Privacy

Meshbell collects no personal data. There are no accounts, no analytics, no advertising, and no tracking. What is yours stays on your device.

What stays on your device

• Your signing key and enrolled neighbors' keys — stored in the device keychain and local storage, never uploaded, never published. A directory of who lives on a street is a safety risk we refuse to create.
• Your watched places — stored on the device only.
• Received bulletins — held in a local log on your device.

Permissions, and the narrow reason for each

• Bluetooth — used only to reach a paired LoRa mesh radio to send and receive bulletins. Not used for anything else.
• Location — used only to center a “watched place” when you tap to add one. It is not tracked and is never sent off the device.
• Camera — used only to scan a neighbor's key QR during in-person enrollment. Nothing is photographed, stored, or sent.
• Local network — used only to reach a Meshbell Wi-Fi bridge on your own network. That traffic stays on your local network.
• Notifications — used only to alert you to hazards near a place you watch.

What travels over the mesh

Emergency bulletins you or others create are broadcast over the local radio/Wi-Fi mesh so neighbors can see them — that is the point of the app. They carry no account, and no personal identifiers beyond a public signing key you control. Verification happens on each recipient's own device.

Third parties

Meshbell may display public government hazard alerts (for example, U.S. National Weather Service data). We do not share your information with these or any other third parties, because we do not have your information.

Children

Meshbell is a general-audience safety app and does not knowingly collect information from anyone.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, the updated version will appear here. Questions: meshbell.com.