Privacy Policy

Last updated September 24, 2026

This explains what IndieLaunch (indielaunch.dev) collects, why, and what you can do about it. We collect as little as we need to run the site, we don't sell your data, and we don't use advertising trackers.

1. What we collect

  • Account: your email address, and if you use Google, your name and profile picture.
  • Profile: anything you add in settings: username, display name, bio, website and X link. Your profile is public.
  • What you post: products you submit and comments. Both are public.
  • Payments: handled by Dodo Payments. We receive a payment reference and what was bought, never your card details.
  • Usage: counts of clicks on product websites and ads. To count each visitor once and to stop abuse, your IP address is used in short-lived rate-limit records that expire within a day.
  • Analytics: anonymous page-view statistics from Vercel Web Analytics (which pages are visited, and roughly from where). It sets no cookies and doesn't follow you across sites.
  • Cookies: only the ones that keep you signed in. No advertising or cross-site tracking cookies.

2. Why we use it

To run your account and the launch board, show your products and comments, process purchases, send the emails you'd expect (login codes, review results, receipts and ad confirmations), show makers and advertisers aggregate click counts, and protect the site from spam and fraud.

3. Your website

When you use auto-fill or badge verification, our server visits the public website you entered, identifying itself as IndieLaunchBot. Verified badges are re-checked about once a week. When you use AI import, we send the website address (and nothing about you) to our AI research provider, Exa, which reads the public site to fill in the form.

4. How long we keep it

Account data stays while your account exists. Launched products stay listed as part of the public archive unless you ask us to remove them. Payment records are kept as long as tax law requires. Rate-limit and login-code records expire on their own within a day.

5. Your choices and rights

You can edit your profile and products at any time. Email hello@indielaunch.dev to get a copy of your data, correct it, or delete your account and its data; we reply within 30 days. Depending on where you live, you may also have the right to object or complain to your data protection authority.

6. Children

IndieLaunch isn't for anyone under 16, and we don't knowingly collect their data.

7. Changes and contact

We'll update this page when anything changes; the date at the top shows the latest version. Questions: hello@indielaunch.dev.