Poke Privacy Policy

We don’t collect any data about you. No telemetry, no trackers ! Because Poke is free software, you can also check the source and self-host.

No data collected No telemetry Requests proxied

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Preamble

Welcome to Poke’s Privacy Policy. We don’t collect data about you and we don’t run telemetry. Poke is free software you can read, remix, and run yourself.

Not legal advice lol

TL;DR

  • No data collected. at all!!
  • No telemetry. We don’t phone home.
  • No third‑party trackers. Yippe!!
  • YouTube can’t see what you watch here. Its all done on the backend.
  • Poke Account: no email required, no personal info needed.
  • Poke Maps: uses OpenStreetMap data; map tiles/attribution may have separate privacy rules depending on the tile server you use.
  • No required cookies. Preferences (like theme or layout) may live in local storage on your device.

What We Do/Don’t Collect

We collect nothing about you

We don’t store IP addresses, user‑agent fingerprints, unique identifiers, emails, names—none of it. There’s no telemetry or “anonymous crash reports.”

What exists briefly so the internet works

Your browser and our server exchange data to deliver pages (that’s how HTTP works). That info is handled transiently and not logged in a way that identifies you on our primary instance.

Poke Account

If you make a Poke account, we don’t require an email or personal details.

Cookies & Local Storage

OpenStreetMap

Poke Maps uses OpenStreetMap data. That means when you explore maps at /map, we embed OSM via an iframe directly into the Poke site. The tiles and geographic info are delivered from OSM contributors’ servers. While Poke itself doesn’t collect any of your data, OpenStreetMap’s tile servers have their own privacy policy.

Third‑Party Requests & Proxy

When Poke needs assets (videos, thumbnails, etc.), we fetch them through our proxy (e.g., p.poketube.fun).

Fonts and other assets are shipped locally where possible. If a third‑party endpoint is necessary, we keep it behind the proxy and strip identifying headers.

Your Privacy Rights

Since Poke doesn’t collect or store personal data, there’s basically nothing for us to give, sell, or lose about you. You don’t have to worry about “export my data” or “delete my profile” requests because we don’t have anything on you in the first place.

Poke Accounts don’t require an email, name, or any other identifying info — and there’s no way to add that kind of data even if you wanted to.

Data Retention

Security

Connections use modern TLS. We minimize what could ever be exposed by not collecting personal data in the first place. Less data, less risk. Math checks out.

Self‑Hosting

Poke is free software under the GNU GPL v3.0 or later.

Changes to this Policy

If we ever change how privacy works here, we’ll update the date at the top and announce major changes. Spoiler: changes would not include adding two bananas. this isnt minions LOL :3

Contact

Questions or concerns? Open an issue on our project tracker :D

Policy License

© 2021–2025 Poke. This policy is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution–ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0).

GPLv3 Warranty Disclaimer (excerpt) 
IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER,
OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MODIFIES AND/OR CONVEYS THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES,
INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM
(E.G., LOSS OF DATA, DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE, OR FAILURES OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER PROGRAMS),
EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.