transaction under its own terms and privacy policy. We receive aggregated, anonymous sales information from Microsoft (counts, country-level breakdowns) and nothing more.
• AI providers. If you configure an API key for any third-party AI provider, your usage is governed by that provider's terms and privacy policy. We never see your prompts, conversations, or responses.
• Microsoft Azure Static Web Apps. Hosts this website. See above re: server-side request logs.
• Google Fonts. Serves typography for our site. See above.

06 Data we sell or share ​

None. Ever. Because we collect no personal data, there is nothing to sell or share. If that ever changes, this policy will change first, with prominent notice and a meaningful effective date — not a retroactive footnote.

07 Children ​

VL Studio is a professional audio tool not directed at children under 13. We don't knowingly collect information from anyone — see Section 02 — but we mention this for clarity. If you believe a child has somehow sent us information, please email us and we'll delete it.

08 Your rights ​

Because we don't collect personal data, there's no data of yours to access, correct, export, or delete. If you've emailed us, you can ask us to delete that email correspondence at any time and we will.

09 Changes to this policy ​

If we change this policy, we'll update the effective date at the top and post the new version at this URL. Substantive changes — the kind that affect what data we collect or how we use it — will be summarized prominently.

10 Contact ​

Privacy questions: info@vl-studios.com.