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Privacy Policy

Last updated: 23 September 2026

The short version

EveDeck is a desktop application that runs entirely on your own PC. It has no user accounts, no sign-up, and no analytics or telemetry of any kind. The EveDeck project operates no server that stores anything about you. Your settings, logs, and any EVE Online character data the app fetches stay on your computer.

What EveDeck stores on your computer

  • Settings — your layouts, seat assignments, hotkeys, and preferences, in a settings.json file under %LOCALAPPDATA%\EveDeck.
  • Application logs — a plain-text diagnostic log, also under %LOCALAPPDATA%\EveDeck, used for troubleshooting. It is never uploaded anywhere.
  • EVE character access tokens — only if you choose to link a character (see below). These are encrypted with the Windows Data Protection API (DPAPI) and are scoped to your Windows user account, so they cannot be read by another user or on another machine.
  • Cached character portraits — images downloaded from the EVE Online image server so they do not have to be re-fetched.

You can delete all of it at any time by removing the %LOCALAPPDATA%\EveDeck folder.

What EveDeck reads on your computer

EveDeck reads the chat and game log files that the EVE Online client itself writes to your Documents\EVE\logs folder. This is how it shows which solar system a character is in, how game-event and chat alerts work, and where the intel feed comes from (only the intel channels you pick). These files are read only — EveDeck never modifies them, and their contents are never sent to the internet. The one exception you control is the optional intel LAN page described below, which shows the intel feed to your own devices on your own network.

EveDeck reads the titles and window positions of running applications to place windows, and shows live thumbnail previews of your EVE clients using Windows' own DWM thumbnail feature. Previews are displayed on your screen in real time and are never recorded, saved, or transmitted.

Network connections

EveDeck connects to the following, and nothing else:

  • login.eveonline.com — only when you choose to link an EVE character, using Fenris Creations' official OAuth (PKCE) sign-in flow. EveDeck never sees, handles, or stores your EVE username or password. You sign in on their own page and EveDeck receives only an access token.
  • esi.evetech.net and images.evetech.net — Fenris Creations' official API and image servers, for character names, portraits, and (if you enable the info flyout) live per-character data like wallet balance, location, and skill training. The intel feed also looks up the public character IDs, portraits and ship icons of pilots named in intel reports. This data goes directly from Fenris Creations to your PC.
  • api.github.com — to check whether a newer version of EveDeck exists and to read the public release notes shown in the What's New window. No sign-in, and the request carries no information about you or your characters.
  • github.com — only when you click Update now in the installer version, to download the new installer from EveDeck's GitHub release. The file is checked against the SHA-256 checksum GitHub publishes for it and is only run if it matches. In the portable version, Download opens the release page in your own browser instead.
  • zkillboard.com — only if you switch on the danger indicator in the info flyout or the seat health alerts, to look up public kill activity for a solar system or a character. zKillboard is a third-party community site, not run by Fenris Creations or by EveDeck. Pilot names in the intel feed link to zKillboard too, but those links only open in your browser when you click one.
  • Your own local network — only if you turn on the intel LAN page. EveDeck then listens on your PC (port 31337) so a tablet or phone on the same network can show the intel feed. By default a device must first sign in with EVE using one of the characters you have linked in EveDeck; EveDeck checks that sign-in itself, on your PC, without contacting any server. The feed never leaves your network.

When a tablet or phone signs in to the LAN page, that device's browser — not EveDeck — briefly visits intel.evedeck.space to complete the EVE login. That site stores nothing; see its privacy note. The EveDeck desktop app itself never connects to evedeck.space or intel.evedeck.space.

As with any request to any website, these connections necessarily reveal your IP address and the version of EveDeck making the request to the server being contacted. Versions of EveDeck before 1.57.0 checked for updates at evedeck.space instead; that server keeps standard web server access logs, which are used only to keep the service running and are not combined with anything else or used to build a profile of you. Requests to Fenris Creations' servers are governed by the EVE Online privacy policy, and downloads by GitHub's.

What EveDeck does to your system

EveDeck is a window manager. It moves, resizes, and focuses windows belonging to other applications, and it can remove or restore a window's title bar and borders when you ask it to. It does not install drivers or services, does not modify system settings outside its own configuration, and does not read the memory of, inject code into, or send synthetic input to any other process. Registering global hotkeys and reading window titles are the extent of its interaction with other programs.

The portable build is removed by deleting its folder, the installer build through Add or remove programs, and the Microsoft Store build through Windows. In every case EveDeck's own settings live in %LOCALAPPDATA%\EveDeck and go when that folder does.

What EveDeck does not do

  • No accounts, sign-up, or profiles.
  • No analytics, telemetry, crash reporting, advertising, or tracking of any kind.
  • No selling or sharing of data with anyone — there is no data collected to sell.
  • No storage of EVE Online passwords. EveDeck never handles them.
  • No reading of EVE Online game memory, and no injecting anything into the game client.
  • No recording, saving, or uploading of screen content or previews.

Children

EveDeck is a utility for EVE Online players and is not directed at children under 13. It collects no personal information from anyone, including children.

Your rights

Because EveDeck stores everything locally and the project holds no data about you, there is no account to access, export, or delete. Removing the %LOCALAPPDATA%\EveDeck folder, and uninstalling the app, removes everything EveDeck has stored. You can revoke EveDeck's access to an EVE character at any time from the third-party application settings in your EVE Online account management, independently of this app.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the date at the top of this page will be updated. Material changes will also be noted in the release notes.

Contact

Questions about this policy, or about privacy in EveDeck, can be raised at github.com/EveDeck/EveDeck/issues.