Privacy Policy

Last updated: March 18 2025

In this Privacy Policy, “Lightpanda” refers to Selecy SAS and its companies, all of which are subject to the same level of data protection. Lightpanda is the data controller as it processes your data on its own behalf. Lightpanda has designated the French data protection authority (CNIL) as the lead authority in terms of data protection.

Our guiding principle

Our guiding principle is to collect only what we need, and we will solely process this information to provide you with the service you signed up for.

We use a select number of trusted external service providers for certain service offerings. These service providers are carefully selected and meet high data protection, privacy, and security standards. We only share information with them that is required for the services offered, and we contractually bind them to keep any information we share with them confidential and to process personal data only according to our instructions.

As a visitor of the lightpanda.io website:The privacy of our website visitors is important to us, so we do not track individual people. As a visitor to the lightpanda.io website:

  • - No personal information is collected.
  • - No information such as cookies is stored in the browser.
  • - No information is sold to third parties.
  • - No information is shared with advertising companies.
  • - No information is mined and harvested for personal and behavioral trends.
  • - No information is monetized.

Lightpanda uses Plausible Analytics to collect some anonymous usage data for statistical purposes. The goal is to track overall trends in our website traffic, not individual visitors. All data is aggregated, and no personal data is collected. You can view the data we collect in our live demo.

Data collected includes referral sources, top pages, visit duration, and information from the devices (device type, operating system, country, and browser) used during the visit. You can see full details in Plausible's data policy.

As a open source browser user:What we collect, what we use it for, and services we use:

Lightpanda uses telemetry to track open source browser usage. Starting the browser and requesting a page trigger a telemetry event. We store data including the timestamp, the browser's version, the IP address, the browser's instance id, the CPU arch, the OS, the protocol and if a connection uses tls and a proxy. The browser's instance id is an UUID generated at the first start and stored in the app local directory in lightpanda/iid path. The app local directory depends on the user's OS.

What we don't collect

The telemetry doesn't collect sensitive data, including but not limited to: environment variables, file paths, contents of files, logs, URL, cookies, headers, page content.

Lightpanda uses an internal database to store the data received by the telemetry.

Disable telemetry:

You can disable telemetry by setting the env var LIGHTPANDA_DISABLE_TELEMETRY=true.

As a cloud offer user:What we collect, what we use it for, and services we use:

Lightpanda uses Slack to notify email subscriptions. This notification allow us to create an new account and send you your connection token.

Lightpanda uses an internal database to store your email for the cloud offer. You need to provide us with your email address if you want to subscribe to the Lightpanda cloud offer. This allows us to send you your connection token and maintain your account.

Retention of data:

We will retain your information as long as your subscription to the cloud offer is active. We will also retain and use this information as necessary for the purposes set out in this policy and to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce our agreements, and protect Lightpanda's legal rights. You can choose to unsubscribe from the Lightpanda cloud offer at any time. All your data will be permanently deleted immediately when you unsubscribe.

As a mailing list user:What we collect, what we use it for, and services we use:

Lightpanda uses Mailerlite to store email subscriptions and send emails. You can see full details in Mailerlite's data policy . An email address is required to subscribe to the mailing list. You need to provide us with your email address if you want to subscribe to the Lightpanda mailing list. This allows us to send you product updates and other essential information.

Email opening and click tracking:

Mailerlite may include single-pixel gifs (web beacons) in emails we send, which allow us to collect information about when you open the email and your IP address, browser or email client type, and other similar details. We use the data from those web beacons to create reports about our email campaign performance and pages visited.

Retention of data:

We will retain your information as long as your subscription to the mailing list is active and as necessary to provide you with the information. We will also retain and use this information as necessary for the purposes set out in this policy and to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce our agreements, and protect Lightpanda's legal rights. You can choose to unsubscribe from the Lightpanda mailing list at any time. All your data will be permanently deleted immediately when you unsubscribe.

Changes and questions:

We may update this policy as needed to comply with relevant regulations and reflect any new practices. Whenever we make a significant change to our policies, we will also announce them on our company blog or social media profiles. Contact us at hello@lightpanda.io if you have any questions, comments, or concerns about this privacy policy, your data, or your rights with respect to your information.

Contact Information:

If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, the ways in which we collect and use your personal data or your choices and rights regarding such collection and use, please do not hesitate to contact us at:
hello@lightpanda.io

Selecy SAS
8 rue du faubourg Poissonnière
75010 Paris France