Privacy
Reviews are downloaded to your computer and read there. Nothing you download is sent anywhere, and reading needs no account and no key. A report is one file that fetches nothing when opened.
Where the app connects
| To | For | How often |
|---|---|---|
| Steam | The reviews, names and totals of the games you add, store search, and each game's store picture | When you add or update a game; review totals while the app is open, at most as often as Settings chooses (every six hours unless changed, never more than hourly), which Settings turns off |
| Hugging Face | The readers, the search models and the writer, each checked against its pinned length and SHA-256; whether newer ones are published | Each file once, when the work that needs it first runs or when you choose Download now under the cockpit's Models; the newer-model check whenever the library is checked against Steam |
| GitHub | Whether a newer SteamGauge is out, what each release changes, and the update itself | On opening and at most every six hours while the app is open, which Settings turns off; once more when you choose Check for updates on the About page, or Update now, which then downloads it. What each release changes, when About lists it |
| Sigstore | The keys an update's signature is checked against | Only during an update |
Nothing else. A link in the window, to a review, a release or SteamGauge's own pages, opens in your browser.
Your data
Review text, author IDs and profiles on Steam are public, but a library of thousands of reviewers is still personal data, so it stays on your disk. This repository holds no review data, and the published dataset holds a fingerprint of each labelled review instead of its text.