What we do and don't do with your data
An email and a password, or a Google sign-in. No phone number. No government ID. Ever.
No ads, no ad partners, no data brokers. What your community says on Hearth is not a revenue source.
The app doesn't phone home about your usage unless you switch that on yourself.
The things that make the product work: your account, your messages, your hearths and their settings. Stored to serve them back to you and your community, nothing else.
Full export of your community in open formats, any time. Deleting your account means deleting, not archiving.
Reports of child-safety violations are handled directly and reported to the authorities as the law requires. That duty outranks everything above.
The formal privacy policy is a legal document and gets written as one before launch.