Privacy

Last updated 2026-10-10

This website

This site sets no cookies, has no accounts and does no tracking, with one exception: it uses Cloudflare Web Analytics to count visits. That service is cookieless and reports only aggregate figures, such as how many people viewed a page, without identifying you.

The home page has a video hosted on YouTube. Nothing loads from YouTube until you press play. The player then comes from YouTube's privacy-enhanced mode (youtube-nocookie.com), and YouTube's own privacy policy applies to it.

The Golden Lanthorn app

The app runs locally on your computer. Your games, your saves and your settings stay on your computer.

The app connects to the internet only when you ask it to. It can look up a game's details, such as its title, author, cover and documents, on IFDB, the Interactive Fiction Database, and download a game or a file you pick from IFDB's links or the IF Archive. A web-page document you open may load its pictures from the site it came from. Those sites see each request, much as they would if you visited them in your browser, and their own terms and privacy policies apply.

Contact

Questions about privacy: hello@goldenlanthorn.com