Privacy

This page is in English while its translation is reviewed.

porch keeps only what it needs to run porch. No ads, no trackers, and nothing sold.

Last updated October 8, 2026

What porch keeps

• Your account. Your name, handle, email address, and your password as a one-way hash, never the password itself.
• Your page and badge. Everything you put on them, including photos.
• What you post and say. Posts, updates and messages in rooms.
• Who you know. Friends, requests, follows, vouches, and the people you met by scanning a code.
• Photos. Your browser removes location data from photos before they’re uploaded.
• Signed-in devices. A short name like “Safari on iPhone”, so you can sign the others out.
• What you’ve read. Which posts you’ve opened, so porch can show what’s new.

porch also briefly counts sign-in tries from each internet address to stop password guessing. It doesn’t keep those addresses.

Who sees what

• Your page is public, except sections you mark for friends.
• Your porch light and status are for your friends only.
• A room is seen by the people who can see its post.
• Your email address is never shown to anyone.

What porch doesn’t do

porch doesn’t show ads, doesn’t sell or share your information for advertising, and doesn’t use analytics or tracking scripts. It sets one cookie to keep you signed in, and stores small settings, like your theme, in your browser.

Other companies

• Hosting. porch’s servers and backups run with a hosting provider, who stores the data for porch and nothing else.
• Email. Password reset emails go out through an email delivery service.
• Music. When you paste a music link in the editor, porch asks that service for the song’s name and artwork. A visitor’s browser only connects to Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube or SoundCloud when they tap play.
• Website verification. When a brand verifies its website, porch checks the website’s DNS records.

porch shares information when the law requires it, or to protect someone from serious harm.

Your choices

• See and change it. Edit your page and badge any time.
• Take a copy. Settings, then Download your data.
• Delete it. Settings, then Delete account. Your account, page, posts, messages and photos are deleted right away. Daily backups roll off within two weeks.

Depending on where you live, you may have more rights over your data. To use them, use Report on the page or post in question.

Children

porch isn’t for children under 13. If porch learns an account belongs to a child under 13, it deletes the account.

Keeping it safe

porch only runs over HTTPS, stores passwords as slow one-way hashes, and keeps only a fingerprint of each sign-in token. No system is perfect; if porch ever has a breach that affects you, it will tell you.

Changes

When this page changes in a way that matters, porch says so on porch first. The date at the top shows the latest version.