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, as plain integers. That is a page view, a download-button click, a GitHub-button click, and the mobile-to-PC handoff actions. The server reads no IP address, user agent, cookie, or referrer. When a browser reports itself as automated (a search crawler or a headless test browser), its page view is counted as a separate robot event and its clicks are not counted at all. Your browser makes that check itself, so nothing extra is sent. - Which channel a click came from. Download and GitHub clicks are counted against a
single word describing how the visit started, chosen by your browser from a fixed list
(
direct,google,reddit,githuband a handful more), with anything unrecognised recorded asother. The page you came from is never sent and never stored, only that word. It is kept for the tab's session insessionStorageso a click is credited to where the visit started rather than to the last page you were on; it is not a cookie, it contains no identifier, and it is gone when you close the tab. What ends up in storage is a count per event, per channel, per day, and nothing per visitor. - 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. The one thing it does keep in your browser is the single channel
word described above, in sessionStorage for the life of the tab. It is not sent to any third
party and cannot be used to recognise you.
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.