Plain-language commitment: The AEGIS Blackwall desktop application collects nothing — no telemetry, no analytics, no advertising, no cloud account. The only information the Publisher ever stores is what you choose to type into the website's support contact form, used solely to reply to you. AEGIS never sells or shares your data.
1. Scope
This policy applies to the AEGIS Blackwall Windows application, the official website at aegis-blackwall.pages.dev, and the AEGIS update endpoint. AEGIS Blackwall is provided by its developer or distributor (the “Publisher”).
Services you choose to open through AEGIS—such as Microsoft services, GitHub, browser stores, VPN providers, and third-party utilities—operate under their own privacy policies. AEGIS does not control their practices.
2. No data collection by AEGIS
The AEGIS Blackwall desktop application does not collect personal information, device inventories, security events, scan history, file paths, browser history, startup entries, network details, drive protection status, usage analytics, crash telemetry, advertising identifiers, precise location, or payment information. It has no telemetry and does not create an online account or profile for you.
The one exception is the support contact form on the official website: if you voluntarily submit it, the Publisher stores what you send in order to respond to you. This is described in full in Section 4. Outside of a message you choose to send, the Publisher has no AEGIS user database, analytics store, or profile system tied to the application or your device.
3. Information processed locally
Depending on the feature used, the application may read and display:
- Microsoft Defender, firewall, quarantine, scan, exclusion, and Windows security-event status.
- Network adapters, DNS configuration, connection state, and device information exposed by Windows.
- Startup entries, boot-performance information, installed applications, browsers, VPN clients, and supported tools.
- Running applications, their executable paths, digital-signature/publisher status, and outbound-connection state, used by AEGIS Core to label trust and manage per-application firewall rules.
- BitLocker protection status for your system drive.
- Your AEGIS display name, profile-image path, appearance, notification, update, and application preferences.
This information stays on your PC in the application, your Windows user profile, Windows system stores, or third-party application stores. It is not sent to AEGIS. AEGIS does not request or store encryption passwords, private keys, or recovery keys.
4. Infrastructure and external connections
Although AEGIS does not collect your data, another company must technically handle a network request when your browser loads the website, the application checks for an update, or you open a third-party page. Those direct connections are summarized below.
| Activity | Where it is handled | What AEGIS receives | Retention |
|---|---|---|---|
| Device and security information displayed in AEGIS | Locally on your PC | Nothing | Controlled by you, Windows, and local application settings |
| AEGIS preferences, display name, and profile-image path | Locally in your Windows user profile | Nothing | Until you change or delete the local settings |
| Update-file requests | Cloudflare, which hosts and secures the update files | Nothing is copied into an AEGIS analytics system, log database, or user profile | Controlled by Cloudflare under its own policies |
| Loading a page on this website | A Publisher-operated pageview counter hosted on Cloudflare (D1) | The page path, referring page, and a one-way hash of your IP address that rotates every day — never your raw IP, never a cookie | Deleted after 13 months; never linked across days |
| Submitting the support contact form | A Publisher-operated database hosted on Cloudflare (D1) | The email address, topic, and message you type, plus your IP address | Until your request is resolved and deleted, or you ask us to delete it sooner |
| A rejected spam or rate-limited contact-form submission | The same Publisher-operated database | Your IP address and the reason it was blocked (no message content) | Retained for abuse-prevention purposes; deleted periodically |
| A page, store listing, provider, or download you choose to open | Directly by the selected third-party provider | Nothing | Controlled by that provider under its own policy |
AEGIS does not enable Cloudflare Web Analytics and does not export, review, or maintain Cloudflare request logs as an AEGIS user-activity record. The support-form database described above is accessed only by the Publisher, solely to respond to inquiries and to prevent abuse of the contact form.
5. No sale, sharing, or profiling
Because AEGIS does not collect your personal data, it does not sell it, rent it, trade it, disclose it to data brokers, share it for cross-context behavioral advertising, or use it to build advertising or behavior profiles.
AEGIS does not submit files, security samples, device activity, or application usage to the Publisher.
6. Retention and deletion
Local settings remain on your PC until you change or delete them. Reports you export remain only where you save them.
If you submit the support contact form, your message is retained only until your request is resolved and then deleted, or until you ask us to delete it sooner. Blocked spam or rate-limited submissions retain only an IP address and a rejection reason, kept for abuse-prevention purposes and deleted periodically.
Cloudflare, Microsoft, and providers you choose to contact control the retention of information processed directly by their services. Their retention practices are not AEGIS data collection.
7. Infrastructure and third-party providers
Cloudflare provides hosting, delivery, HTTPS, and security for the official website and update files. A website or update request reaches Cloudflare directly from your device. Cloudflare may process standard technical request information under its own privacy terms; separately, the Publisher runs its own minimal, self-hosted pageview counter (see Section 10) rather than sending this to a third-party analytics vendor.
Windows-managed features may contact Microsoft. Pages and downloads you deliberately open may contact browser vendors, extension stores, VPN providers, GitHub, or other selected providers. Each provider is responsible for its own privacy practices and any international processing it performs.
8. Your choices
There is no AEGIS account or cloud profile. You control local information by:
- Changing or removing the local display name and profile image.
- Changing automatic-update and local activity preferences in Settings.
- Closing AEGIS and deleting its preferences from the AEGIS Blackwall folder under your Windows Local AppData profile.
- Declining to open or download a third-party tool.
- Requesting deletion of a support message you submitted, by contacting support and referencing your email or the date you wrote in.
Requests about information handled by Cloudflare, Microsoft, or another provider must be directed to that provider because AEGIS does not possess those records.
9. Security
The official website and update channel use HTTPS and restrictive browser security headers. AEGIS reduces privacy risk by keeping device information local and by operating without a remote user-data repository. You remain responsible for securing your Windows account, local settings, exported reports, encryption credentials, and device.
10. Cookies, analytics, and tracking
The official website does not set cookies, load third-party tracking pixels, provide account sign-in, show targeted advertising, or use third-party web fonts.
It does run one thing: a minimal, self-hosted pageview counter, built to see how many people find the site useful without profiling anyone. On each page load, the page path, the referring page, and a one-way hash of your IP address are recorded — the hash rotates every day, so it cannot follow you across days, is never your raw IP, and is not a cookie. This data is never sent to a third-party analytics vendor (no Google Analytics, no Meta Pixel, nothing similar), and it fully respects the browser “Do Not Track” signal — if your browser sends it, nothing is recorded at all.
11. Changes and contact
This policy may be revised if AEGIS features, distribution methods, providers, or legal requirements change. If AEGIS ever introduces data collection, this notice will be updated before that collection begins and the change will be disclosed clearly. The effective date above identifies the current version.
Privacy questions should be directed through the official support contact form. Do not send passwords, recovery keys, security logs, or other sensitive device information.