Kabootar privacy policy
Offline mesh messaging. Messages hop phone to phone, with no server anywhere.
What is collected
Nothing. Kabootar has no account system, no analytics, no telemetry and no server of ours. Nothing about you or your browsing is collected, transmitted to us, sold, or shared with anyone.
What is stored, and where
Everything below stays inside your own browser profile on your own device.
- Your messages, your chats and the display name you chose, on the devices that hold them: yours, and the recipient’s.
None of it is written to Chrome's synced storage, so it does not travel to your Google account or to your other machines. Uninstalling the extension removes it.
What it connects to
- Nothing. Kabootar has no backend, so there is no host for it to talk to at all.
Permissions, and why each one exists
| Bluetooth, scan, advertise and connect | Finding nearby phones and passing messages to them. This is how the app works rather than an extra. |
| Location | Android requires location permission before an app may scan for Bluetooth devices. Kabootar does not read your location, does not store it and does not send it anywhere. |
| Nearby Wi-Fi devices | The Wi-Fi side of the same transport, used for faster hops. |
| Foreground service | Carrying and relaying messages while your screen is off, which is what lets a message reach somebody you were never in range of at the same moment. |
| Notifications | Telling you a message arrived. |
Worth knowing
- The one thing worth understanding about a mesh: a message on its way to somebody is relayed by other people’s phones. Those phones carry it and pass it on. This is stated in the app on the Mesh screen, and it is the mechanism rather than a side effect.
- There is no account, no phone number and no SIM required, so there is no identity for anyone to look up.
- Because there is no server, there is nothing for anybody to hand over, subpoena or lose in a breach. There is also nobody to recover your messages if you lose the phone.
Children
Kabootar is not directed at children and collects no personal information from anyone, of any age.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date below changes with it. Anything that would alter what is collected or transmitted would ship as a new version, with the change described in the extension's changelog.
Contact
Questions about this policy, or a request about your data: royalpinto007@gmail.com.
The source is public, so every claim on this page can be checked against it: royalpinto007/Kabootar.