Privacy policy
This policy explains what information ReFix (the "app") handles, why, where it is kept and how you control it. In short: ReFix has no servers and does not collect, sell or share your personal information. Everything ReFix stores stays on your PC, or in your own cloud storage when you choose to turn on profile sync.
1. Who we are
ReFix is a free, open-source tool for PC games, developed by an independent developer and published at github.com/Coronitaa/ReFix. You can reach us through GitHub issues.
2. Information kept on your PC
- Profiles: the name and picture you give each profile, and its saves, achievements, statistics and items.
- Settings: your overlay preferences (language, notifications, sync destination).
- Sign-in to a cloud service: if you connect Google Drive, the sign-in (an OAuth refresh token) and your
Google account name and email address, so the overlay can show which account is connected. These are encrypted
with Windows Data Protection (DPAPI) for your Windows user, in
%APPDATA%\ReFix\Cloud, and can only be read by that Windows user on that PC. Short-lived access tokens are kept in memory only and are never written to logs. - Log file: a technical log next to the game, used to diagnose problems. It never contains passwords or tokens.
None of this information is sent to ReFix or to any server operated by ReFix. ReFix does not have servers.
3. Information shared with other players
When you play, ReFix announces your profile name, picture and the game you are playing to the other ReFix players on your local network, so they can see and invite you. If you turn on Steam online services, the same information is shared with your Steam friends who use ReFix, through Steam's own peer-to-peer network. You can turn Steam online services off at any time from the overlay.
4. Google user data
Profile sync with Google Drive is optional and off until you sign in from the overlay (Settings > Syncing). When you connect your Google account, ReFix requests only:
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.appdata: access to a private application data folder in your Google Drive that only ReFix can use. ReFix cannot see, read, change or delete any other file in your Drive.
What ReFix does with it: it stores one file per profile in that folder (your saves, achievements, statistics
and items, compressed) and reads it back on your other PCs, so your progress follows you. It also reads your Google
account's display name and email address from the Drive API (about.user) only to show you, in the
overlay, which account is connected.
Where it goes: data travels directly between your PC and Google over an encrypted (HTTPS) connection. It is never sent to ReFix, to the developer or to any third party, and it is not used for advertising, analytics, profiling or training of any kind.
Limited Use: ReFix's use and transfer to any other app of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. No person reads your data.
5. Keeping and deleting your data
- Disconnect: in the overlay, Settings > Syncing > Disconnect deletes the sign-in and account details from your PC and revokes ReFix's access with Google.
- Remove access from Google: at any time at myaccount.google.com/permissions.
- Delete the synced files: in Google Drive on the web, open Settings > Manage apps > ReFix > Options > Delete hidden app data.
- Delete everything on your PC: uninstall ReFix and delete the folder
%APPDATA%\ReFix.
Synced files stay in your Google Drive until you delete them as described above.
6. Security
Sign-in uses Google's OAuth 2.0 with PKCE in your own browser; ReFix never sees your Google password. The sign-in is stored encrypted for your Windows user, all connections use HTTPS, and ReFix only asks for the narrowest permission that makes the feature work.
7. Children
ReFix is not directed to children under 13 and does not knowingly handle their personal information.
8. Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be published on this page with a new effective date.
9. Contact
Questions or requests about your data: open an issue at github.com/Coronitaa/ReFix/issues.