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title: "Privacy Policy"
description: "Rclone Privacy Policy"
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# Rclone Privacy Policy #

## What is this Privacy Policy for? ##

This privacy policy is for this website https://rclone.org and governs the privacy of its users who choose to use it.

The policy sets out the different areas where user privacy is concerned and outlines the obligations & requirements of the users, the website and website owners. Furthermore the way this website processes, stores and protects user data and information will also be detailed within this policy.

## The Website ##

This website and its owners take a proactive approach to user privacy and ensure the necessary steps are taken to protect the privacy of its users throughout their visiting experience. This website complies to all UK national laws and requirements for user privacy.

## Use of Cookies ##

This website uses cookies to better the users experience while visiting the website. Where applicable this website uses a cookie control system allowing the user on their first visit to the website to allow or disallow the use of cookies on their computer / device. This complies with recent legislation requirements for websites to obtain explicit consent from users before leaving behind or reading files such as cookies on a user's computer / device.

Cookies are small files saved to the user's computers hard drive that track, save and store information about the user's interactions and usage of the website. This allows the website, through its server to provide the users with a tailored experience within this website.

Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website on to their computers hard drive they should take necessary steps within their web browsers security settings to block all cookies from this website and its external serving vendors.

This website uses tracking software to monitor its visitors to better understand how they use it. This software is provided by Google Analytics which uses cookies to track visitor usage. The software will save a cookie to your computers hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website, but will not store, save or collect personal information. You can read [Google's privacy policy here](https://www.google.com/privacy.html) for further information.

Other cookies may be stored to your computers hard drive by external vendors when this website uses referral programs, sponsored links or adverts. Such cookies are used for conversion and referral tracking and typically expire after 30 days, though some may take longer. No personal information is stored, saved or collected.

## Contact & Communication ##

Users contacting this website and/or its owners do so at their own discretion and provide any such personal details requested at their own risk. Your personal information is kept private and stored securely until a time it is no longer required or has no use, as detailed in the Data Protection Act 1998.

This website and its owners use any information submitted to provide you with further information about the products / services they offer or to assist you in answering any questions or queries you may have submitted.

## External Links ##

Although this website only looks to include quality, safe and relevant external links, users are advised adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website.

The owners of this website cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite their best efforts. Users should therefore note they click on external links at their own risk and this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

## Adverts and Sponsored Links ##

This website may contain sponsored links and adverts. These will typically be served through our advertising partners, to whom may have detailed privacy policies relating directly to the adverts they serve.

Clicking on any such adverts will send you to the advertisers website through a referral program which may use cookies and will track the number of referrals sent from this website. This may include the use of cookies which may in turn be saved on your computers hard drive. Users should therefore note they click on sponsored external links at their own risk and this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

### Social Media Platforms ##

Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms that this website and its owners participate on are subject to the terms and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively.

Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and communicate / engage upon them with due care and caution in regard to their own privacy and personal details. This website nor its owners will ever ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms and encourage users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact them through primary communication channels such as email.

This website may use social sharing buttons which help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platform in question. Users are advised before using such social sharing buttons that they do so at their own discretion and note that the social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page respectively through your social media platform account.

## Use of Cloud API User Data ##

Rclone is a command line program to manage files on cloud storage. Its sole purpose is to access and manipulate user content in the [supported](/overview/) cloud storage systems from a local machine of the end user. For accessing the user content via the cloud provider API, Rclone uses authentication mechanisms, such as OAuth or HTTP Cookies, depending on the particular cloud provider offerings. Use of these authentication mechanisms and user data is governed by the privacy policies mentioned in the [Resources & Further Information](/privacy/#resources-further-information) section and followed by the privacy policy of Rclone.

* Rclone provides the end user with access to their files available in a storage system associated by the authentication credentials via the publicly exposed API of the storage system.
* Rclone allows storing the authentication credentials on the user machine in the local configuration file.
* Rclone does not share any user data with third parties.

## Resources & Further Information ##

  * [Data Protection Act 1998](http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/29/contents)
  * [Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003](http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/2426/contents/made)
  * [Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 - The Guide](https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-pecr/)
  * [Twitter Privacy Policy](https://twitter.com/privacy)
  * [Facebook Privacy Policy](https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/)
  * [Google Privacy Policy](https://www.google.com/privacy.html)
  * [Google API Services User Data Policy](https://developers.google.com/terms/api-services-user-data-policy)
  * [Sample Website Privacy Policy](http://www.jamieking.co.uk/resources/free_sample_privacy_policy.html)
