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 or the Volcan Forge website is stored privately and is not posted to public GitHub.

  • 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.
  • Website: the feedback form sends your selected product, category, message, and optional contact email to the same private feedback store.
  • 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, signed entitlement caches, and AI API keys are stored in the OS keychain via VS Code SecretStorage. Trial dates live in VS Code globalState.
  • 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 (optional)

PowerOn Forge includes optional AI-assisted authoring. When you use Ask AI, selected code (or the active file, depending on the command) is transmitted to theprovider 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.

Experimental model tool-calling is separately opt-in. When enabled, the provider can request Forge's local validator, formatter, schema/capability lookup, and strict mock runtime. Results derived from the submitted code are returned to that provider. The tools do not scan the workspace, and AI-generated PowerOn receives no filesystem-read budget.

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.