Privacy, in plain language.

Apps

Shadowfetch apps are published on the App Store by Robert Corbin. They are designed as small, single-purpose tools: typically a one-time purchase, no account, no telemetry, and no ads. Data you enter stays on your device unless an app’s own App Store privacy label or in-app copy says otherwise for a specific feature you choose to use.

Open source

Open source, including Shadowfetch Linux, lives atwww.shadowfetchlinux.org/open-source. The signed APT repository and ISO files remain at their existingwww.shadowfetch.com/linux/apt/addresses so installed machines keep updating.

This website

You can read the site without registering. Cloudflare delivers and protects it, and in doing so processes ordinary technical records such as request time, page path, and coarse network metadata for security and reliability. Those records are not used to build a reading profile of you.

Two measurement services run on this site. Cloudflare Web Analyticsreports the path you loaded, the page you arrived from, a random identifier generated fresh for that single page load, and how long the page took to render. It sets no cookie and writes nothing to storage on your device, so it cannot recognise you on the next page or on your next visit. The query string is stripped before anything is sent, which is why what you type into the search box is never part of the measurement.

PostHog records page views and when you leave a page, so we can see which catalog pages people use. It loads from PostHog’s US region (us.i.posthog.com and us-assets.i.posthog.com). Person profiles are created only after someone is identified; ordinary browsing does not create a person profile. PostHog may store a first-party identifier in your browser so repeat visits from the same browser can be counted together. It is not used for advertising.

This website runs no advertising. There are no ad networks, no ad cookies, and no third-party ad measurement.

When enabled, our App Store click counter records daily totals by public page and app. This counter stores no IP addresses, cookies, visitor identifiers, search text or full link addresses. It respects Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control signals. Counts describe link activations, not unique people, downloads or purchases; repeated clicks can count more than once. The former public visitor counter has been retired.

Shadowfetch does not run Google Analytics. If you choose Dark or Light in the footer, the site stores that single preference as sf-theme in your browser’s local storage so it can use the same theme next time. That theme value is not sent to Shadowfetch and is not used as an advertising identifier.

If you arrive from one of our own sites or videos through a link tagged withutm_source, the site keeps that source name (for exampleyoutube) as sf-src in your browser’s session storage for the current tab, and adds it to App Store links so Apple can tell us which of our sites the download came from. It is the same label for everyone who used that link, it is cleared when the tab closes, and it is not used for advertising.

Optional contributions or App Store purchases are handled by those providers under their own terms; Shadowfetch does not receive your card number.

Email and support

If you write to shadowfetch@shadowfetch.com, we keep the message long enough to answer it and to maintain a minimal record of the request. Do not send passwords, private keys, or recovery phrases. The site does not operate a mailing-list subscription.

Your choices

Questions about privacy, a support thread, or deletion of an email you sent can go to shadowfetch@shadowfetch.com. Material changes to this page will be dated here. For how the studio uses AI tooling in its own workflow, see the AI disclosure.