Privacy policy
There is no sign-up. This explains the information used for saved selections, download-request counts, contact handling and advertising.
There are no accounts
There is no sign-up. We never ask for a name or a phone number, and an email address only if you choose to give one when writing to us.
Your selection stays in your browser
Which programs you picked is stored inside your browser only (local storage). It does not appear on your other devices, and clearing browser data removes it. The one exception is the moment you press download, when the program names are sent for the count described below.
The script is assembled in your browser
The install script is built inside your browser. What you selected never passes through our servers.
Installer files come straight from the vendors
Running the script connects your PC directly to each vendor’s servers to download. At that point, that company’s privacy policy applies.
Sharing the URL shares your selection
Your selection is also encoded in the page address. Sending that address to someone passes along which programs you chose.
Counting downloads
We count how many times each program has been taken from here. It shows which entries people actually use, and it tells us where to spend the effort of keeping the data accurate.
- Pressing download sends the program names and nothing else. Who pressed it is not recorded.
- To reduce duplicate requests within a day, we store a hash of the IP, browser information, date and program ID. Older entries are deleted when a subsequent count lookup reaches the database. This hash does not guarantee complete anonymity.
- The download-count tables do not store raw IP addresses. Contact rate limiting uses IP addresses separately as described below.
- The resulting numbers are published openly on the program pages. Nothing here is held back.
Advertising
This site carries Google AdSense advertising to cover running costs. In exchange, we never slip ad-supported programs into the install list and never place an ad beside a download button.
- Google and its partners use cookies to serve ads. What you have browsed before can change which ads you see.
- We neither receive, see, nor store that data. It is handled by Google inside the ad slot.
- Personalised ads can be turned off at adssettings.google.com. Ads still appear afterwards; they simply stop being tailored.
- Visitors from the EEA, the UK and Switzerland are asked for consent before ads load. Declining leaves the site fully usable and serves non-personalised ads instead.
- Blocking cookies in your browser does not break anything on this site.
What the contact form sends
Anything written in the contact dialog arrives in our mailbox. A reply address, if you give one, is used only to answer you. It is not passed on or used for advertising.
- To limit contact submissions to five per IP per day, Cloudflare KV stores a key containing the IP and date, plus the submission count. It expires within 48 hours of the last write.
- Messages are not kept once they have been answered.
- You can skip the form and write to hello@afterformat.com directly.
Contact
Questions about this document can go to hello@afterformat.com.