Cogno

Privacy

Last updated: October 2026

Deutsche Fassung

Controller

Lars Wolfram (C. Mühl)
Mockauer Str. 123
04357 Leipzig, Germany
hi@cogno.rocks

In short

Cogno works locally. Your commands, terminal output, files and settings never leave your computer. The only connection Cogno makes on its own is the check for updates. While doing so we count anonymously which versions run on which platforms. We do not store IP addresses or an identifier of your installation, and we use no cookies or trackers.

Update checks in the app

On start and then roughly every six hours, Cogno asks dl.cogno.rocks whether a new version is available. The request contains:

  • the installed version of Cogno,
  • the operating system (Windows, macOS or Linux) and the processor architecture,
  • the package type of the installation (for example installer, AppImage, deb or rpm),
  • the update channel (release or development).

For technical reasons the server also receives your IP address. We do not store it; only the country is derived from it. For each request we store one anonymous count made of the details above, the country and the time. It cannot be traced back to you as a person.

The purpose is to deliver security and bug fixes to you and to understand which versions and platforms are still in use. The legal basis is our legitimate interest under Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.

You can turn update checks off at any time: set feature.updater.mode = off in your configuration. Cogno then no longer connects to dl.cogno.rocks.

Downloads

Cogno and its updates are delivered through dl.cogno.rocks. For each download we count anonymously the version, platform, package type, country, whether it is an update (and from which version) and the time. IP addresses are not stored here either.

Service provider: Cloudflare

dl.cogno.rocks, the storage of the download files, the counting and the DNS of cogno.rocks run on Cloudflare, Inc., 101 Townsend St, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA. Cloudflare processes the IP address to establish the connection and to fend off attacks, and acts as our processor under Art. 28 GDPR. Cloudflare is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework; the EU Standard Contractual Clauses apply in addition. Details: Cloudflare's privacy policy.

This website

This website is served by GitLab Pages (GitLab Inc., 268 Bush Street #350, San Francisco, CA 94104, USA). When you visit it, GitLab processes technically necessary data such as your IP address, the time, the page and your browser's user agent to deliver the page and keep the service secure. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. Details: GitLab's privacy policy.

The website uses no cookies, no analytics or tracking tools and loads no third-party content. Fonts are served by this website itself.

Links to GitHub, Discord, Reddit, X and YouTube are plain links. Only when you follow them do the privacy policies of those providers apply.

Contact by email

When you write to hi@cogno.rocks, we process your address and your message in order to reply (Art. 6(1)(b) and (f) GDPR). Emails are forwarded by united-domains GmbH, Gautinger Str. 10, 82319 Starnberg, Germany.

Your rights

You have the right of access, rectification, erasure and restriction of processing, the right to data portability and the right to object to processing based on legitimate interest. Just write to hi@cogno.rocks. We cannot provide information about the anonymous counts because they cannot be linked to any person.

You can also lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority, for example the Saxon Data Protection and Transparency Commissioner (Sächsische Datenschutz- und Transparenzbeauftragte), Devrientstraße 5, 01067 Dresden, Germany.