Privacy
This site keeps nothing about you. CF Gaming keeps what it needs on your Mac: here's what, and what it connects to.
This site
- No cookies, no analytics, no adverts, and nothing from other companies loaded into your browser.
- It's served by Cloudflare, which handles each visit to deliver the page, under Cloudflare's privacy policy.
- The download comes from GitHub, which counts each download, under GitHub's privacy statement.
What CF Gaming keeps, on your Mac
- Your cases and their games, each case a folder of its own; Settings › About shows where.
- The people who play, with their colours and photos: CF Gaming keeps a small copy of each photo, on this Mac.
- Recordings, in Movies › CF Gaming unless you choose another folder. Only the game's window and sound are recorded, with voices if you turn them on, and only once macOS has allowed it.
- Its settings, and its logs, which say what went wrong when something doesn't start (Help › Show Logs).
CF Gaming has no analytics: nothing in it counts or reports how you use it.
What it connects to, and when
- Updates: once a day, CF Gaming looks for a new version on its GitHub page. Settings › Updates can turn that off.
- What you set up: Steam's installer from Valve; RetroArch, its files and its cores from libretro; the other emulators from their makers; CF Gaming's own build of Mupen64Plus-Next from its GitHub page.
- RetroArch's own files: Settings › RetroArch compares CF Gaming's copies with libretro's site when you open it, and downloads the ones that changed only when you ask.
- Covers, only when you choose Download Covers…, from libretro-thumbnails, on libretro's server or on GitHub.
- Steam and your games connect as they would on a PC, under their own makers' policies.
It never downloads BIOS files or games.