# Privacy & Data Sovereignty

Last Updated: February 17, 2026

Profiting from surveillance is strictly against our principles. We reject the "attention economy" model entirely.

## 1. Data Sovereignty

We do not sell your data. We do not license your data. We do not provide your data to third-party analytics, advertising, or data brokerage firms. Your content is not indexed on public search engines. Sojorn is a private community designed to protect your posts and identity from the extractivist economy.

## 2. What We Collect

We collect only what is technically necessary to operate the Service: your email address (authentication), birth month & year (age verification), display name & handle (profile identity), content you create (displayed to your chosen audience), approximate location for Beacons only (ephemeral), and device push tokens (notifications). We do not collect precise GPS location outside of Beacons, contact lists, browsing history, biometric data, or financial information.

## 3. Third-Party Services

We use Firebase (authentication, push notifications), Cloudflare R2 (media storage), SendPulse (newsletter delivery, opt-in only), and OpenAI / Google Vision (content moderation on public posts only). We do not use third-party tracking pixels, cross-site cookies, behavioral analytics, or advertising SDKs.

## 4. Zero-Knowledge Encryption

Private messages and encrypted capsule content are protected by end-to-end encryption (E2EE) using keys generated on your device. We cannot decrypt your private content.

## 5. Your Right to Vanish

You have the absolute right to delete your account and all associated data at any time. We perform hard deletes — database records, media files, and encryption key backups are permanently removed. We do not retain shadow copies, hidden archives, or behavioral profiles. When you leave, you leave.

## 6. Anti-Extraction Commitment

MPLS LLC will never use your content to train AI models, sell or share your content with data brokers or advertisers, build advertising or behavioral profiles from your activity, or provide "data partnerships" derived from your content.

## 7. Open Source Transparency

Our source code is published under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 (AGPL-3.0). We share our code so that users, security researchers, and the public can verify that we honor every commitment in this document. This license ensures that all modifications — including those running on network servers — remain open and available to the community. Our source code repository is hosted at gitlab.com/patrickbritton3/sojorn.

## 8. Contact

For privacy concerns: privacy@sojorn.net.
For legal inquiries: legal@mp.ls.