The fine print
Last updated: September 30, 2026 · Ampere is published by az code lab.
Privacy
Ampere is built to know your battery, not you.
- The app collects no analytics and no telemetry. Your battery data never leaves your Mac.
- Registration sends your email address, license key, your Mac’s device serial, the app version, and the macOS version to our license server, and re-verifies (email + serial + app version + macOS version) about once a day and whenever you open the app’s registration window. That’s the entire exchange. The macOS version tells us which systems Ampere still has to support; it is kept with your registration and shown only to us. Our server also keeps a log of these verification requests (the time, the IP address the request came from, the device serial, the app version, and the request’s user agent, which is the app name plus the network and kernel versions macOS attaches to every request) for fraud prevention and support. The log is visible only to us, is never shared, and isn’t used for anything else; a deletion request covers it too.
- Purchases are processed by Stripe or PayPal, whichever you choose at checkout. We receive your email address and order details — never your card number or PayPal credentials. The payment provider’s own privacy policy applies on its checkout pages.
- This website sets no cookies and runs no trackers or third-party analytics.
- Update checks query the public Homebrew cask and GitHub releases; no personal data is attached.
Questions or deletion requests: open a ticket at azcode.dev and we’ll take care of it.
License terms
- Each license key registers as many Macs at once as its license allows: the pricing card states the number before you buy, and My Licenses at azcode.dev and the app’s registration window show it for your own key. You can move a key to another Mac whenever you like: deregister on the old Mac, or release a Mac that is gone under My Licenses. A key that allows a single Mac also moves when you simply register the new machine with the same email; a key that allows several takes further Macs until it is full.
- Keys are bound to the purchase email and are for use by you (or your team, for multi-key purchases). Please don’t resell or publish them; revoked keys stop verifying.
- Updates are delivered free through the app and Homebrew.
- Ampere’s source code is available under the MIT license; the license key covers registration of official builds.
- The software is provided “as is”, without warranty of any kind. Ampere controls charging through Apple’s SMC and is designed to restore system defaults when it exits, but you use low-level features at your own discretion.
Refunds
If Ampere isn’t for you, tell us within 14 days of purchase and we’ll refund you in full — no questions asked. Open a ticket at azcode.dev (sign in with your purchase email — a login link is sent to you, no password needed). Refunded keys are deactivated.