fridge

privacy

last changed 15 november 2026

the short version: fridge keeps as little about you as it can and still work. no ads, no tracking, no selling your data, and nothing you post trains any AI. i'm zac, i make and run fridge on my own, in pennsylvania, usa. if you have a question about any of this, email [email protected].

everything you post is public

fridge has no private accounts. your handle, your bio, your face photo, the photos and clips you post, their captions, and the photos you vouch for can be seen by anyone using fridge. when you vouch for a photo, your handle and face go on it. don't post anything you wouldn't want strangers to see.

no photo is ever on the web. a link to your fridge, befridge.app/@you, only says what fridge is and opens the app.

what fridge keeps

• your account: your handle, your bio, and your face photo, taken with the front camera.
• your passkey: fridge stores only its public half. the private half stays on your phone or in your password manager. there's no password.
• what you post: photos and clips, their captions, when you posted them, and whether they were taken in the fridge camera or picked from your camera roll. before a photo is stored, its metadata is stripped, including any location.
• what you do: who you follow, what you vouch for and who you got it from, who you block, what you report, and which photos in your feed you've seen.
• your phone: whether it's an iphone or android, a key the app makes on the phone, and Apple's or Google's confirmation that the app is running on a real device. this stops fake accounts and fake photos. it doesn't identify you.
• notifications: if you turn them on, a token from Apple or Google so fridge can send them.
• sign-in: a session, so you stay signed in. sessions unused for 90 days expire.
• server logs: like any website, the servers fridge runs on see your IP address and keep it in their logs for a short time, to keep the service running and stop abuse.

what fridge doesn't collect

• name, email or phone number
• contacts or address book
• location, from the phone or from your photos
• advertising ids, tracking, or third-party analytics
• face recognition. your face photo is a picture, nothing reads it.
• your camera roll. you pick photos one at a time with the system picker; fridge sees only the one you pick.

what fridge never does with it

• sell it, rent it, or share it for advertising.
• use your photos to train AI, or let anyone else do it.
• show you anything chosen by a machine. your feed is the people you follow and what they vouched for.

who else handles it

fridge runs on a few services that store or move data for it, and only for that:

• Cloudflare: the website, storing and serving photos, protection from attacks, and scanning uploads for child sexual abuse material.
• Railway: the servers and the database.
• Apple and Google: passkeys, confirming the device is real, and delivering notifications (Google's Firebase Cloud Messaging).

i'll hand over information if the law requires it, for example a valid court order, and to report child sexual abuse material to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, which the law requires.

deleting

delete a post and it's gone at once, from everyone's feed and from the cache, wherever it travelled. take back a vouch and your face comes off the photo.

delete your account in the app and everything of yours goes at once: your profile, your posts, your vouches, your follows. backups keep a copy for up to 7 days, then it's gone. your passkey stays on your phone until you remove it there. records the law makes me keep, such as a report of child sexual abuse material, are kept as long as it says.

your rights

you can see almost everything fridge has about you in the app, and delete all of it yourself. for a copy of your data, or anything the app doesn't do, email [email protected] with your handle. since there's no email on your account, i'll ask you to prove it's yours in the app before sending anything, and answer within 30 days. wherever you live, you get the same answer: californians, europeans, everyone.

age

fridge is for people 18 and over. if i learn an account belongs to someone younger, i delete it.

changes

if this changes, the new version goes here with a new date. if it's a big change, the app will say so before it applies.