What Lodge keeps.

What we keep

• Your account: email address, username, password (hashed with Argon2, never stored as typed), and the bio and profile picture you choose to add.
• Your people: friend requests, friendships, who you’ve blocked, and any reports you file.
• Your Lodges: the Rooms you make or join and what you put in them: decorations, photos, posters, sounds, memories from the photo booth, shared levels and invite links.
• Messages you send in chats and Lodges, with their reactions and read markers.
• Notification addresses for the browsers and phones you turn notifications on for, so knocks and calls can reach them.
• Small counters that keep the service healthy (how many calls started today, how many notifications failed) and which days your account was active. These are not ads data and are never sold or shared.

What we don’t keep

• Calls are never recorded. Video and audio go directly between the people on the call (peer to peer, encrypted by WebRTC). When a direct path isn’t possible they pass through a relay server that forwards the encrypted stream without being able to watch or store it.
• Camera effects like backgrounds and body tracking run on your own device. The camera image is not uploaded for them.
• No ads, no ad trackers, no selling or renting your data to anyone. Ever.

Who else touches it

• Apple (iPhone app) and Google (Android app) deliver notifications. They see that a notification was sent to your device and its text, like “Ada is at the door”.
• Browser push services (Apple, Google, Mozilla, Microsoft) do the same for the website.
• If you search for music or GIFs, your search text goes to YouTube or KLIPY to find results. The weather in your Lodge window uses Open-Meteo with the place name you pick.
• Feedback you send with the Feedback button goes to our issue tracker (Linear) so we can fix things.

Your controls

• Download everything Lodge has about you from Settings, any time.
• Delete your account from Settings. It removes your account, your messages and any Lodge nobody else is in (a shared Lodge passes to another member), and it cannot be undone.
• Turn notifications off per device in Settings, or in your phone’s settings.
• Block or report anyone from their profile. Blocked people can’t call, knock, message or find you.

Kids

• Lodge isn’t meant for children under 13, and we don’t knowingly keep accounts for them. If you think one exists, tell us and we’ll remove it.

Questions

Use the Feedback button inside Lodge and it comes straight to us. If this policy changes in a way that matters, we’ll say so in the app before it takes effect.