Privacy policy
Last updated: November 11, 2026
Cecil Desktop works on your computer: no account, no analytics, no tracking. This page lists everything the app sends over the Internet, and why.
Data controller: Aperture Lab, sole proprietorship of Arnaud Ligny, Montreuil, France. Contact: contact@aperturelab.fr.
What stays on your computer
- Your sites and their files.
- The data of the app (list of sites, history of builds and publications, settings), in a local database.
- The tokens of your publication accounts, encrypted with the keychain of the system.
What the app sends
| When | What | To |
|---|---|---|
| You publish a site | The files of the site and the token of the account | The provider you chose (Netlify, Vercel, GitHub, Amazon S3…) |
| You install a theme | Requests for the theme | Packagist and the host of the theme (e.g. GitHub) |
| The app checks for updates | The requested files, your IP address | desktop.cecil.app (Netlify, Cloudflare R2) |
| You activate, check or deactivate a license (Pro) | The license key, its activation id, the name of the computer and its system | desktop.cecil.app, then Polar |
| You send feedback (Help › Send feedback) | The title and the description, your e-mail address if you give it, the versions (app, Cecil, PHP), the system and the language; the logs only if you check them, shown before sending, with your home folder hidden | desktop.cecil.app, which files it in a private GitHub repository |
desktop.cecil.app keeps your IP address for a short time to limit the number of requests (protection against abuse); it keeps nothing else.
When you buy a license, Polar collects the data needed for the purchase (name, e-mail address, payment): see its privacy policy.
This website
This website uses no cookies and no analytics. Its host, Netlify, keeps technical logs (IP address, pages requested).
Processors
- Netlify: hosting of this website and of its functions (license, feedback).
- Cloudflare: storage of the installers and updates.
- Polar: sale of the licenses.
- GitHub: feedback.
Retention
- Feedback: kept until the issue it created is closed, then deleted or anonymized.
- License: the activations are kept as long as the license is active. Polar keeps the data of the purchases for the time required by law.
Your rights
Under the GDPR, you can access, correct or delete your data, and object to its processing: write to contact@aperturelab.fr. You can also lodge a complaint with the CNIL.