Last updated: 1 November 2026
whitcortex-backup is a personal backup tool used by one person, its owner. This page describes what it does with Google user data.
It uses one Google permission, drive.file. That scope limits it to files the app creates itself, or that the owner explicitly opens with it or shares with it. The app has no file picker, so in practice it works only with the files it created. It cannot access any other file, and it doesn't access Gmail, contacts, calendar or any other Google service.
It uses the data only to store, list, verify, restore and delete the owner's own backups. Old backups are deleted automatically according to the owner's retention settings. Backup data is encrypted on the owner's computer before upload.
No data is shared with, sold to, or transferred to anyone. No data is used for advertising, analytics, profiling or training machine-learning models.
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Backups stay in the owner's own Google Drive, in a folder named kopia. The app has no servers of its own. On the owner's computer it keeps only a local cache and its sign-in credentials.
Backups are kept according to the owner's retention settings. To stop all access and delete the data:
kopia folder from My Drive, then empty the Drive trash. Until the trash is emptied, Google keeps deleted files for 30 days.whitcortex-backup's use of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
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