Privacy

Privacy

Last updated October 23, 2026. Who is responsible: Styves Goupil, Québec, Canada, who makes FRASIL. Write to [email protected] for anything below.

What the River keeps

• Your email: to sign you in, to confirm it is yours, and to send you a link if you forget your password. It is never shown to anyone, and never used for anything else: no newsletter, no marketing.
• Your display name: it is public, shown as the author of the shards you share.
• Your password, never as you typed it: only a one-way hash (argon2id), which no one can turn back into it. If you sign in with Google, the River keeps only your email and your name from it.
• What you put in it: your shards (FRASIL scenes, and the name and description you give them), your backups (the FM-1’s scenes and settings), and your favorites (the shared shards you star).
• Your sessions: one cookie keeps you signed in (90 days after your last visit). The River keeps only a hash of it. There are no other cookies: no analytics, no ads, no tracking. Your browser also keeps your display name, so the header shows it at once on every page; signing out forgets it. The pages call no outside service: even their fonts are served by FRASIL’s own sites.
• Counts and reports: how often a shared shard is played, sent and favorited, and the reports people send. To count each person once and to stop abuse, the River keeps a salted, shortened hash of the network address, never the address itself.

What you share

A shard stays private, in your River, until you share it. Once shared, anyone can see it, play it, send it to their FM-1 and favorite it, with your display name as its author. Unsharing takes it out of the River; copies others saved stay theirs (see the licence, below).

Where, and who helps

• The River runs on a server of Hetzner, in Helsinki, Finland. Its database is backed up every night, and the backups are kept 30 days.
• Cloudflare carries the traffic to the site (it sees the network addresses that reach it).
• Zoho sends the River’s emails (it sees the address an email goes to).
• Google, only if you choose “Continue with Google”.

None of them gets anything else from the River, and nothing is ever sold.

Taking it back

• Export: Your River › Account gives you everything the River keeps about you, in one file: your account, your shards (as a scene package) and your backups.
• Delete: Your River › Account › Delete the account removes your account, your shards and your backups at once. They leave the nightly backups within 30 days.
• Correct: change your display name or password there too; for anything else, write to [email protected].

These are your rights under Québec’s privacy law (Law 25) and, if you live in Europe, under the GDPR. If you are under 14, ask a parent before you create an account.

Terms

• What you upload is yours. Upload only shards you made, or that you may share.
• Sharing a shard publishes it under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence: anyone may use it, change it and share it, as long as they name you as its author. Shards you favorite or send from the River come with the same licence: name their author when you use them.
• Be kind. No hateful, illegal or misleading names or descriptions. Shards can be reported; the River may hide or remove any shard, and close an account that abuses it.
• Your FM-1. Putting a backup or a shard back replaces what is in the slots you choose (or, for a whole backup, all its scenes and settings). The FM-1 asks before it does; keep a backup of what matters to you.
• As it is. The River and FRASIL are made by one person and offered as they are, with no warranty. The River may change, or stop; if it is to close, you will be told first, with time to export what you keep in it.
• FRASIL itself is free software under the Mozilla Public License 2.0. M-VAVE and FM-1 are trademarks of their owners; FRASIL is not affiliated with M-VAVE.
• These terms follow the laws of Québec, Canada.