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Privacy

This page describes Reflux as it is built today. Its wording has not yet had legal review, which is due before Reflux is released (it is pre-release software, not yet distributed).

In short

Reflux has no account, no analytics, no advertising, and no tracking. It sends nothing to RSX Develops, its maker. What it knows about your media stays on your device, apart from what it must send to the servers and services you choose to use, listed below.

What Reflux keeps on your device

  • Your library: the folders, servers, and shares you add, the titles found in them, their descriptions and pictures, what you have watched and where you stopped, your favorites and choices.
  • How to reach your servers and shares. On Android it is encrypted with a key held in the system's keystore; on Windows it is kept in Windows Credential Manager; on Linux in the system's secret store where one runs, otherwise in Reflux's own files. Passwords for Jellyfin and Plex servers are used to sign in and are not kept; the session they open is.
  • Copies you choose to keep for watching offline, in Reflux's own storage.
  • A diagnostics log of problems, with credentials and tokens removed. It never leaves your device unless you send it yourself.

On Android, Reflux's data is excluded from device backups. Uninstalling Reflux removes it. On Windows and Linux it stays in Reflux's data folder (see Download) until you delete it.

What Reflux sends, and to whom

  • Your own servers and shares (Jellyfin, Plex, SMB, WebDAV): the requests needed to list and play your media and to keep what you watched in step with them. They see what you play from them, as with any client.
  • Plex: when you sign in with a Plex account, your sign-in goes to plex.tv, Plex's service, to find your servers.
  • TMDB (themoviedb.org): to recognise a film or show and fetch its description and artwork, Reflux sends TMDB the title and year it read from the file's name (or an ID it already has) and your language, with Reflux's own application key; TMDB sees your IP address, as any website does. Never the file's location, your servers, or anything about you. Turn it off under Sources, "Online metadata & artwork", and Reflux uses only your servers and files.
  • Nothing else. Reflux contains no analytics, crash reporting, or advertising service.

On Android TV and Google TV

To show "continue watching" on the home screen, Reflux writes the titles you are watching, with their pictures, into the system's TV provider, which the launcher reads. On Fire TV it does not.

This website

This website sets no cookies, runs no analytics, and loads nothing from anyone else: its fonts and images are its own. It is hosted by Vercel, which handles the requests your browser makes to it (including your IP address) to serve its pages.

Children

Reflux plays media you already have; it does not collect information from anyone, children included.

Changes and contact

Changes to this page are listed in Reflux's release notes. Questions: Support.