Your data and privacy

Your data

The app writes nothing into the World of Warcraft folder except the addon itself, and only when you ask it to install, update or remove it in Settings, Addon (never while the game runs). Removing the addon removes only its folder: what it recorded stays in the game’s files and in the app, and a copy is kept so you can put it back. A copy installed by an addon manager is left alone unless you choose to replace it.

Each time the game saves a journal, the app keeps a copy in its own data folder; Keep backups for chooses how long those copies are kept (30 days, 90 days, 1 year or forever). Your journal’s full history stays in the app whatever you choose: backups are only a safety net.

Forgetting data in the game, with the addon’s “Forget recorded” buttons, changes only the game’s files. To remove a character’s history from the app, remove the character in the app.

Privacy

With This computer, nothing leaves your computer.

With an endpoint, what is sent depends on where it is. An address on your own computer (such as Ollama at http://localhost:11434/v1) stays on it. For any other address, the app shows this before you use it, and it is exactly what happens:

This address is not on this computer. When writing, the app sends that address: your character’s name, the names of people you grouped with, and the text of quests you touched that day, along with what happened that day.

Turn on Send stand-in names for the people you grouped with to send invented names instead; the real names are put back in the entry when it comes back. Your endpoint key, if it needs one, is kept in your system’s keychain, never in the app’s files.

When something goes wrong

The app keeps a log of what it does, a file a day for the last week, in the logs folder of its data folder. Settings, General, Show the log file opens it in your file manager: attach it when you ask for help. If some settings could not be read, Settings says which ones are back to their defaults; the values it could not read are kept aside rather than overwritten.