Privacy
notice.

Data controller

The data controller for angora.org.tr and for trial requests is NitroByte. Contact: the NitroByte contact page.

The site does no tracking

• This site has no analytics, advertising or tracking code.
• No cookies are used.
• Fonts, images and scripts are served from the site’s own server; opening a page sends no request to any other company’s server.
• Like any web server, the hosting server keeps short-lived access logs (IP address, requested page, time) for security and troubleshooting.

The “Hear about new releases” form

What data

• Your e-mail address (required).
• Your name and the note about your computer (optional; only if you write them).
• The date and time of the request, the language of the form and the version of the consent text you accepted.

Your IP address is not written to your record. To prevent abuse, an irreversible hash of your IP address is kept for at most one hour and then deleted.

For what purpose

Solely to inform you about the AngoraOS trial build. The optional note about your computer helps us see which hardware the system will be tried on. Your data is not used for any other purpose, not used for marketing, not sold and not shared with third parties.

Legal basis

Your explicit consent, given by ticking the box on the form (Turkish Personal Data Protection Law no. 6698, art. 5/1; GDPR art. 6(1)(a) where applicable). You may withdraw it at any time.

Where and for how long

Records are kept on the server that hosts the site, in a file that cannot be reached from the web. They are deleted when the trial period ends or when you ask for deletion, whichever comes first.

Deletion and your other rights

To have your record deleted or corrected, or to learn what data is held about you, write through the NitroByte contact page, stating the e-mail address you used on the form. You can exercise all your rights under data protection law the same way.

The operating system: Analytics and Improvements

AngoraOS collects and sends nothing by default. Only if you choose “Share” on first start or in System Settings → Privacy and Security → Analytics and Improvements are the technical reports below sent to angora.org.tr. If you do not, no report is created.

What data

• Crash reports: when AngoraOS apps, the desktop or system services close unexpectedly, the app name, package version, error type and a stack trace made only of function names. Memory contents (core dumps) are never sent.
• App incompatibilities: the name, package, version and kind (e.g. Flatpak, Wine) of an app that failed to start or crashed, and a short reason (e.g. the name of a missing library).
• Hardware compatibility: the model of the graphics, Wi‑Fi, audio, Bluetooth and network chips, the driver in use and whether it works.
• The AngoraOS version (Mark), the system language and an anonymous identifier randomly generated on your computer.

Reports contain no name, account name, computer name, files, command lines or environment variables. User names in file paths, e-mail, IP and hardware (MAC) addresses are removed from the text both on your computer and on the server. Your IP address is not written to reports; to prevent abuse an irreversible hash is kept for at most one hour. The anonymous identifier is stored on the server only as an irreversible hash. You can see every report in full in Settings before it is sent.

Purpose, legal basis and retention

The sole purpose is to find and fix crashes, incompatible apps and non-working hardware; the data is not used for marketing, not sold and not shared with third parties. The legal basis is your explicit consent, given by turning the setting on (KVKK art. 5/1; GDPR art. 6(1)(a) where applicable). Reports are kept on the angora.org.tr server, in a file that cannot be reached from the web, for at most one year and then deleted automatically.

Withdrawing consent and deletion

You can turn sharing off at any time in the same setting; unsent reports are deleted too. The “Delete my data on the server” button permanently deletes every report your computer has sent; “Reset anonymous identifier” makes later reports count under a new identifier. For your other rights, write through the NitroByte contact page.

The operating system: Location Services

Location Services are off by default; while off, no app can get your location. If you turn them on, each app asks you the first time it wants your location. Your location is never sent to NitroByte or angora.org.tr. When locating via Wi‑Fi, the identifiers of nearby Wi‑Fi networks are sent to the open, non-profit BeaconDB location database (api.beacondb.net) to look up their position; you can turn this source off in Settings.