Privacy Policy

The short version

The Litcat desktop application does not collect, transmit, or store any personal data on our servers. Your library catalog, patron records, and circulation history live entirely on your computer in a local SQLite database. The app does not phone home, does not track usage, and does not contain any analytics.

What the app does

Litcat makes outbound network requests for two purposes only:

• ISBN/metadata lookups — when you add a book, the app may query Open Library (openlibrary.org) or Google Books to retrieve title, author, cover image, and other metadata. These requests include only the ISBN or title you're looking up. They are governed by Open Library's and Google's own privacy policies.
• Nothing else. There is no telemetry, no crash reporting, no feature-flag service, and no analytics SDK in the app.

License purchases

If you purchase Litcat Pro, your payment is processed by Lemon Squeezy. We receive your email address and order ID from Lemon Squeezy in order to generate and deliver your license key. We store the following in our own database solely to support your license:

• Email address
• Order ID
• License tier (e.g. "pro")
• Issue date and valid-through date

Your license key is delivered by email via Resend. We retain the above data for as long as you hold a valid license, and for a reasonable period afterward to handle support and refund requests. We do not sell or share this data with any third party for marketing purposes.

This website

The litcat.app website is a static site hosted on Cloudflare Pages. It does not set cookies, does not run JavaScript analytics, and does not collect form submissions. Cloudflare may log basic access metadata (IP address, timestamp, page requested) in accordance with their own privacy policy.

Contact

Questions about this policy: support@litcat.app.