Free Lane: Privacy Policy

_Last updated: November 15, 2026_

Free Lane is a free Android app store made by Frantz Vardman (J & F Studios).

The short version

• No account, no ads, no analytics, no tracking.

• Free Lane does not collect or send any information about you.

What Free Lane connects to

• The store catalog and app files, downloaded from GitHub (raw.githubusercontent.com and github.com), where the apps are published. Like any website, GitHub can see the request (your IP address and that a file was downloaded). Free Lane sends nothing else.

• App images (icons and screenshots), from the same place.

• The Submit button opens the submission page on shop.frantzmichaelsthilairevardman.com in your browser.

What stays on your phone

• A copy of the catalog and images, so the store opens quickly and works offline.

• Your settings (for example "Update automatically").

• Downloaded app files, only until they're installed; then they're deleted.

Installing and updating apps

Free Lane asks Android for permission to install apps. Before installing, it checks each file's SHA-256 fingerprint against the catalog and refuses any file that doesn't match. To show Install, Update or Open, it checks which store apps are on your phone; that check happens on the phone and is never sent anywhere.

Notifications

If you allow them, Free Lane posts a notification when updates are ready. You can turn this off in Android settings.

Apps from other developers

Each app in Free Lane has its own privacy policy. Free Lane reviews apps before listing them, but each developer is responsible for their app.

Contact

Use the contact form at https://shop.frantzmichaelsthilairevardman.com/contact.