Privacy policy
1. Overview and contact information
Welcome to LarkLaunch (accessible at https://www.rankclash.xyz). This Privacy Policy explains what personal data we collect, why we collect it, who we share it with, and the choices you have when you browse LarkLaunch, create an account, launch products, post in the feed, send messages, or buy a plan. Please also review our Terms of Use.
LarkLaunch is operated by its founder, Peter Ishak, who is the data controller for the personal data described here. For any privacy question or request, email peterhabib.v@gmail.com or reach out on X at @peteriishak.
2. Information we collect
We only collect what we need to run LarkLaunch:
- Account information: your email address and, if you sign in with Google, your name and profile picture. Passwords are handled by our authentication provider and are never visible to us.
- Profile information: the name, username, bio, location, avatar, banner image and X or GitHub handles you choose to add.
- Product launches: product names, taglines, descriptions, website links, logos, screenshots, demo videos and categories you submit.
- Community activity: upvotes, comments, feed posts, replies, likes, poll votes, follows, and the images or videos you attach to posts.
- Direct messages: the text and images you send, and when each message was sent, delivered and read. Typing indicators are sent live to the other person and are never stored.
- Notifications: records of activity involving you (for example upvotes, replies, follows and announcements). When you are signed in and view another maker’s profile, that maker may be notified that you viewed it.
- Purchases: the plan or placement you bought, its status and dates. Card and billing details stay with our payment provider.
- Technical and usage data: a random visitor token stored in your browser, aggregate page-view statistics, and standard server logs (IP address, browser, device and referring page) used for security and abuse prevention.
Your profile, launches, comments, feed posts and replies are public. Direct messages are private and visible only to you and the other participant; message images are kept in private storage and served through short-lived links.
3. Google user data and OAuth compliance
LarkLaunch’s use and transfer of information received from Google APIs to any other app adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. Specifically:
- We only request basic sign-in scopes (
openid,email,profile). - We do not access your Google Drive, Gmail, contacts or calendar.
- We do not sell Google user data or share it with advertisers or data brokers.
- We do not use Google user data to train AI or machine-learning models.
4. How we use your information
We use your data to:
- Sign you in, keep your session active and secure your account.
- Show your profile, launches, posts and activity to the community.
- Count votes fairly, run the weekly leaderboards and prevent bot or duplicate voting.
- Deliver direct messages, delivery and read receipts, and notifications.
- Process purchases and activate the plans and placements you paid for.
- Send the emails described in section 5.
- Detect spam, fraud and abuse, and keep LarkLaunch reliable.
Where the GDPR applies, we rely on contract (to provide the service you signed up for), legitimate interests (security, abuse prevention, product improvement and the weekly digest), and legal obligations (for example tax records for purchases).
5. Emails and notifications
- Service emails such as sign-up confirmation, password reset, welcome, product-live confirmations, first-comment alerts and important service announcements (for example changes to a leaderboard week).
- Weekly digest with the top products of the week. Every digest contains a one-click unsubscribe link.
- In-app notifications for activity that involves you. They are only visible to you and you can clear them by reading them.
We never sell your email address or send third-party marketing on anyone else’s behalf.
8. Data retention and security
We keep your data for as long as your account is active. Content you delete is removed from LarkLaunch straight away; copies in infrastructure backups and logs expire on our providers’ standard retention schedules. Purchase records may be kept longer where tax or accounting law requires it.
Data is encrypted in transit (HTTPS) and at rest by our infrastructure providers, and access is restricted by row-level security so users can only read what they are allowed to. No system is perfectly secure, so please use a strong, unique password.
9. Your rights and account deletion
Depending on where you live (including under the GDPR and CCPA), you have the right to:
- Access and portability: request a copy of the data linked to your account.
- Correction: edit your profile and launches at any time from your account.
- Deletion: delete your account yourself from Settings → Account. This permanently removes your profile, launches, posts, comments and messages.
- Objection: unsubscribe from the weekly digest, restrict who can message you in Settings → Chat, or object to other processing by contacting us.
To exercise any right, email peterhabib.v@gmail.com from the address on your account. We respond within 30 days. You can also complain to your local data protection authority.
10. Children and international users
LarkLaunch is not intended for children. You must be at least 13 years old (or the minimum age in your country) to create an account, and we do not knowingly collect data from younger children. If you believe a child has created an account, contact us and we will delete it.
Our providers may process data in the United States, the European Union and other countries. Where required, transfers are protected by safeguards such as the EU Standard Contractual Clauses.
11. Changes to this policy
We may update this Privacy Policy as LarkLaunch evolves or laws change. The latest version is always on this page with its revision date, and we will notify you by email or in-app notification about material changes.