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.
What’s New — Policy Update October 11, 2025
Highlights:
- New UI: simpler and better layout (yay!)
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.
Ownership
The Poke service and this default instance (poketube.fun) are owned and operated by the Poke Project. Learn more at initiative.poketube.fun.
Initiative Site Privacy
The informational website at initiative.poketube.fun does not collect personal information. For hosting-related processing, the Codeberg privacy policy applies: codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/src/branch/main/PrivacyPolicy.md.
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.
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.
Weather Pages & Services
Poke’s weather pages use third-party, privacy-respecting services to resolve places and fetch forecasts:
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Geocoding / place lookup:
nominatim.openstreetmap.org
(OpenStreetMap Nominatim).
Privacy: OSMF Privacy Policy.
How it works:- the request is proxied through Poke’s backend - always! (see source ).
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Forecast data:
open-meteo.com.
Privacy: Open-Meteo Terms & Privacy.
Forecast queries are always proxied through Poke’s backend, so your browser never connects to Open-Meteo directly. Only the necessary query parameters (latitude, longitude, units, etc.) are forwarded by the server. see the source for this here..
Poke does not add trackers to these requests. However, when third-party services are contacted (directly or via proxy), their respective privacy policies apply to those specific requests.
Translate Page (SimplyTranslate)
Our translate page does not send your data directly to Google or SimplyTranslate.org from your browser.
Instead, all requests are proxied through our own backend servers.
When you use the page, only the necessary parameters are passed securely on the server side:
from (source language), to (target language), and text (the content you entered).
Your browser never connects to SimplyTranslate.org directly.
We rely on the community-run SimplyTranslate service (a privacy-friendly translation front-end). SimplyTranslate is a free software project: you can see the source code and its legal notice. Our backend integration is handled in Poke’s server code .
API Logs Policy
When you request any resource from the poke api (for example: thumbnails, API endpoint) information about the request may be logged.
Information about a request is limited to:
- the time the request was made
- the status code of the response
- the method of the request
- the requested URL
- how long it took to complete the request.
No identifying information is logged, such as the visitor’s cookie, user-agent, or IP address. Here are a couple lines to serve as an example:
2019-01-19 16:37:47 +00:00 200 GET /api/v1/comments/xrlETJYzH-c?format=html&hl=en-US 1345.88ms
2019-01-19 16:37:53 +00:00 200 GET /vi/r5P-f5arPXE/maxres.jpg 1085.41ms
2019-01-19 16:37:54 +00:00 200 GET /watch 7.04ms
This website does not store the visitor’s user-agent or IP address and does not use fingerprinting, advertisements, or tracking of any form.
Legal Bases for Processing (GDPR)
- Legitimate interests: Running Poke smoothly while collecting exactly zero personal data.
- Consent: If we ever invent an optional feature that needs info, we’ll ask. But right now? There’s nothing to consent to.
- Legal obligation: Even if someone waves a fancy piece of paper at us, we literally have nothing personal to hand over. Empty pockets.
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
- Server logs: No personal identifiers on our main instance.
- Telemetry/analytics: Not enabled here.
JavaScript & No-JS
JavaScript is optional on Poke’s websites. Core features—including search—work without JavaScript.
Self-Hosting
Poke is free software under the GNU GPL v3.0 or later. you can self-host it yourself! see here
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
Document History
You can view the full edit history for this policy at: codeberg.org.
Warranty Disclaimer
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.
Contact
Questions or concerns? Open an issue on our project tracker :D
- Project: codeberg.org/Ashley/poke
- Initiative: initiative.poketube.fun
Policy License
© 2021–2025 Poke (Poke Project). This policy is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution–ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0).