The app
SimLauncher, the Windows application, collects no telemetry or analytics and has no accounts. Your profiles, launch order, delays, and settings stay on your PC. The only network requests it makes are to GitHub, to check for and download app updates. The full source is public under GPL v3, so you can verify exactly what it does.
This website
simlauncher.com is a static site hosted on Cloudflare Pages. A few things happen behind the scenes here, stated plainly:
- An anonymous event counter. A same-origin endpoint (
/api/count) counts a small, allow-listed set of page events, like a download-button click or a mobile-to-PC handoff action, as plain integers. It reads no IP address, user agent, cookie, or referrer, and it stores nothing that identifies a visitor: just a running total and a per-day bucket, per event name. - Live GitHub API calls. Your browser talks directly to GitHub's public API to show the current star count and, on some pages, the latest release version. That request goes straight from your browser to GitHub and is governed by GitHub's own privacy policy, not ours.
- Cloudflare Web Analytics. This site's security policy allows Cloudflare's own privacy-focused Web Analytics beacon, which Cloudflare states does not use cookies or track individuals across sites.
- Standard hosting logs. Like any website, requests to this site pass through Cloudflare's network, which may process standard technical request data (such as IP address) to serve pages and protect against abuse, under Cloudflare's own privacy policy.
Cookies
This site sets no cookies of its own.
Third parties
GitHub hosts the source code, the releases, and the download and star data shown on this site. Cloudflare hosts and serves the site itself, along with the anonymous counter and analytics beacon described above.
Contact
Questions about any of this? Open a GitHub issue - that's the support channel for both the app and this website - or email [email protected]. See the about page for who builds SimLauncher.