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Privacy and uninstall - Plugixa Advanced User Role Editor
This page lists what the plugin keeps on your site, what happens to it when you deactivate or uninstall, and what leaves your site. The short version: nothing about your roles, permissions or users is sent anywhere, and uninstalling removes the plugin’s own data but never the roles you edited.
What the plugin stores
Everything is stored in your own WordPress database. Every name starts with
plugixa_aure_.
Site settings
| Stored | What it holds |
|---|---|
| Settings | The choices on the Settings screen, and which features are switched on. |
| Redirects | The rules from Login redirects. |
| Permissions added by you | The names of permissions you added by hand. |
| Admin screen index | A copy of the admin menu and the permission each screen needs, used by the Health screen. |
| Role move progress | The state of a “move everyone to another role” job while it runs. |
| Version markers | Which version of the plugin and its database table are set up. |
| People counts | A short-lived cache of how many people hold each role. |
The Pro edition adds its own: admin menu rules, screen clean-up rules and the list of screen items it has seen, and the activity log settings. PRO
Database tables
| Table | What it holds |
|---|---|
| Restore points | For each point: the date, who made the change, a full copy of every role and its permissions at that moment, and what the change did. For the people a change touched (up to 500 per point), their roles and own permissions as they were before. |
| Activity log PRO | The entries shown in the Activity log. |
On user accounts
| Stored on the account | When | What it holds |
|---|---|---|
| First sign-in marker | At an account’s first sign-in while Redirects is switched on | The time, so the “first time” redirect is used only once. |
| Recovery link | Only when somebody runs the rescue command for that account | A hashed token and its expiry time. Both are deleted when the link is used or has expired. |
Restore points refer to people by their account, so History can show names.
Changes to WordPress’s own data
These are not the plugin’s data; they are your site’s configuration.
- The roles and permissions you edit, create and delete.
- The roles and extra permissions on people’s accounts.
- The plugin’s own four permissions (view, edit roles, edit people, manage settings), given to Administrator on activation and to any role you tick under Who can use this editor.
Every change to roles and people is made through WordPress’s own role functions.
Deactivating
Deactivating stops the plugin’s scheduled tasks and keeps everything else:
- your roles and every change made to them;
- settings, redirects and restore points;
- the plugin’s own permissions on roles, so you can reactivate and open the editor straight away.
Blocks you set keep working while the plugin is deactivated, because they are stored the way WordPress itself understands.
Uninstalling
Deleting the plugin from the Plugins screen removes what the plugin owns:
| Removed | |
|---|---|
| All of its settings and other options | Including redirects, feature switches and Pro rules. |
| Restore points and History | The whole table. |
| The activity log PRO | The whole table. |
| Its markers on user accounts | First sign-in markers and any recovery link. |
| Its scheduled tasks | |
| Its own permissions | Taken off every role. |
On multisite this is done for every site in the network.
What uninstalling deliberately keeps
Your roles stay exactly as you left them. Every role you created, every permission you granted, removed or blocked, and every role or extra permission on a person’s account remains. Changes made with the plugin are your site’s configuration, not the plugin’s, and reverting them on uninstall would silently change who can do what.
Two consequences:
- Restore points do not survive. After uninstalling there is no History to restore from. If you want a copy of your roles, use Export and import first and keep the file.
- Redirects stop. They are the plugin’s own feature and its rules are removed.
Free and Pro side by side
If you install the Pro edition and then delete the free one (or the other way round), nothing is removed while the other edition is still active. The remaining edition keeps its settings and restore points.
External services
The plugin connects to one third-party service, and only for licensing and updates.
Freemius
Freemius is used for licence activation, plugin updates and an optional opt-in.
- On activation you are shown an opt-in screen. If you skip it, no identifiable data is sent.
- When you activate a licence or check for an update, your site URL, the
plugin and SDK versions and your licence key are sent to
https://api.freemius.com. - If you opt in, the data that screen lists is sent to the same address: your WordPress user’s first and last name and email address; your site’s homepage URL and title, WordPress and PHP versions and site language; the plugin’s version and whether it is active or uninstalled; and, unless you switch that item off on the opt-in screen, the names, slugs and versions of your installed plugins and themes and whether each is active.
Terms of service: https://freemius.com/terms/ - Privacy policy: https://freemius.com/privacy/
Nothing else
There is no other outbound request. Nothing about your roles, capabilities or users’ permissions is sent to Freemius or anywhere else. Fonts and icons are served from your own site; nothing is loaded from a CDN.
The plugin has no front end. It adds no shortcodes, blocks or public pages.
What to do next
- Keep a copy of your roles with Export and import.
- See how restore points work in History and restore.
- On a network, read Multisite.