Privacy

CustomDroid is a directory you can use without an account, without logging in, and without us building a profile of you. We collect as little as possible. Here's exactly what that means.

No accounts, no tracking cookies

There are no user accounts and we don't set advertising or cross-site tracking cookies. You can browse and search the whole site anonymously.

Analytics

We use a self-hosted instance of Umami, a privacy-friendly analytics tool. It is cookieless and records only aggregated, anonymous page-view data (such as which pages are popular and rough referrer and country information). It does not track you across other websites and we cannot use it to identify you.

Search queries

When you search, we store the normalised query text and a count, in aggregate — one row per distinct query — so we can see which phones people look for and which return no results (this drives the most-wanted list). These records are not linked to you or your device.

“Request a ROM”

Pressing “Want a ROM here” on a phone with no custom ROM increments a public counter for that device. We store the count only — no personal information is collected.

Server logs

Like any website, our hosting provider processes standard request data (including IP addresses) transiently to serve pages and guard against abuse. We don't use this for analytics or build it into profiles.

Links to other sites

ROM listings link out to each project's own website, download and donation pages. Once you follow a link, that site's own privacy policy applies — we have no control over it.

Questions

Anything unclear, or want data about your searches removed? Get in touch.