Privacy

The short version

We collect as little as possible. This website uses cookieless Cloudflare Web Analytics and Google Analytics (no analytics cookies unless you accept them), and the SaveVault application is local-first with no telemetry — it does not phone home about what you back up.

What this website collects

• Cloudflare Web Analytics: aggregate, cookieless usage stats (page views, referrers) with no personal identifiers and no cross-site tracking.
• Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics 4: Google Tag Manager loads Google Analytics for page views and, after launch, Google Ads campaign measurement. Google Consent Mode defaults to denied, so no advertising or analytics cookies are set and Google receives only anonymous, cookieless pings unless you accept them in the cookie banner. You can change that choice any time from Cookie settings in the footer. Google processes that data under Google’s privacy policy.
• Contact form: the name, email, and message you submit are emailed to our support inbox (via Resend) solely so we can reply. We don't sell it or use it for marketing.
• Direct purchases: see Payments below for the order record we keep.
• Server logs: our host (Cloudflare) processes standard request logs to serve and protect the site.

Payments

We never see or store your card details. Steam purchases are handled by Valve. Direct purchases are processed by Stripe, with Link as the seller of record, underStripe's privacy policy. After a direct purchase we keep a small order record — the checkout reference, your email address, the amount, currency and billing country — so we can send your download link, answer support questions and keep our books; the download-link email is sent via Resend. We don't use it for marketing.

The SaveVault application

• Local-first, no telemetry: your games, saves, and backups stay on your machine. The app collects no usage telemetry and sends no information about what you back up or play.

These are all of the network connections the app makes:

• Game database: the app downloads the community Ludusavi game-save manifest from raw.githubusercontent.com (GitHub). By default it checks on launch; you can turn that off, or point it at your own source, under Settings → Game Database, and it also updates when you press Update Game Database.
• Update checks: GitHub Releases or savevault.app, depending on the build you installed, compared by version number only. Steam-edition updates are delivered by Steam instead.
• rclone download: Lite builds fetch rclone from the rclone project’s GitHub Releases only when you click Download & Install in Settings.
• WebView2 runtime (Windows): if your PC does not already have Microsoft’s WebView2 runtime, the installer (or the Steam first-run script) downloads it from Microsoft before the app can start.
• Cloud backup is optional and goes only to the provider you configure (Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, and so on), through rclone. That data never passes through us — only you and your chosen provider hold it.
• Steam edition: talks to Steam for achievements and Steam Workshop, under Valve’s privacy policy.

Your choices

To ask what we hold about you, or to have a contact-form message deleted, justemail us.