EDDA / privacy

What EDDA collects

The short version: nothing that identifies you, ever. The long version is below, and it's genuinely short, because the list is genuinely short.

EDDA's design law, written into the project's own rules: EDDA is not a surveillance tool. Nothing it collects, aggregates, or displays may identify a commander or reveal where any individual is or has been. When a feature would need that data to work, the feature changes shape or doesn't ship.

Anonymous usage data (on by default; one checkbox turns it off)

If you leave "Send anonymous usage data" enabled, EDDA sends:

App version and operating system — e.g. 0.2.0, windows x86_64.
Warning and error signals — which internal component warned or failed (a code location and severity), so bugs get found. Never the message text, because message text can mention star systems, and where you fly is your business.
Performance timings — how long route plotting, trade searches, data sync, and data loading took. Durations only.
Which features are switched on — the toggles, so we know what's actually used.

It never sends:

Your commander name, or any account, name, or ID of any kind.
Your position, your routes, or any star system or station name.
Anything from your journal — cargo, credits, scans, missions, none of it.

Reports are not linked to you: there is no user ID, no install ID, and no way for us to tell two reports came from the same person.

Problem reports (only when you press Send)

The Report tab sends what you typed, plus your app version and OS. Attaching the day's log is a separate checkbox, off by default, and labeled with exactly why: logs can contain the names of systems you visited. Nothing is sent until you press the button.

The live activity map

The galaxy heatmap is built from the community's public EDDN data feed that every Elite tool shares — not from EDDA users. It is deliberately blurry: cells are a hundred light years wide, nothing on it can name a system, and the map cannot be clicked to identify anything. It's weather, not surveillance.

Everything else stays home

Your journal, your market database, your routes, your settings — all of it lives on your machine and is read there. Downloading galaxy data from our server is an ordinary file download; route planning happens locally.

Changes to what's collected will be reflected on this page before they ship. EDDA is an unofficial third-party tool. Elite Dangerous © Frontier Developments plc.