Ecliptic Launcher Privacy Policy

The short version

• I do not run any servers for Ecliptic, and I receive no data from the app.
• The app has no accounts, no ads, no analytics, no crash reporting and no third-party code libraries.
• Almost everything the app does happens on your phone. The few things that use the internet are listed below. Each one goes only where it says.

1. Information the app uses on your phone only

This information is processed on your device. Ecliptic does not send it anywhere.

• Your installed apps. To show and open your apps, the launcher reads the list of apps that have a launcher icon (names and icons). Your menu layout (which apps are in which place) is saved in the app’s private storage.
• Private space. If your phone has an Android private space, and Ecliptic is your default home app, the launcher can show the apps in it, but only while you have unlocked it through Android’s own lock screen. This list is not saved.
• Notification access (optional). If you give Ecliptic notification access in Android Settings, it uses that access for two things only:
  • to show and control what is playing in media apps: title, artist, artwork, length, position, the up-next queue and the playing app’s name;
  • to show running timers and the stopwatch from your phone’s clock app.

  Android delivers all notifications to apps with this access. Ecliptic ignores every notification except the clock app’s, and does not store or send any of them. You can turn the access off at any time in Android Settings, and the playback card then stops working.

• Next alarm. The launcher asks Android when your next alarm rings, so it can show it.
• Quick search. What you type in the quick search is processed on your phone (apps, calculator, conversions, settings shortcuts). It is not saved. If you tap COPY, the result goes to your clipboard.
• Settings. Your layout, sizes and other settings are saved in the app’s private storage.

2. When information leaves your phone

a. Exchange rates (automatic, no personal data)

To convert currencies in the quick search, the app downloads the European Central Bank’s reference rates from frankfurter.dev (api.frankfurter.dev). It does this at most about every 12 hours, when you open the quick search. The request contains no information about you or what you typed. Like any internet request, it reveals your IP address and a standard technical header (your Android version and device model) to that service. The rates are saved on your phone. See frankfurter.dev for how that service handles requests.

b. Searches you choose to send (only when you tap)

• WEB (or Enter, when nothing on your phone matches) opens your default browser with a search for the text you typed, on the search engine you chose in the app’s settings (DuckDuckGo unless you change it; the others offered are Google, Startpage, Brave and Bing). That engine’s privacy policy, and your browser’s, apply to the search.
• CLAUDE is off unless you turn it on in the app’s settings. When it is on and you tap it, it shares the text you typed with the Claude app, or opens claude.ai with it if the app is not installed. Anthropic’s privacy policy applies.
• Opening a web address you typed opens it in your default browser.

Nothing is sent unless you tap one of these. Ecliptic only hands the text to your browser or the other app; it does not send it anywhere itself.

c. Android backup

Android may back up the app’s private storage to your Google account, or copy it to a new phone when you transfer your data. This is Android’s own backup feature, controlled in your phone’s settings. It may include your settings. Google stores these backups in your Google account. On Android 9 and later, the backups are encrypted end to end when your phone has a screen lock. I cannot access them.

3. What I do not do

• I do not collect, receive, sell or share your personal information.
• No advertising, tracking, profiling, analytics or crash reports.
• No location, contacts, messages, camera, microphone or files are accessed.

4. Security

• All data the app keeps is stored in its private storage on your phone. Android keeps this storage from other apps.
• Your phone’s screen lock and encryption protect the data stored on it. Anyone who can unlock your phone can see what the launcher shows.

5. Keeping and deleting your information

• Data on your phone stays until you change it, clear it, or uninstall the app. To delete all of it, go to Android Settings → Apps → Ecliptic → Storage → Clear storage, or uninstall the app.
• To remove Android backups, use your Google account’s backup settings.
• I hold no data about you from the app, so there is nothing for me to delete. If you email me, I keep the email only as long as I need it to answer you, and then delete it within 12 months.

6. Children

Ecliptic is not directed at children under 13, and it does not knowingly collect information from anyone.

7. Your rights (EU / GDPR)

Because the app sends me nothing, I hold no personal data about you from it. If you contact me by email, I process your address and message to answer you (GDPR Article 6(1)(f), my legitimate interest in replying). Mail to the address below is received by Cloudflare’s Email Routing service, which forwards it to my personal mailbox; Cloudflare handles it only to deliver it. It is then stored by my email provider. Both act on my behalf. For that data you have the right to access, correct and delete it, to restrict its use and to object. You can also complain to a data protection authority. In Poland this is the President of the Personal Data Protection Office (Prezes Urzędu Ochrony Danych Osobowych, UODO), ul. Stanisława Moniuszki 1A, 00-014 Warszawa, https://uodo.gov.pl.

8. Changes to this policy

If the app starts to handle information differently, I will update this policy, change the effective date above, and describe important changes in the app’s release notes.

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