Privacy Policy

We collect minimal information necessary to deliver a trustworthy developer ecosystem and public discovery directory:

• Account Credentials: When you sign in via Google OAuth, we receive your verified email address, public profile name, and avatar image. We do not receive or store your Google passwords.
• Product & Tool Submissions: When submitting software to LaunchNests, we store public metadata you provide (tool name, tagline, description, website URL, tech stack, and logo).
• Community Engagement: Upvotes, likes, and bookmarks are tied to authenticated user IDs to protect against vote manipulation and maintain verified rankings.
• Technical & Telemetry Data: IP addresses, request user-agents, and visited endpoints are processed for rate-limiting, DDoS prevention, and performance monitoring.

Data collected by LaunchNests is utilized strictly for:

• Publishing and indexing developer tools, software products, and verified tech stacks.
• Calculating community momentum, leaderboard rankings, and freshness discovery windows.
• Delivering verification checks and promotional sponsorship placements.
• Serving machine-readable outputs to AI assistants, LLM pipelines, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) clients.
• Enforcing security guidelines and preventing spam or fraudulent submissions.

We utilize essential session cookies strictly to keep you authenticated across browser sessions. We do not use third-party tracking cookies or sell your browsing history to advertising data brokers.

Public tool descriptions, tags, and tech stack details are intentionally accessible to the public, search engines, and AI agents. We share non-public data exclusively with trusted cloud infrastructure providers that comply with strict privacy standards (cloud hosting, database storage, and secure payment processing). We never sell your personal data.

You retain full rights under GDPR and CCPA to request an export or complete deletion of your account and submitted data. To request data deletion or account removal, please reach out through our contact email below.