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Privacy policy — Recalbox

Version 2 — published 31 October 2026

1. Who we are

Recalbox is published by Recalbox. Questions about your data and requests to exercise your rights are sent to legal@recalbox.com.

2. Recalbox on your console

Recalbox runs on your own hardware. Your games, saves and settings, and the accounts you link to it, stay on that device.

3. Recalbox Online

What Recalbox Online shows publicly — your nickname, your scores, your results and the matches you play — is described in its terms of use.

4. Recalbox TV and YouTube

Recalbox TV can show your YouTube account on your TV once you link it.

  • What we access. With your permission, given on Google's own page, Recalbox reads your YouTube data in read-only mode: your channel's name and picture, your subscriptions, your playlists, your liked videos, the public videos and playlists of channels, and the results of the searches you type. Recalbox never posts, likes, subscribes or changes anything on your account.
  • How we use it. Only to show these lists on your TV and to play the videos you choose, with the official YouTube player.
  • Where it is kept. On your Recalbox only: the access granted by Google, and the title, picture and resume position of the videos you started. Nothing from your YouTube account is sent to Recalbox's servers, shared with anyone, sold, or used for advertising.
  • Removing it. Unlinking YouTube in Recalbox TV deletes this access from your Recalbox. You can also revoke Recalbox's access at any time at myaccount.google.com/permissions.

Recalbox TV uses YouTube API Services. By linking your account you agree to the YouTube Terms of Service. Google's Privacy Policy applies to the data Google holds.

5. Audience of recalbox.com

recalbox.com counts its own audience, with no third party and no cookie: the pages read, how long they stay in front of you, the site you came from, your language, whether you read on a phone or a computer, and the links you follow out of the site, such as the shop. To count visitors, your address and browser are mixed with a key drawn each day and destroyed the next; the result recognises you for one day only, and neither your address nor that key is kept. These measurements are kept at most 25 months and serve only to improve the site. Browsers that send "Do Not Track" or "Global Privacy Control" are not counted.

6. Changes

Any change to this policy is published on this page, with its date.

Privacy policy — Recalbox, Recalbox Online and Recalbox TV