1. Summary
Rippex is a desktop wallet with no user accounts. You do not register, you do not give us an email address, and you never send us a key. There is no server-side wallet database because there is no server in the transaction path.
Three places hold data when you use Rippex: your own computer (wallet file, settings), the rippled node you connect to (which sees your requests and your IP address), and the public XRP Ledger (which records validated transactions permanently for anyone to read).
2. Data that stays on your device
Your encrypted wallet file, containing the family seed and the account address, encrypted with a key derived from your passphrase. It is written where you chose to save it and is never transmitted by the application.
Application settings, such as the rippled node address, display currency and window state.
Transient data in memory while the wallet is unlocked: the decrypted seed used for signing, the account balance and the transaction being prepared. This is discarded when the wallet is closed.
We have no access to any of this. Deleting the application directory and your wallet file removes it, so keep an offline backup of the seed first.
3. What we do not collect
We do not collect or store your secret key, family seed, passphrase or wallet file. We do not maintain user accounts, profiles or balances. We do not sell, rent or share personal data, because we do not hold it. There is no key escrow and no recovery service — technically as well as contractually.
4. Data visible to the rippled node you use
To show balances and submit transactions, the wallet opens a WebSocket connection to an XRP Ledger node. That node necessarily sees your IP address, the account addresses you query and the signed transactions you submit, and it may log them under its own operator's policy.
Public nodes are operated by independent third parties, not by us. If you prefer that no third party observes this traffic, configure the wallet to use your own rippled instance, or reach a node through a network of your choice.
5. The public ledger is permanent
Every validated XRP Ledger transaction — sender address, destination address, amount, fee, destination tag, memo field and timestamp — is stored in a public, immutable ledger replicated worldwide. It cannot be edited, hidden or erased, by us or by anyone else.
Ledger records are pseudonymous, not anonymous. Anyone who links an r-address to your identity, for example through an exchange deposit or a published address, can then read that account's entire history. Never place personal information in a memo field, and use a separate account when you want activity kept apart.
6. This website
The website serves static pages and downloads. Standard web-server request logs, which may include IP address, requested URL, referrer and user agent, may be produced by the hosting provider for security and operational purposes and are retained only as long as needed for those purposes.
We do not use advertising trackers or cross-site profiling. If a page embeds a third-party resource such as a font or a code repository link, that provider receives the request when your browser loads or follows it, under its own privacy policy.
7. Children
The software is not directed at children. Because no accounts exist and no personal data is collected by the application, we do not knowingly hold data relating to a child.
8. Your rights
Where data-protection law such as the GDPR applies, you have rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, objection and portability over personal data a controller holds about you.
In practice these rights have little to act on here: the application holds your data locally under your own control, and the public ledger is not a database we operate or can amend. Requests concerning server logs should be sent through the project's published contact channel. Never include your seed, secret key or wallet file in a request.
9. Changes to this notice
This notice may be updated when the software or the website changes. Material changes will be reflected on this page. Continuing to use the software after a change indicates acceptance of the updated notice.
