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title: Privacy Policy
subtitle: Effective May 10, 2026
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## Overview

Murine Launcher is a free and open-source Android home screen launcher. It is designed to operate entirely offline and does not collect, transmit, or share any personal data whatsoever.

This privacy policy explains what information the app accesses, how it is used, and your rights as a user.

## Data Collection

**Murine Launcher does not collect any data.** Specifically:

- **No personal information** is collected, stored, or transmitted.
- **No analytics or telemetry** of any kind are included.
- **No advertising SDKs or tracking libraries** are bundled.
- **No network requests** are made by the app. Murine Launcher has no internet access permission.
- **No crash reports** are sent automatically.

## Permissions

Murine Launcher requests only the minimal permissions strictly necessary to function as a home screen launcher:

- **Home screen launcher** - required to act as your device's default launcher.
- **Wallpaper access** - required to display and set your wallpaper.
- **App list access** - required to display your installed applications.
- **Widget support** - required to host home screen widgets.
- **Notification badge access** - used to display unread notification counts on app icons, if supported by your device.

No permission is requested for internet access, location, camera, microphone, contacts, storage of personal files, or any other sensitive data.

## Local Data

Murine Launcher stores the following data **locally on your device only**, and never transmits it elsewhere:

- Your home screen layout (icon positions, folders, widgets).
- Launcher preferences and settings.
- Cached app icons and labels for performance.

All data is stored in the app's internal storage, accessible only by the app itself and not by other applications. No data is written to shared storage (such as Photos, Documents, or Downloads). This data is automatically deleted if you uninstall the app.

## Your Legal Rights

As Murine Launcher does not collect, store, or process any personal data, rights granted under privacy regulations such as the **GDPR** (EU), **CCPA** (California), and similar frameworks - including the right to Access, Rectification, Erasure, and Data Portability - are inherently satisfied, as there is no personal data to manage.

If you believe your rights have not been met, you are welcome to contact us or inspect the source code directly.

## Third-Party Services

Murine Launcher does not integrate with or send data to any third-party services, servers, or APIs.

## Children's Privacy

Murine Launcher does not collect any data from anyone, including children under the age of 13. The app is safe for users of all ages.

## Changes to This Policy

We believe that **your device is yours, and your data should stay on it.** This is not a temporary stance or a feature that may be removed in a future update. It is a foundational design decision.

If this privacy policy is ever updated, the changes will be reflected on this page with a new effective date. Any update will be driven by legal or regulatory requirements that we can stand behind, not by a change in the app's privacy-respecting behavior. The app will not be modified to introduce data collection, tracking, or unsolicited network communication of any kind. Any network functionality, if ever introduced, would only occur at the explicit and informed initiative of the user.

## Open Source

Murine Launcher is fully open source under the Apache 2.0 license. You can review the complete source code at any time to verify these claims:

[View source on GitHub](https://github.com/alesimula/Murine-launcher){:target="_blank" rel="noopener"}

Users can verify the absence of the `INTERNET` permission by inspecting the [`AndroidManifest-common.xml`](https://github.com/alesimula/Murine-launcher/blob/main/AndroidManifest-common.xml){:target="_blank" rel="noopener"} and [`AndroidManifest.xml`](https://github.com/alesimula/Murine-launcher/blob/main/AndroidManifest.xml){:target="_blank" rel="noopener"} in the source code.

## Contact

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or the app's data practices, <a href="#contact" onclick="openContactModal(); return false;">get in touch</a>.
