Privacy policy

Last updated 5 November 2026

This policy covers two things: the Zycord desktop application and the Zycord website. They are treated separately because they behave differently.

The short version: the application collects nothing and sends nothing, and the website sets no cookies and runs no analytics. The rest of this page explains what that means in detail.

The Zycord application

What it collects

Nothing. Zycord has no analytics, no crash reporting, no update check and no server. It does not transmit data anywhere.

What it stores on your computer

All of it lives in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Zycord:

  • settings.json holds your preferences and the games you saved to the library. It contains game names, application ids and executable paths, and no personal information.
  • logs holds one text file per day recording session starts and stops, process ids, refused operations and errors. It does not record your Discord account, token or messages.
  • games holds copies of the session stub, renamed for each game you started.
  • webview is a standard Microsoft Edge WebView2 profile folder, used to render the interface. Zycord does not read it.

Deleting %LOCALAPPDATA%\Zycord removes everything the application has stored. Settings are written atomically, so an interrupted save cannot leave a truncated file, and the previous copy is kept as settings.json.bak.

What it does not access

  • Discord's installation, files, memory or credentials.
  • Your browser history, documents, or any file outside its own data folder, apart from a log you export yourself.
  • Your network, microphone, camera or location.

Network access

The only network request the application makes is for game icons. The game catalog is stored with the application rather than downloaded. Game icons shown in the interface are loaded from cdn.discordapp.com by the WebView2 renderer, using only the icon hash stored in the catalog. That request fetches a public image and sends no information about you or your sessions.

Discord

Zycord has no account, no sign-in and no token. It does not connect to Discord's gateway, does not read or modify the Discord client, and does not send anything to Discord. It starts a local process with a particular file name, and Discord's own client does the detecting.

This website

Hosting

The site is served by GitHub Pages. GitHub may record standard web server information such as the requesting IP address, the page requested and the time, as described in GitHub's own privacy statement. That logging is done by GitHub, not by this project, and this project has no access to it.

Cookies and analytics

The site sets no cookies. It uses no analytics, no advertising, no tracking pixels and no third-party embeds. There is no consent banner because there is nothing to consent to.

External links

Links to GitHub leave this site and are governed by GitHub's policies. The project does not control what those pages collect.

Children

Zycord is not directed at children. Discord requires users to be at least 13 years old, and Zycord is only useful alongside a Discord account.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the updated version appears on this page with a new date. Because the application collects nothing, changes are unlikely to affect you in practice.

Contact

Questions about privacy can be raised at github.com/iZynu/zycord/issues.