Privacy Policy

This explains what happens to your information when you play Corridors, a game made by Augustine Interactive. The short version is that Corridors runs on your own machine and keeps to itself. If anything below raises a question, there is a contact link at the end.

Who we are

Corridors is made and published by Augustine Interactive, a small independent studio based in the United Kingdom. For the purposes of this policy, Augustine Interactive is the party responsible for your information, the "data controller" under UK GDPR. You can reach us through the contact link at the end of this page.

Your files stay yours

Corridors can take a folder on your computer and turn it into a space you walk through, with your own files shown on the walls. This part matters most, so we want to be plain about it.

• The game only ever reads the files and folders you point it at. It does not change, move, rename or delete any of them.
• Everything it does with those files happens on your device and stays on your screen. Nothing about your files, their names, their contents, or the folders you choose is transmitted, uploaded or shared.
• We never see any of it. There is no server on our side that could receive it, because the game does not send it.

If you point Corridors at your own folders, what you see is for your eyes only.

What the game keeps on your device

Corridors saves a small amount of data locally so it can remember your setup between sessions. This sits on your own computer, in your control, and you can delete it whenever you like.

• Settings. Your options and preferences, so the game starts the way you left it.
• Profiles. Optional, and switched off by default. If you turn a profile on, the game can keep things such as a thumbnail cache built from your own media, and the points where you stopped, so images load quickly and videos resume where you left them. Scores and saved progress live here too.

None of this is sent to us or to anyone else. Removing the game's data folder, or the profile, removes it.

Analytics and tracking

Corridors keeps no analytics. It does not track how you use it, report crashes, or send any usage data, and there is no advertising or profiling of any kind. We do not build a picture of you, and we have nothing about you to sell or hand on.

One thing worth being clear about, since it is easy to misread: the game does time each run. A per-run timer is part of how Corridors plays and how runs are scored, so of course it counts the clock while you play. That timer stays on your device. The only time a run time goes anywhere is in the Steam version, when a score is recorded for an achievement or submitted to a Steam leaderboard, where the time is the whole point of the entry. It is never used to watch how long you spend in the game or to build any kind of profile, and it serves no purpose beyond the game itself and its scoreboards.

The Steam build and Steam's part in it

If you play the version bought through Steam, the Steam client and Steam's services take part the same way they do for any Steam game.

• Achievements you earn are recorded through Steam.
• Corridors has online leaderboards, and they run entirely on Steam's own leaderboard service. Everything sent for them goes to Steam and stops there. We run no server of our own, so none of it reaches us, and it is handled under Valve's privacy policy.
• When a score goes to a leaderboard, Steam ties it to your Steam account in the usual way, which is how it can appear next to your name. What is submitted is your score and game stats such as run time, nothing about your files or folders.
• If Steam Cloud is enabled for the game, Steam may back up your local Corridors data, such as saves and settings, to your Steam account. That copy is managed by Steam.
• What we receive from Valve is limited to the rounded, non-identifying reports Steam gives every developer, such as rough sales and wishlist figures. These do not identify individual players.

Your Steam account, and the data Steam holds about you, are covered by Valve's Privacy Policy: store.steampowered.com/privacy_agreement. Requests about Steam-held data should go to Valve.

Your rights

Under UK GDPR, and comparable rules such as the EU GDPR and the California Consumer Privacy Act, you have rights over personal information a company holds about you, including the right to see it, correct it, or have it deleted.

The honest position here is that we do not collect or hold personal information about you. Your files, settings and profiles live on your own device, where you can view or delete them yourself at any time. Because nothing on our end is tied to you, most such requests have nothing for us to act on. Even so, you are welcome to ask, and we will reply.

For anything Steam holds about you, such as your account, purchases, achievements or leaderboard entries, those requests should go to Valve under their policy, since that data is theirs to manage.

Keeping data safe

The data Corridors creates stays on your device, so protecting it mostly comes down to your own computer's security. We do not run servers that store your information, so there is no player database on our side to be lost or breached.

Playing from outside the UK

Corridors is available worldwide. Wherever you play from, the game behaves the same and keeps your data on your device. Where Steam is involved, any handling of Steam account data across borders is done by Valve under their policy.