Volcan Forge

Privacy

How Volcan Forge products handle data. Written in plain language.

This page covers Volcan Forge websites and the PowerOn Forge VS Code extension. ETK is not generally available yet; when it ships, this page (or a linked product notice) will be updated.

Who we are

Volcan Forge operates volcanforge.com. Privacy questions:support@volcanforge.com (orfeedback@volcanforge.com for extension feedback settings).

This marketing site

The public site is static. It does not set analytics cookies or load third-party tracking scripts. Your browser still sends normal web server logs to the host (Netlify) such as IP address, user agent, and requested URL — that is hosting infrastructure, not product telemetry.

PowerOn Forge — telemetry

No usage telemetry is collected. The extension does not transmit usage events, and there is no endpoint receiving them. Nothing about how you use PowerOn Forge is sent anywhere.

If that ever changes, it will be anonymous, it will respect VS Code's globaltelemetry.telemetryLevel setting, and this page will be updated before the change ships. It would never include file paths, file contents, license keys, names, email addresses, or credit union identifiers.

The sections below describe the network requests the extension does make. Each one happens only in response to something you deliberately do.

License validation

Activating Premium sends your license key and machineId tohttps://volcanforge.com/api/v1/validate over HTTPS. Keys are not logged in the extension. Purchase and license delivery also involve Stripe (payment) and email delivery of the key to the address you provide at checkout.

Private feedback

Feedback from the extension Feedback panel is not posted to public GitHub by default.

  • API (default): HTTPS POST to the configured feedback API URL with your message, optional email, and optional environment metadata. Specfile source code is not included.
  • Email: opens a mailto: draft tofeedback@volcanforge.com on your machine.
  • File: saves a markdown report locally (extension storage or a workspace feedback folder if enabled).

If the API is unreachable, a local copy may be saved on your machine as a fallback.

Local data on your machine

  • License keys are stored in VS Code globalState on your machine.
  • Mock databases and run history stay in memory / workspace unless you export output yourself.
  • Optional local feedback copies under .poweron-forge/feedback/ — add that path to .gitignore if you do not want them in git.

Ask AI (planned / when enabled)

PowerOn Forge includes AI-assisted authoring in the codebase. It is planned as a separate paid tier and is not sold on this site yet. When you use Ask AI, selected code (or the active file, depending on the command) is transmitted to the provider you configure:

  • OpenRouter by default (remote API), or
  • a local Ollama instance, or
  • another custom OpenAI-compatible endpoint you set

Remote providers receive the code you choose to send. Local Ollama keeps that traffic on the machine or network you configure. Do not use Ask AI with code you are not allowed to transmit. The extension requests consent before sending.

Consistency note: the extension repodocs/PRIVACY.md currently documents telemetry, license validation, and feedback, but does not yet describe Ask AI. This site section matches the extension’s Ask AI behavior; the markdown doc should be updated to stay aligned.

Purchases

Card payments are processed by Stripe. Volcan Forge receives the information needed to fulfill the order (typically email and payment status) and to email a license key. See Stripe’s privacy documentation for how Stripe processes payment data.

Changes

If practices change in a material way, this page will be updated. The date of the last substantive edit should be treated as part of the page content when a lawyer finalizes it.