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Safety & compliance

Built to protect the people who trust it.

Our members may be on parole or probation, and some are not citizens. We designed for them first.

We can’t read it.Journals, moods and messages are locked on the phone, with keys we never have.
We don’t report it.No link to parole, probation, courts, police, or immigration.
People check it.A co-creator approves every new member and reviews every flagged post.

Open a section for the detail.

What we cannot read
  • Journal, moods, plans, and profile are encrypted on the phone.
  • Messages open only on the two phones in the conversation. We see who and when, not what.
  • Your passphrase never leaves the phone, and new ones are checked against breach lists.
  • No IP addresses in our logs. Usage counting is off unless you turn it on.

For engineers: PBKDF2-SHA256 (600,000 rounds), AES-256-GCM, ECDH P-256 message keys, k-anonymity breach checks.

No link to the system
  • We never volunteer information to parole, probation, courts, police, or immigration.
  • We answer only valid legal process, and we tell the member first.
  • We will not build a way into locked data.
We cannot provideWe may have
Messages, journals, moods, plansThat an account exists, and when it was made
Release date, hometown, locationWho is connected to whom
Passphrases and IP addressesHelp out posts and reports

This is our written policy.

Who gets in
  • Only the co-creators have access to who gets in, and the database enforces that.
  • A co-creator approves every new member by hand.
  • Every co-creator decision and data view is logged.
  • Dashboard sessions end after 15 idle minutes.
Keeping people safe
  • Posts get automatic and AI checks, and dangerous ones are held for a person.
  • You can block or report anyone, and new accounts can send only a few requests a day.
  • No streaks, likes, or follower counts.
  • 988, 911, and quick hide are always one tap away.
Your rights
  • Download or delete your data.
  • Block anyone, hide, or turn off being found.
  • Adults 18 and over. Bigger text, offline use, English and Español.
Where we are
  • Legal documents are written and in the app, but still waiting for a lawyer’s review.
  • We are in a small pilot, testing on real phones.
  • We are confirming our AI review vendors’ terms and strengthening co-creator sign-in.

Nothing here is legal advice.

Questions from a partner or funder?