Privacy Policy
Last updated 2 November 2026
DumbSocial brings your Instagram, WhatsApp and Discord messages into one inbox, and shows Instagram and YouTube without Reels, Shorts and recommendations. This policy explains what we keep to do that, why, and how to have it erased.
What we collect
- Your DumbSocial account. When you sign in with Apple we receive a random identifier from Apple. We don't ask for or store your name, email address or phone number. Your DumbSocial user ID is random too.
- Messages from the networks you connect. When you connect Instagram, WhatsApp or Discord, our server keeps a signed-in session for that account and stores your conversations, including photos, videos and the names and pictures of the people you talk to, so they can be shown and sent from the app. Nothing is collected from a network you don't connect.
- A push notification token for your iPhone, so we can tell you when a message arrives.
Your filter choices, your Instagram and YouTube sign-ins on the Following and YouTube tabs, and what you watch there stay on your iPhone and are never sent to us.
What we don't do
- We don't sell or share your data with advertisers or data brokers.
- We don't show ads, and there are no analytics or tracking tools in the app.
- We don't read your messages, except where needed to keep the service running or when the law requires it.
Who else handles it
- Instagram (Meta), WhatsApp (Meta) and Discord receive what you send through them, as they would from their own apps.
- Apple delivers notifications. A notification carries only an ID; your phone fetches the message from our server.
- Vultr hosts our server in Sydney, Australia.
How long we keep it
Messages and sessions are kept while the network is connected. Disconnecting a network in the app signs our server out of it. Deleting your account (Inbox → Settings → Delete account) disconnects every network and permanently erases your DumbSocial account and messages from our server.
Security
Everything between the app and our server is encrypted with HTTPS, and the server isn't connected to any other chat server. No system is perfectly secure, so please tell us at once if you think something is wrong.
Children
DumbSocial isn't meant for anyone under 13, or the minimum age to use Instagram, WhatsApp or Discord where you live.
Your rights
You can ask what we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to erase it, by writing to us. New Zealand's Privacy Act 2020 applies, and you can complain to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner.
Changes
If this policy changes in a way that matters, we'll say so in the app before it takes effect.