Subprocessors & Transfers

Everyone who processes data on our behalf, and where.

Version 5 · in force since 24 September 2026 · what changed. Drafted in good faith; not legal advice.

This document is incomplete.
The operator has not yet published: legal entity name, registered address, governing law / jurisdiction, legal contact address, privacy contact address. Each missing item is marked in the text below. Until they are published this service should not be taking money from the public.

Everyone who processes personal data on our behalf, what they get, and where they are. Ticked entries are active on this deployment; the rest are wired but not switched on.

WhoWhat forWhat they receiveWhere
Amazon Web ServicesHosting, storage, the call relay Everything stored by the ServiceUnited States
StripePayments, payouts, subscriptions Card details (never reaching us), amounts, buyer/seller identifiers United States, and Stripe's own sub-processors
Browser push services (Apple, Google, Mozilla) Waking your phone for a call or message An opaque subscription endpoint and encrypted payloadVaries by vendor
LiveKitCarrying large meetings (only meetings a Business host chose to make large) and livesThe audio and video of the meeting or live as it happens (not stored), and each person's username, display name and network address LiveKit's servers nearest the people in the meeting, which may be outside the United States
Google TranslateOptional in-app translation, only when you tap translate The text you chose to translateUnited States
Anthropic / AWS BedrockOptional listing assistant that drafts a listing from your photoThe photo and text you submit to itUnited States

The translation caveat, said plainly

Tapping translate sends that message's text to a third party, in the clear, so a company that had no part in your conversation receives it. The app asks first and sends only what you selected. This is worth a moment's thought even though messages here are not end-to-end encrypted to begin with: it widens who holds a copy from us to them.

The AI caveat

The listing assistant is used only on the Sell screen and only on what you give it. Your conversations are never sent to an AI provider. Nothing you submit is used to train a model.

International transfers

Where personal data of people in the EEA or UK reaches the United States, the transfer relies on the Standard Contractual Clauses together with the processor's own certification where it holds one. Outstanding: our own SCC module with each processor, and a transfer impact assessment, are not yet completed and executed. They are required before marketing this service in the EEA, and are listed here rather than implied to exist.

Changes

New sub-processors are added to this page before they start processing.

What has changed

24 September 2026 · version 5

24 September 2026 · version 4

20 September 2026 · version 3

29 August 2026 · version 2

12 July 2026 · version 1

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