Your data stays yours

The add-on

World of Warcraft add-ons have no internet access. Trailwright itself sends nothing over the internet. What it learns stays in its saved files on your own PC: _forever_\WTF\Account\<account>\SavedVariables\Trailwright.lua, plus a small one per character for Shortest Path.

What it keeps there, to plan better for you:

• Kill pace and quest XP: how fast your objectives tick up, and what hand-ins really pay.
• Play log (only in the "with data helper" download): pick-ups, finished objectives, hand-ins, levels and deaths, with time played, level and where you were, plus what it observed (mob sightings, empty spawn spots, objective wording the data doesn't match). The normal download keeps none of this.
• Quests the data lacks: what you see of quests that aren't in its data yet.
• Gold: your auction scans, your loot log, and the vendor lists you've seen.
• Your characters' played time and what you've done on the route.

Inside the game

Add-ons can send small messages to other players' copies of the same add-on, through the game:

• Party routes: your quest log is shared with party members who run Trailwright, so one route can be planned for everyone.
• Shortest Path Forever (built in) shares transport sightings and travel stats with your guild, group and nearby players.

Optional data helper

A separate "Trailwright + data helper" download adds a small program that, after you close the game, sends your Trailwright saved data (play log and observations, learned quests, loot log) and the game's quest cache to the Trailwright team, only when they changed. It's off unless you install it, character names are replaced by short codes before sending, and Stop helper.cmd turns it off. The data is used only to fix routes and quest data.

Removing your data

• Delete Trailwright.lua from the folders above to remove everything it learned.
• The Gold window's Loot log has "Reset log" for the loot log alone.

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