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Aphelion

Privacy

This page covers the Aphelion website and the Aphelion Editor desktop application. The short version is that neither one collects personal data.

Summary
  • No accounts, no sign-in and no contact forms.
  • No cookies, no analytics and no advertising scripts.
  • The website reads public GitHub data on the server, not from your browser.
  • The editor runs locally, ships no telemetry and keeps your files on your machine.

This website

  • The site sets no cookies and writes nothing to browser storage. There is no analytics, advertising or session-recording code on any page.
  • Release lists and documentation are read from the public GitHub API when a page is rendered. Those requests are made by the server, so your IP address and browser are not sent to GitHub by visiting a page.
  • The site is hosted on Vercel. Vercel keeps standard request logs for every deployment, which can include an IP address, a user agent and the requested path. Those logs are used for operations, capacity and abuse prevention. Vercel's handling of them is described in the Vercel privacy policy.
  • Builds and documentation links point at github.com. Once you follow one of those links, GitHub's own practices apply. See the GitHub privacy statement.

The desktop application

  • The editor runs entirely on your computer. Projects, media references, preferences, logs and plugins are written to the locations you choose and are never uploaded.
  • There is no telemetry, crash reporting, usage counting or update check. The editor does not contact a server on its own.
  • Media decoding, the video encoder and the plugin runtime are bundled with the application. Nothing needs to be downloaded at run time.
  • If you install a plugin written by someone else, that plugin runs in the same process and can do whatever its author wrote. Install plugins from sources you trust.

Changes and contact

If any of the above changes, this page will be updated before the change ships. Questions about this policy can go in the issue tracker for aphelion-engine/aphelion-editor.

Last updated 9 September 2026.