Privacy Policy

The short version

LaunchGate has no account, no analytics, no telemetry and no server of ours to talk to. We do not collect, receive, store or transmit any personal information about you. There is nothing for us to sell, share or lose, because nothing reaches us in the first place.

The one network request it makes

LaunchGate's whole job is deciding whether the network actually works yet. To do that it makes a single unauthenticated HTTP request to a connection-test URL and checks whether it gets an answer.

By default that URL is Apple's own captive-portal endpoint,https://captive.apple.com/hotspot-detect.html, the same one macOS itself uses to detect a Wi-Fi login page. You can change it to any URL you prefer in Settings, including one you host.

The request carries no identifier of you or your Mac beyond what any HTTP request necessarily reveals to the host you contacted — and it is sent with an ephemeral session, so no cookies or cached data persist between checks. Whoever operates that URL sees a request; we do not.

What stays on your Mac

Your list of managed apps, their launch delays, your gate settings and the history of past login runs are written to your own~/Library/Application Support/LaunchGate/folder and its log in ~/Library/Logs/.

These never leave your machine. Deleting the app and those folders removes everything LaunchGate ever stored.

Software updates

LaunchGate checks for updates usingSparkle, which requests an update feed from launchgate.dev. As with any web request, our host sees the request and your IP address. We do not use that to build a profile of you, and you can switch automatic checks off in Settings.

What LaunchGate can see on your Mac

To do its job the app reads your installed applications and your macOS Login Items, so it can offer you a list to choose from and warn you when an app is set to start before the gate can hold it. That reading happens entirely on your Mac and is never transmitted.

Children

LaunchGate is a general-purpose utility, is not directed at children, and collects no information from anyone.

Changes

If this policy ever changes, the revised version will be posted here with a new date. Because the app collects nothing, we do not expect material change.

Contact

Questions about this policy, or about anything else — write toinfo@vohux.com. A real person reads and replies.

LaunchGate is made by Vohux Inc., Ontario, Canada.