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Privacy Policy

Effective Date: October 16, 2026 · Canonical URL: https://craftingapps.app/privacy-policy

Welcome to CraftingApps ("we", "our", or "us"), accessible via https://craftingapps.app. Your privacy is paramount. This Privacy Policy outlines the types of information we collect, how we use and safeguard it, and your rights regarding your personal data in strict compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), and Google AdSense publisher policies.

1. Information We Collect and Process

CraftingApps operates strictly as an independent community directory, tracker, and documentation benchmark hub for open-source creative software.

No Account Registration: We do not require you to create an account, register, or provide personal credentials to browse our software comparisons, benchmarks, or documentation.
Server Log Files: Like standard web hosting infrastructures, our Cloudflare edge servers automatically record non-identifying technical metadata (including IP addresses, browser user-agent strings, referring URLs, timestamps, and request latency) solely for network security, DDoS mitigation, and CDN load distribution.
Local Storage: We may use browser localStorage or session storage solely to preserve your UI preferences (such as directory filter states, dark/light theme, and dismissed notification banners) directly on your local device. This data is never sent to our servers.

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2. Google AdSense & Advertising Disclosures

We partner with third-party vendors, including Google AdSense, to serve relevant advertisements when you visit our website. This disclosure satisfies Google's contractual advertising requirements:

Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies (including the DoubleClick cookie) to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this website or other websites across the internet.
Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to users based on their visits to our site and/or other sites on the Internet.
Opting Out of Personalized Advertising: Users may opt out of personalized advertising at any time by visiting Google Ads Settings (https://www.google.com/settings/ads). Alternatively, you can opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info/choices/.

3. Cookies and Web Beacons

A cookie is a small text string stored in your browser by websites you visit. Cookies help measure website traffic and ensure advertisements are not shown repeatedly. You can configure your browser to reject all cookies or notify you whenever a cookie is transmitted. Core browsing and reading of CraftingApps software reviews will continue to function seamlessly if cookies are disabled.

4. Embedded Content & YouTube Videos

Pages on this site may feature embedded video content (such as tutorials and workflow comparisons hosted on YouTube using privacy-enhanced mode youtube-nocookie.com). Embedded content from third-party platforms behaves exactly as if the visitor visited the third-party website, which may collect data about you, utilize cookies, and monitor your interaction with embedded material.

5. GDPR and CCPA Compliance Rights

Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), you enjoy statutory rights including the right to know what personal data is processed, request erasure, and opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information. Because CraftingApps does not maintain accounts, gather private user archives, or sell user records to data brokers, we do not monetize or exchange personal identifying information.

6. Contact & Privacy Officer

If you have questions, complaints, or inquiries regarding this Privacy Policy or advertising data practices, please reach out to our privacy desk at: [email protected].