Privacy Policy

Effective Date: 20/07/2026

Updated: 20/07/2026

Aaron Doe (XZDDev) creates and maintains open source apps, websites, and related projects. This policy explains the privacy approach used across XZDDev projects, including the optional ReleaseQuest Account system, unless a specific project provides its own separate privacy notice.

1. Privacy Summary

ReleaseQuest can be used without creating an account. Core game discovery, lists, notes, journals, preferences, and private insights are stored and processed on your device unless you choose to use an account feature that clearly sends supported data to ReleaseQuest.

  • A ReleaseQuest Account is optional.
  • We do not sell or rent personal information.
  • We do not use account information for advertising or cross-app tracking.
  • This website does not use advertising cookies or behavioural analytics.
  • Other XZDDev projects that do not offer online features continue to keep their data on-device.

2. ReleaseQuest Account Data

If you create a ReleaseQuest Account, we process the information needed to provide it, including:

  • Your Firebase account identifier and sign-in provider.
  • Your name and email address as supplied by Sign in with Apple or Google. Apple may provide a private relay email address.
  • Your chosen username, display name, biography, profile picture, discovery preference, profile level, and experience points.
  • Friend requests, accepted friendships, blocked-account records, and the visibility choices you make.
  • Game IDs, titles, statuses, artwork links, platforms, and release dates that you choose to sync from My Lists.
  • Reports you submit, including the selected reason and a snapshot of the reported profile at the time of reporting.
  • Limited technical and security information processed by Firebase, authentication providers, and App Check to operate, protect, and diagnose the service.

3. How We Use Account Data

We use this information only where necessary to:

  • Create, authenticate, secure, maintain, and delete ReleaseQuest Accounts.
  • Display profiles, find users by username, manage friendships, and show information according to each user's visibility settings.
  • Sync supported library information and calculate profile progress.
  • Process reports, prevent abuse, enforce our community rules, and protect users and the service.
  • Respond to support, privacy, and account-deletion requests.

4. Visibility and Sharing with Other Users

Your display name, username, profile picture, biography, and level may be visible to signed-in users when friend discovery is enabled and to accepted friends. Synced library and activity information is shown according to the visibility controls you select: Private, Friends, or Public. Blocking removes the friendship and pending requests and prevents the affected accounts from finding or viewing one another.

Reports are not shown publicly. They are available only for service safety, moderation, investigation, and compliance purposes.

5. Service Providers and External Services

ReleaseQuest uses service providers that process information on our behalf or provide authentication:

  • Google Firebase for authentication, database storage, file storage, server functions, and abuse protection.
  • Google Sign-In and Sign in with Apple when you choose either provider.
  • IGDB/Twitch for public game metadata. Account profile information is not intentionally sent to IGDB.

Selecting a trailer opens a YouTube search in your browser. External sites and sign-in providers operate under their own privacy policies. Their processing locations may differ from your country of residence.

6. Legal Bases

Where data-protection law requires a legal basis, we process account data to provide the service you request, with your consent where applicable, and for legitimate interests such as service security, abuse prevention, support, and enforcing our terms. You may stop optional processing by signing out, changing visibility settings, disabling discovery, removing your picture, or deleting your account.

7. Storage, Retention, and Deletion

Account data is retained while your ReleaseQuest Account remains active or as reasonably necessary to provide the service. You can delete your account from Profile → Edit → Account Controls → Delete ReleaseQuest Account. This removes the Firebase authentication record, profile and profile picture, username reservation, friendships, requests, blocks, reports associated with the account, and synced library data. Local app data remains on your device unless you separately delete it or uninstall the app.

If you cannot access the app, use our ReleaseQuest Account deletion page to request deletion. Support or deletion correspondence may be retained only as long as reasonably necessary to complete the request, maintain security, or meet legal obligations.

8. Security

We use access controls, authenticated server operations, encrypted network connections, Firebase security rules, and application-integrity checks designed to protect account data. No online service can guarantee absolute security. Do not place sensitive personal information in your display name, username, biography, or profile picture.

9. Your Choices and Rights

Depending on your location, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, or object to processing of your personal information, and to receive a portable copy where applicable. Profile information and visibility can be changed in the app. To make another privacy request, contact us using the address below. We may need to verify that you control the relevant account before fulfilling a request.

10. Open Source Code

Some XZDDev projects are published as open source. Source code may be hosted on services such as GitHub or GitLab. Those platforms may process data according to their own privacy policies when you visit them, create an account, open an issue, submit a pull request, or otherwise interact with their services.

11. Support Contact

If you contact us by email, you choose what information to include. We use support messages only to read, respond to, investigate, and resolve the request. We do not use support emails for marketing, analytics, profiling, or resale.

12. External Links and App Stores

XZDDev pages and apps may link to third-party services such as app stores, source code hosts, documentation, or project websites. These third parties are not operated by XZDDev and may have their own privacy practices. Please review their policies before using those services.

13. Children's Privacy

ReleaseQuest is a general-audience service and ReleaseQuest Accounts are not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect account information from a child who cannot lawfully consent to its processing. If you are a parent or guardian and believe a child has created an account without appropriate permission, contact us so that we can investigate and delete the account.

14. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When changes are made, the updated policy will be posted on this page with a revised update date.

15. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:

acdelectrical@icloud.com

Olilo Status is operated separately. For the Olilo Status Privacy Policy, visit: https://olilo.co.uk/privacy

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