Privacy Policy

Who we are

This site is run by an individual. The name, address and hosting provider are given in the Legal Notice.

If you think your data is mishandled, tell us — and if that does not settle it, you can lodge a complaint with the CNIL, the French data protection authority. Write to us at support@unitygametranslator.asymptomatikgames.com.

What we hold, and how it reached us

Your account

If you sign up here, we store the username you chose and your password, which is hashed and which nobody can read back, including us. Recovery codes are stored the same way. No email address is asked for and none is stored.

If you sign in with another platform — Steam, Google, GitHub, Discord or Twitch — we store the identifier that platform gives us, the display name it returns, and your email address when it provides one. Steam does not provide one, so we generate an address that receives nothing and goes nowhere. We never receive your password on any of them.

Your display name is public. Your email address never is.

What you publish

The translations you upload, the votes you cast and the reports you send. They stay attached to your account for as long as it exists — and after it, see "Your Rights" below.

Connections and contributions

Every sign-in, every upload and every access token we issue is recorded with your IP address and your browser's identification. We are required to keep this: French law asks anyone hosting content published by others to be able to identify who contributed it.

The IP address is erased after twelve months, automatically. The record of a sign-in or of an access token is then erased entirely; the record of an upload stays, no longer attached to an address.

Programs linked to your account

When you link a game or the Manager to your account, we record which program asked, the name you gave the device, and — when the program says — which game. The game's name is kept encrypted, and nothing here identifies your machine. You can see the whole list, and cut any of it, under Linked devices in your profile.

Counting visitors

We count page views to know which games interest people. No cookie is used for this.

Each visit — like each call from the mod or the Manager — is reduced to two fingerprints computed from your IP address and the identification of your browser or program: one for the day, one for the month. Neither lets anyone recover your address or that identification. The country is guessed from your browser's language setting, never from your IP address, and we use no geolocation service.

The day's fingerprint is erased the following night, as soon as the day's total has been worked out; the month's, the night after the month ends, as soon as the month's total has been worked out. Each time, the key that produced it is destroyed with it. From then on nobody — ourselves included — can check whether a given address visited: the answer is kept, the working-out is gone.

The visits themselves are erased after 90 days. Only totals — how many views, how many downloads — are kept beyond that, and they name nobody.

What the mod and the Manager send

The mod, inside your game, asks our site whether a translation exists for that game, downloads the one you choose, and sends back what you publish. When you link it to your account it also names the game — and, if the Manager is installed, the random number the Manager drew for this machine — so that access is one you can recognise later. It checks for updates to itself.

The Manager finds Unity games on your machine — in the folders used by Steam, Epic and GOG, and in folders you add. It does not search your disks. If you allow it, it asks our site whether translations exist for the games it found, sending their names or Steam identifiers, and checks which mod loaders and versions have been published. It asks before doing any of this, and it works offline if you say no. When you sign in, it also sends a random number it drew once on this machine, so that your accesses can be grouped by machine. That number describes nothing about the machine, goes to our site only, and never travels on an anonymous request.

When you choose which game a translation is for, both show each game's cover, loaded directly from the service that hosts it (Steam, IGDB or RAWG). That service sees your IP address, as when you visit its website. The cover is only shown, never kept.

Neither ever sends the contents of your games.

Data Retention

How We Use Your Data

• Authenticate your account
• Display your name and avatar next to your contributions
• Contact you if necessary (e.g., about your reports)
• Moderate content and enforce our terms

Data Sharing

We sell nothing and share nothing for anybody else's purposes.

Some things nonetheless leave this machine, and you should know which:

• Our host keeps the site's backups. It is a French company and the data stays in France. A limited number of restore points is kept, and the oldest fall away as new ones arrive.
• The platform you sign in with knows you signed in — that is what signing in is.
• Game cover images are loaded from Steam, IGDB and RAWG. Your browser fetches them directly, so those services see your IP address. So does the platform hosting an avatar, when you use one.
• GitHub is contacted by the mod and by the Manager to fetch mod loaders and check versions, which shows them your IP address.

We cannot say your data never leaves Europe, because the four above are not all in Europe. What we can say is that we send nothing to any of them on purpose.

Cookies

We only use essential cookies required for the site to function:

• laravel_session: Site session (sign-in, language, preferences)
• XSRF-TOKEN: Security protection against cross-site attacks
• ugt_edit_session: Live editing session opened from the mod, removed when it ends
• remember_web_…: Set only if you ask to stay signed in, and then for thirty days. Signing out removes it.

Your Rights (GDPR)

• See everything we hold about you — Profile, then Export my data. It includes your account, your translations, your votes, your reports and the connection record with its IP addresses.
• Correct your display name — Profile. Once every 30 days.
• Erase your account — Profile, then Delete account. Your name, address, password and every way of signing in are erased immediately and irreversibly. Your published translations stay by default, credited to a deleted account nobody can trace back to you; a box lets you remove them instead, and the screen lists what would go.
• Object, or ask us to restrict what we do — write to us.
• Take your data elsewhere — the export above is a JSON file.
• Complain to the CNIL — see "Who we are" above.

Erasure has one limit, and it is not ours. The connection record above is kept for twelve months even after an account is erased, because the law requires it; it no longer carries your name. And a backup restored from before your request could bring back what you erased — we keep a list of erasures so they can be applied again, but if the live database were lost entirely that list would go with it.

Policy Updates

We may update this policy occasionally. Significant changes will be announced on the site.