Privacy and Security Statement

This is not a legally binding document. It is for informational purposes only.

Connection to external services

Smash Hit™ Blender® Tools developers do not store personal information unless you explicitly provide it to us; however, there are some features of Blender Tools that connect to the internet which may collect personally identifiable information:

• The automatic updater requests files from GitHub servers in some cases. Please see GitHub's privacy statement.
• You can also view the update info file.

Automatic update security issues reporting

There has currently been no external security audit. If you find an issue or want to preform an audit, please report it to one of the following:

• Knot126 via Discord: Click to see name
• Knot126 via Email: Click to see email

If you send an email or DM about non-security related issues, you will most likely be blocked. Please keep discussion public unless it is sensitive.

Hosting or creating local network services

There are also features which require hosting a webserver, which might be exposed to the public if your network is configured incorrectly:

• The quick test feature requires hosting a webserver which does not serve anything but files at semi-hardcoded file paths.

Disabling parts of Blender Tools that use network connectivity

It is possible to disable parts of Blender Tools that require network connections. Please see the below sections for information on how to disable these features.

For version 2.1.0 and later

Go to the Blender Addon Preferences (Edit → Add ons), then find Smash Hit Tools. You can find options to disable and enable the update notifier, the auto-updater and the quick test server.

Previous versions

Please see Disable Quick Test and/or Updater on 2.0.x.

Disable Quick Test and/or Updater on 2.0.x

Disable the quick test server (before 2.1.0)

If you would like to disable the quick test server:

• find the Blender addons folder
• open blender_tools.py in a text editor
• find the line that says g_process_test_server = True
• replace True with False
• save the file

You will need to do this every time you update Blender Tools.

Disable the update notifier (before 2.1.0)

If you would like to disable the update notifier:

• find the Blender addons folder
• open common.py in a text editor
• find the line that says UPDATE_INFO = "https://smashing-tech.github.io/Smash-Hit-Blender-Tools/update.json"
• replace the line with UPDATE_INFO = ""

• save the file

You will need to do this every time you update Blender Tools.