Privacy

SC Feed stores your preferences in your browser, and on your account if you sign in. We use Google Analytics and a self-hosted Umami for anonymous, aggregate usage stats (which pages get visited, roughly how many people use the app) — but we don't sell your data, don't run ads, and don't build a profile on you. Push notifications are optional and only sent for new feed activity.

SC Feed uses your browser's localStorage to remember preferences across visits. If you don't sign in, none of this leaves your computer. If you do, most of it is also saved to your account (see below).

• Layout — where each feed panel sits, its size, which feeds are visible, and your saved layout presets.
• Read state — which messages you've marked as read, plus your “mark all read” cutoff timestamp.
• Custom feeds — the YouTube channels, Twitch streamers, and RSS URLs you've added in Settings.
• Display preferences — theme (dark/light), tab bar visibility, date format, leak reveal toggle, OmniFeed source filters.
• GitHub widget cache — version/star/fork counts for the repo shown in the header, cached 1 hour to avoid re-hitting GitHub on every page load.
• PWA install dismissal — if you dismissed the install prompt, we remember not to show it again.
• Cookie acknowledgement — the fact that you clicked “Got it” on the storage notice.

• Push notifications (optional). If you enable them in Settings, your browser provides a push subscription endpoint from its push service (Firebase for Chrome/Edge, Mozilla autopush for Firefox, Apple push for Safari). We store this endpoint so we can deliver alerts. It's only used for SC Feed activity notifications. Toggle off in Settings → Push Notifications to stop.
• Your settings, if you sign in. When you're signed in, SC Feed keeps a copy of your layout, presets, display preferences, custom feeds and read state on our server, stored against your account email, so they follow you to other devices. It is only used for that. Signed-out visitors send nothing.
• Saved items, if you sign in. Links you save with the bookmark button or “Send to SC Feed” are stored against your account email so your Saved feed shows them.
• Standard web server logs. IP address, request path, timestamp. Used for debugging and abuse prevention. Rotated regularly. Not aggregated, not analyzed for marketing.

SC Feed uses Google Analytics 4 to understand how the app is used in aggregate — page views, rough visitor counts, browser and device type, approximate region. This helps decide what to build and fix next. Google sets a couple of cookies (_ga, _ga_*) and your browser loads its gtag.js script from googletagmanager.com.

We don't enable Google's advertising features, don't use it to build an advertising profile, and don't share the data with anyone. You can block it with most ad/tracker blockers or your browser's “Do Not Track” / privacy settings, and SC Feed will work exactly the same.

We also run Umami, an open-source analytics tool we host ourselves at stats.subliminal.gg. It records the same kind of aggregate numbers — page views, referrer, browser, device, screen size, approximate country, region and city — sets no cookies, and the data stays on our own server; it is never shared with Google or anyone else. Your browser loads it from SC Feed itself (/api/u/), and SC Feed passes your IP to it only so it can work out that location; Umami does not store the IP.

• No advertising networks, ad pixels, or retargeting
• No Google Analytics advertising features (no ad personalization, no Google Signals)
• No selling, sharing, renting, or licensing of any user data
• No fingerprinting, no cross-site tracking

SC Feed pulls public content from:

• Star Citizen Spectrum (Announcements, Patch Notes, MOTDs from public lobbies)
• Discord channels in publicly-listed Star Citizen community pipelines
• RSI status page
• YouTube channel RSS (Star Citizen + SubliminalsTV by default; you can add more)
• Twitch live status (SubliminalsTV by default; you can add more)
• Any RSS feeds you add yourself
• GitHub public REST API — used by the small repo widget in the header to show release version, stars, and forks. Your browser fetches api.github.com/repos/... and the result is cached in your localStorage for 1 hour.

When your browser loads images, video thumbnails, or audio attachments from these sources, the source server may see your IP address and standard browser headers. We don't add any extra tracking on top of those standard requests.

• Use your browser's “Clear site data” option for sc-feed.subliminal.gg.
• Or open DevTools → Application → Local Storage and clear entries prefixed sc-feed-.
• Or, for granular control, use the Settings panel inside SC Feed: remove individual custom feeds, mark all unread, or apply a layout preset.
• If you signed in, clearing your browser does not remove the copy on your account. To have it deleted, get in touch (below).

To stop push notifications: toggle off in Settings → Push Notifications, or revoke notification permission in your browser's site settings.

SC Feed is part of SubliminalsTV, a personal project. For questions or to request data deletion, reach out at sub@subliminal.gg.