Meridian Launcher — Privacy Policy
Last updated: August 5, 2026
Short version: Meridian collects nothing. There are no analytics, no advertising, no trackers, and no accounts. Your layout, settings, and everything else stay on your device. The only network requests the app can make are two features that are off by default, and they are described below.
Data we collect
None. Meridian has no analytics or telemetry of any kind, no crash reporting service, no advertising SDKs, and no third-party SDKs that phone home. We cannot see how you use the app, and we do not want to.
Data stored on your device
Your home-screen layout, folders, settings, icon customizations, and optional local backups are stored only on your device. If you choose a backup folder, backups are also written there. Crash logs (if the app ever crashes) are written only to the app's private storage and are never transmitted; they exist solely so the launcher can recover itself.
Optional network features (off by default)
- Weather card: if you enable it, Meridian requests a forecast from Open‑Meteo (open-meteo.com), sending either your typed city name or, if you separately grant location permission, your approximate coordinates. Nothing else is sent, and no identifier accompanies the request.
- Web search suggestions: if you enable them, the characters you type into search are sent to DuckDuckGo to fetch suggestions. This is the only feature that sends keystrokes off-device, it is clearly labeled, and it is off until you turn it on.
Permissions, and why each exists
- Notification access (optional): powers notification badges and the media card. Notification content is read on-device only and never stored beyond the badge/preview display, never transmitted.
- Accessibility service (optional): performs only the system actions you assign to gestures (open notifications, quick settings, recents, lock screen). It does not read screen content and collects nothing.
- Contacts (optional): lets search match your contacts, on-device only.
- Calendar (optional): shows your upcoming events on the feed page, on-device only.
- Location (optional, coarse): only used for the weather card if you prefer it over typing a city.
- Internet: exists solely for the two optional features above.
Declining any permission never blocks the rest of the app.
Data sharing and sale
We do not share, sell, or transfer any data to anyone, because we do not have any.
Children
Meridian does not collect data from anyone, including children.
Changes to this policy
If this policy ever changes, the update will be posted at this address with a new date. Material changes will be noted in the app's changelog.
Contact
Questions: tonyjsouthern3@gmail.com