Privacy Policy

This Website (freed.wtf)

This marketing site is a static Next.js application hosted on Vercel. Like any web host, Vercel's infrastructure logs standard HTTP request metadata (your IP address, browser user-agent, timestamp, and the URL requested) as part of their CDN operation. This data is governed by Vercel's Privacy Policy.

We do not run any analytics software, advertising pixels, tracking scripts, or session recorders on this site. There is no cookie consent banner because there are no cookies to consent to. If you subscribe to release notifications, your email address is stored via our newsletter provider solely for that purpose and nothing else.

The Freed Application

Freed is local-first software. When you use it:

• Your feed data stays on your device.Posts captured from X, RSS, YouTube, or any other source are written to local storage: IndexedDB in the browser, the filesystem in the desktop app. None of this ever touches our infrastructure, because we have no infrastructure to touch.
• Zero telemetry.There are no analytics calls, no crash reporters phoning home, no feature flags fetched from a remote server, no usage statistics transmitted anywhere. The app runs entirely air-gapped from any backend we operate.
• No account required.Freed does not have a sign-up flow, a user database, or a concept of "your profile" on our servers. There is no profile on our servers. There are no servers.
• Your credentials never leave your device.Freed accesses social platforms through your own authenticated browser sessions. Credentials are stored in your local keychain or browser storage and never transmitted to us.

Data Sync: Your Cloud, Your Keys

If you enable cross-device sync, your Freed data is backed up to cloud storage you already own: Google Drive, iCloud, or Dropbox. The data is encrypted with a passphrase only you know before it ever leaves your device. We cannot read it. We cannot be compelled to hand it over, because we do not have it.

The local sync relay (desktop-to-phone) operates on your local network. It does not route through any server we operate.

Open Source Transparency

Every claim in this policy is verifiable by reading the code. Freed is MIT licensed and fully open source. There is no proprietary backend, no closed-source analytics module, no obfuscated telemetry lurking in a build artifact. If you see something in the code that contradicts this policy, open an issue. We will fix it.

Third-Party Services

Freed captures content from third-party platforms (X, YouTube, RSS feeds, etc.) on your behalf, using your own authenticated session. By doing so, you remain subject to those platforms' terms of service and privacy policies. Freed does not aggregate or transmit that content anywhere. It stays local. The act of accessing it is governed by each platform's relationship with you, not with us.

Children's Privacy

Freed is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect any personal information from children. Given our local-first architecture, we are not positioned to collect anyone's personal information, but we state this explicitly for compliance clarity.

Changes to This Policy

If we ever change anything material here (which would require us to build infrastructure we currently don't have), we'll update the effective date at the top and post a note in the Updates section. The full history of changes is visible in the public git repository.