Privacy, honestly

No lawyers were harmed (or hired) writing this. Here's the whole truth about what Slonke does with your data: almost nothing.

What I collect

To understand how Slonke is used and what to fix next, the website and the extension send anonymous usage events to my own analytics server (not Google Analytics, not any ad network):

• On the website: page views, referrer, rough device type, clicks and scroll depth, and a random anon_id kept in your browser's local storage (not a cookie - Slonke sets none) + a session id, so I can tell a returning visit from a brand-new one.
• In the extension: a random install_id (made at install, not linked to you), plus installs/uninstalls, a daily "still active" ping, and when a party is started or joined - including which streaming site (e.g. netflix.com), never what title you watch. Also which features get used - voice/video call, smart mic, chat, reactions, playback and speed controls, a session's length and how many joined, and feedback/donate clicks. These are plain counts and on/off flags only: never your message text, the URL, or the video title.
• Coarse location (country, derived from your IP the way every website sees it). Your IP is used only in the moment - for that country lookup and abuse/rate-limit protection - and is never stored with your events.
• Your display name. The name you pick lives in your own browser and is reused across parties. It's shared with the party you're in (so your partner sees who you are in the participant list, chat and reactions) but is never stored on my analytics server, and it's never tied to a public profile.
• Anonymous identifiers for social features. The watch streak 🔥 - the little count of how many days in a row you've watched with someone - is worked out from the random anonymous ids of the two installs only. The streak record stores just those two anonymous ids and a date: no names, no emails, nothing personal. You can turn streaks off entirely from the extension's popup, and then no id is shared for them.

This is product analytics, not surveillance: there's still no account, no email, no profile, and no advertising or cross-site tracking. Nothing about you is ever shown publicly - there is no public activity feed or "who's watching" board.

What I still never collect

• No chat history, ever. Messages pass peer-to-peer through the party and are never written to disk.
• No video, audio or screen. Slonke never sees, hosts, copies or re-streams what you're watching - it only presses play in sync.
• No precise location. Only the coarse country above, derived in the moment from your IP - never exact coordinates, addresses, or a stored IP tied to you.
• No browsing history. Slonke only knows which supported streaming site a party runs on (e.g. netflix.com) - never the title, the URL, or anything you do on other sites.
• No personal or sensitive data, and no PII beyond the display name you choose - no real name, no account, no email, no contacts.
• No feedback IP. When you send feedback the message, your star rating, and any contact you choose to add are saved for me to read, kept in a private spreadsheet and emailed to me - but your IP is never stored with it.

How it's stored & your choices

Events live in a private database on my own server - not shared with or sold to anyone. Old events are periodically purged. You can ask me to export or permanently delete everything tied to your visitor or install id: clear the anon_id from your browser's local storage (or use "Clear site data"), reinstall the extension to reset its id, or message me from the feedback form and I'll wipe it.

What actually happens

When you start a party, my server hands out a short room code and relays the connection handshake so the two browsers can find each other. After that, your voice, video and chat flow peer-to-peer over WebRTC, encrypted, directly between you and your person. The room exists only in the server's memory for the life of the party and is gone the moment you both leave.

Bring your own everything

Slonke is a synchroniser, not a streaming service. Everyone in the party needs their own legitimate account on whatever you're watching. Slonke doesn't bypass paywalls, logins or DRM - it just presses play at the same time on each person's own session. Nothing sketchy, nothing pirated.

Third parties

I use Google's public STUN servers to help browsers connect (standard for WebRTC). Donations go through Razorpay, which has its own privacy terms; I don't receive your card details. Feedback you submit is saved to a Google spreadsheet and emailed to me, so that text passes through Google and my email provider. Otherwise analytics are first-party only - no third-party analytics or ad SDKs.

Questions?

Drop a note from the feedback form - it reaches a real human. If this policy ever changes, the new version simply lives here.