XLUNA Privacy Guard Pro is a desktop app for reviewing and changing the privacy settings of Windows. This page sets out what it reads, what it changes on your PC, what it stores, and the only requests it involves over the internet.
XLUNA Privacy Guard Pro is made by XLUNA™, an independent software studio run by Hasnain Butt Akhtar. It applies to version 1.0.0 and later on Windows. The app works without an account and without telemetry.
No name, email, phone number, address, account, sign-in or identifier.
No telemetry, crash analytics, tracking or advertising code of any kind.
The state of your Windows privacy settings, the list of apps that have camera, microphone or location entries, and your startup entries are read on your PC to show them to you. They are never sent anywhere.
The app does not scan or read your documents, photos or other personal files.
The app does not see or record the sites you visit.
Everything the app saves is kept in its own folder in your local app data, and nothing in it is uploaded.
Appearance, close-to-tray and automatic-reapply options.
The state of each protection the first time the app ran, so you can go back to how you had it.
The state the app left each protection in, used to notice protections that Windows has since reverted.
Which protection changed, whether it was turned on or off, when, and what caused it, kept to the most recent 400 entries. You can clear it in the app.
A copy of your hosts file from before the first tracker-blocking change, and a copy from before the latest one.
An error log of recovered problems, and a log of whether each step of an administrator action succeeded, to help diagnose faults. Neither is sent anywhere.
Small script and result files used to read and write your per-user settings, and a temporary copy of the hosts file used when it is updated. The app deletes them when it has finished with them.
Managed by the Microsoft Store. The app reads it on your PC; we receive nothing.
Uninstalling the app removes its data folder. It does not undo changes the app made to Windows, so use the restore-defaults action in the app first if you want them reverted. The app also leaves one small test value under the XLUNAPrivacyGuardPro key in your per-user registry, written to confirm that its settings helper works.
The app contains no analytics, no update checker and no code that uploads data. Every internet request connected with it is listed here.
Microsoft Store licence check, handled by Microsoft, to confirm your trial or purchase.
This setting points your active network adapters at the Cloudflare resolvers 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1 and registers Cloudflare's encrypted DNS address. From then on Windows sends your DNS lookups, the names of the sites and services your PC connects to, to Cloudflare, under Cloudflare's own terms and privacy policy, because that is what the setting configures. The app does not see or store those lookups. Turning the setting off returns your adapters to automatic DNS, so a custom DNS server you set before is not restored.
The Microsoft Store pages and the XLUNA website open in your own browser or the Store only when you choose them.
No data is sent to XLUNA™. Nothing is shared with any other third party by the app.
XLUNA Privacy Guard Pro is a paid app with a free trial managed by the Microsoft Store. Microsoft handles every payment and transaction. We never see or store your card details or your Microsoft account information. The rating button only opens the Microsoft Store's own rating page, and nothing is offered or withheld in return for a rating.
The app changes real Windows settings, and only when you apply a protection or a preset. Windows, Windows updates or other software can change these settings afterwards. The app can show you when that has happened and, if you turn on automatic reapply, set them again.
Needed to read and change Windows settings outside the app's own sandbox. The app starts without administrator rights.
Used only for the requests listed in section 4.
Camera, microphone, location and Bluetooth access, advertising ID, inking and typing personalisation, Recall data analysis, SmartScreen reporting, lock screen and Start menu suggestions, online speech recognition and tailored experiences are Windows settings stored in your user registry. They are read and changed by a short-lived helper process (PowerShell) that the app starts, because a packaged app cannot reach the real user registry directly.
Diagnostic data level, activity history, app diagnostics, Recall, clipboard sync, handwriting data sharing, feedback prompts and update peer sharing are Windows policy values under the machine registry. Changing them needs administrator rights, so the app asks Windows for permission with the standard administrator prompt, and you approve it yourself. Turning a policy off removes the value the app added.
When you turn the Bluetooth protection on, the app disables your Bluetooth adapter and its devices through an administrator step, which disconnects paired keyboards, mice and headphones. Turning the protection off enables the same devices again.
When you block the camera or microphone, the app also disables the matching camera, imaging or audio capture devices in Windows using the same administrator step, and re-enables them when you turn the protection off.
The ad tracker protection adds a marked block of advertising, analytics and telemetry domain names, each mapped to 0.0.0.0, to the Windows hosts file, using the administrator step. It leaves the rest of the file as it was and removes only its own block when you turn the protection off.
The encrypted DNS protection changes DNS settings on your active physical network adapters, as described in section 4.
You can block or allow individual apps for capabilities such as camera, microphone, location, contacts and calendar. This changes that app's consent value in your user registry.
The app lists the programs set to start with Windows and lets you switch each on or off through the standard Windows startup approval setting. Entries for all users need the administrator step. It does not delete them.
Off until you turn it on. It uses the Windows startup task, which you can also switch off in Windows Settings.
It re-reads the protections it applied every few minutes, and sooner when the relevant registry keys or the hosts file change. Nothing runs after you exit the app.
Off until you turn it on in Settings.
The app can save a PDF report of your protection states, history and startup entries to a place you choose. It is not sent anywhere.
Requested only for the machine-wide steps above or when you choose to relaunch as administrator. You approve the Windows prompt yourself.
XLUNA Privacy Guard Pro is a general-audience utility. It is not directed at children under 13 and does not collect information from anyone.
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new "last updated" date, and it will keep the same principle: your data stays on your PC.
For privacy questions about XLUNA Privacy Guard Pro, contact XLUNA™ (Hasnain Butt Akhtar) at contact@xlunastudio.com or visit xlunastudio.com.
© 2026 XLUNA™. XLUNA Privacy Guard Pro and XLUNA™ are trademarks of Hasnain Butt Akhtar.