Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 1, 2026

Hotfork is a local-first iOS application. This policy describes how the app, published by ZORDON INTELLIGENCE SPÓŁKA Z OGRANICZONĄ ODPOWIEDZIALNOŚCIĄ (the “company”, “we”, “us”), handles information when you use it.

TL;DR

Hotfork collects almost nothing. There is no account, no sign-in and no profiling of you. Your bookmarks and search history stay on your device only. When you open a trend range or run a search, the app requests public repository data over HTTPS from our own aggregation service, which reads GitHub’s public API — the same public information your browser sees at github.com/trending. Two things are handled by Google: one non-personalized ad banner inside the iOS app (Google AdMob) and anonymous traffic statistics on this website (Google Analytics). Both are described in section 3.

1. Who we are

Hotfork is provided by:

2. Data we do not collect

Because the app runs locally, there is no personal data to speak of. Specifically:

3. Advertising and website analytics

In the app — Google AdMob. Hotfork is free and shows a single banner ad at the bottom of the Trending list. Ads are served by Google Mobile Ads (AdMob), a service of Google Ireland Limited / Google LLC. To deliver and measure an ad, Google may process technical information about your device: a device identifier, ad-related usage data (that an ad was requested, served or interacted with) and coarse, IP-derived location. We request non-personalized ads only — the app does not use the advertising identifier (IDFA), does not ask for App Tracking Transparency permission, and does not combine your data with data from other apps or websites for advertising. Where the law requires it (EEA, UK, Switzerland), a Google-certified consent form (Google User Messaging Platform) appears before the first ad is requested, and you can change or withdraw that choice later in the app or in your device settings. Google’s own handling of this data is described in the Google Privacy & Terms and in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.

On this website — Google Analytics. The hotfork.space landing site uses Google Analytics 4 to count visits in aggregate (pages viewed, referrer, approximate country). It sets analytics cookies and never receives your bookmarks or anything you do inside the app.

What we never receive. We receive no personal data from either service — only aggregate numbers, such as how many ads were shown or how many people visited a page. We never sell data.

4. What the app does with your data

The only information the app touches is the feed of public repositories returned by our aggregation service (public GitHub data). Repository data is public information about software projects — not information about you. Your bookmarks and search history are stored on your device (in SwiftData) and are never transmitted to us or to any server we control.

Because we never receive your data, we do not process, sell, share, or retain anything that could identify you. There is nothing to export, correct, or delete on our side.

5. Requests to our service and GitHub

When you open a trend range (daily, weekly, monthly) or perform a search, Hotfork sends a standard HTTPS request to our own aggregation service, which in turn reads GitHub’s public API. This behaves like any normal HTTP request from your device: our service and GitHub may see your IP address and the request path under their own privacy policies (our service processes these requests transiently; GitHub describes its handling in its Privacy Statement, which we do not control). Hotfork does not send your bookmarks, your name, or any other personal data with those requests.

6. Children’s privacy

Hotfork is a general-audience app and is not directed at children. As the app collects no personal information at all, there is no personal data from children that we could retain. There is nothing in the app designed to attract children to provide information.

7. Cookies

The iOS app does not use cookies. This website uses cookies for the analytics described in section 3. (The web hosting platform may also apply its own essential HTTP infrastructure, which is not under our control and is used solely to deliver the pages you request.)

8. Legal basis (GDPR / RODO)

This app is used within the European Economic Area, where the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”, implemented in Polish law as RODO) applies. We ourselves collect and process no personal data, so no legal basis is required for our own processing. For the Google services described in section 3, our basis is your consent where the law requires it (the ad consent form in the EEA, UK and Switzerland, and analytics cookies) and otherwise our legitimate interest in keeping the app free and understanding aggregate traffic (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). You can withdraw consent at any time — in the app’s consent options, in your device settings, or by blocking cookies in your browser.

9. Your rights

Under GDPR you have rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, and objection. Because Hotfork holds no personal data about you, most of these rights have nothing to act on; if you have any question, contact us below.

10. Data retention

We retain nothing ourselves. On-device data (bookmarks, search history) is kept as long as you choose to keep it and is destroyed when you delete the app. Google retains ad and analytics data according to its own policies (see section 3).

11. Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the new version will be published at this address with an updated “Last updated” date. Material changes will be highlighted when the change is announced.

12. Contact

For privacy questions, contact us at hi@zordonintelligence.pl or by post to our registered office in Poland. You may also contact the Polish data-protection supervisory authority (UODO) with a complaint.