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Effective 11 October 2026

Privacy policy

This page covers the website (grimoiremods.com) and the apt repo (apt.grimoiremods.com). The Grimoire app has its own page, what leaves your machine, which lists every request the app can make.

The short version

  • We don't run analytics, ads or tracking scripts, and the site has no accounts or forms.
  • Cloudflare hosts the site, so it sees your requests, like any web host would.
  • Cloudflare adds a bot check to each page, and it sets one short-lived cookie.
  • The 1996 version of the site saves a few settings in your browser. They stay there.
  • The numbers on the homepage come from public download counts, not from you.
  • We don't sell or share anything.

What we collect

Nothing of our own. There's no analytics, no tracking pixel, no form and no account. The pages are plain files.

What Cloudflare sees

The site and the apt repo run on Cloudflare. Every request goes through them, so they see your IP address, your browser's user agent and the page you asked for. Cloudflare's privacy policy covers what they do with it.

Through Cloudflare, we can see two things:

  • Traffic totals: how many requests, how much data, and which countries they came from. These are totals, not a list of visitors.
  • Request logs for the few parts of the site that run code: the download badges, the "page not found" page and the apt repo. Each log entry has the address that was asked for, the response code, the request headers (which include your IP address and user agent) and the country and city Cloudflare thinks the request came from. Ordinary page views are plain files and don't create these logs. Cloudflare deletes the logs within 7 days. We only use them to fix problems.

The bot check

Cloudflare's Bot Fight Mode is on for this site. It adds a small Cloudflare script to every page, loaded from grimoiremods.com/cdn-cgi/challenge-platform/. The script checks that your browser acts like a real browser and not a bot, then saves the result in a cookie called cf_clearance, which lasts about 15 minutes. This is Cloudflare's script, not ours. We don't get the data it collects. It's the only cookie the site sets.

What the apt repo counts

The apt repo keeps one set of totals per day: how many times its signing key was downloaded (a new setup), how many update checks came in, how many times the package list was downloaded, and how many packages were downloaded (split by version and CPU type). It looks at the user agent only to leave bots out of the count, and doesn't save it. It never saves IP addresses or anything else about a single request.

What's saved in your browser

The 1996 version of the site, and the egg in the footer that takes you there, save a few settings in your browser's local storage. They stay on your device and are never sent to a server. Clearing this site's data in your browser removes them.

  • grimoire.era: which version of the 1996 site you were last on
  • grimoire.sound: whether the 1996 radio is on or off
  • geo-muted: whether you pressed STOP DA MUSIC
  • geo-calm: whether you pressed STOP DA FLASHING
  • grimoire-kitty: which cat chases your cursor
  • geo-souls: the visit counter on the 1996 page (it only counts your own visits)

Other sites your browser talks to

The site doesn't load anything from other sites. Fonts are hosted here, and there are no embeds and no CDNs. Your browser only contacts another site when you do something that needs it:

  • Downloads come from GitHub or from apt.grimoiremods.com. GitHub keeps a public download count for each file.
  • Links to GitHub, Discord, GameBanana and the AUR take you to those sites, and their own privacy policies apply there.
  • The 1996 radio. On the 1996 version, sound starts after your first click or key press. The music streams straight from the station: SomaFM, Kohina, laut.fm, Nightride or Plaza One. While Plaza One is playing, the page also asks Plaza which song is on. The station sees your IP address, like any stream would. Turn the sound off with the ♪ button or STOP DA MUSIC, and nothing is requested.

Where the homepage numbers come from

The app doesn't send us usage data. The numbers on the homepage come from public counters that GitHub and GameBanana keep, and the site reads them when it's built. None of them are about you. The homepage rounds each one down, so 108k+ means at least 108,000. Hover over a number to see it in full.

  • Downloads adds up GitHub's download count for every installer and GameBanana's download count. GitHub's count includes the installer the app downloads when it updates itself, so this counts downloads, not people.
  • Weekly users takes a recent release that was the newest version for about a week (4 to 10 days) and counts how many times its installers were downloaded. Each machine downloads a version once, whether it's a new install or an update, so this is roughly the number of machines that opened Grimoire that week. It misses apt, AUR and Flatpak installs (they update through their package manager) and anyone who didn't update, so the real number is higher.
  • Daily launches comes from the update check. Each time the app starts, it downloads a small file from GitHub that says what the latest version is. It does this twice per start, and GitHub counts every download. We take that count for the newest release, divide by the days since it came out, divide by two, and round down to the nearest hundred. This counts launches, not people.

Changes

If anything here changes, we'll update this page and the date at the top.

Contact

Questions, or something here looks wrong? Open an issue on GitHub or ask in the Discord.