Plain language

What cpuPulse sees — and what it never sees.

cpuPulse is running on this computer because whoever owns it asked for it. It is not hidden: it is a named Windows service you can see in Task Manager. This page is the whole list of what it records. There is nothing else.

What it records

The name of each program and service that runs, and how much of the processor it used.
The clock: which ten minutes of the day that use happened in.
The name of this computer.
When the machine started, shut down, slept and woke; when someone signed in, out, locked or unlocked it.
When the agent itself started and stopped — so a gap in the record is visible, not hidden.

What it never records

Your screen. No screenshots, ever.
What you type. No keystrokes, no clipboard.
The websites you visit, or anything inside a page.
Your files, their names, or their contents.
Your messages, e-mail, camera or microphone.
Where you are.
Which Windows account is signed in. It records that a session started or ended — never whose.

How long it is kept

Twelve months. Then it is deleted.

A year of days, and no more. Older days are deleted outright — not archived, not anonymised and quietly kept. If this computer is removed from the account, or the account is closed, what it recorded goes within ninety days.

The whole picture

This is what the owner sees.

One row per program, the hours of the day across. Darker means the program used more of the processor in that slot. That is the entire product — this picture, once a day, per computer.

Your options

If you would rather it was not here.

Talk to whoever owns this computer — they installed it and they can remove it from Apps & Features, like any other program. You can also check it is doing what this page says: open a terminal and run cpupulse status. It answers for any user, without administrator rights.