Privacy

Harbor is designed to minimize the information entrusted to any service operator. This page describes the website and the current desktop beta.

This website

The Harbor website does not include advertising trackers, behavioral analytics, or account registration. Its hosting provider may process standard request information, including IP addresses, user agents, requested URLs, and timestamps, for delivery, security, and operational logging.

The Harbor desktop app

Your Harbor identity, contacts, settings, and conversation history are stored locally on your device. Message content and call media are encrypted between participants. Harbor does not require a phone number or a centrally managed social account.

Network metadata

Harbor uses network infrastructure for peer discovery, signaling, and relay connectivity when a direct connection is unavailable. Operators of that infrastructure may observe metadata such as IP addresses, connection timing, and traffic volume. End-to-end encryption protects conversation content, but it does not conceal all network metadata.

Shared information

Information you intentionally send, publish, or expose through a contact link is shared with the recipients you choose. People receiving that information may store or redistribute it outside Harbor's control.

Open source and questions

The implementation is available in the Harbor source repository. Privacy or security issues can be reported through the repository's issue tracker.