Effective date: July 14, 2026
This page records significant changes to Fenrid's Privacy Policy, Terms of Service, and Community Guidelines.
We record changes that materially affect user rights, data handling, paid products, content rules, enforcement, appeals, or legal responsibilities.
We do not normally record spelling corrections, formatting changes, link fixes, or wording changes that do not alter meaning.
July 14, 2026
Privacy Policy
- Replaced the pre-launch waitlist notice with a policy covering Fenrid Accounts and the full Services.
- Added clear explanations of community messages, end-to-end encrypted direct messages, encrypted attachments, trusted devices, and report-related decryption.
- Clarified that AI does not read user content and that Fenrid does not use content to train, fine-tune, or evaluate AI or machine-learning models.
- Added information about optional on-device noise suppression without server-side content analysis.
- Added information about PhotoDNA hash matching for supported unencrypted image and GIF uploads.
- Added information about voice and realtime data, security events, anti-fraud device intelligence, payments, subscriptions, Fenrid Credits, reports, and evidence.
- Updated the service-provider section to cover Supabase, Vercel, Cloudflare, Microsoft Azure, Stripe, Resend, Fingerprint, Upstash, and Microsoft PhotoDNA.
- Added category-based retention information, including ordinary report evidence generally retained for up to one year.
- Added account-deletion, international-processing, privacy-rights, cookie, local-storage, security, legal-request, and younger-user sections.
Terms of Service
- Published Fenrid's first full Terms of Service.
- Confirmed that users retain ownership of their content.
- Limited Fenrid's content licence to operating, securing, maintaining, and enforcing the Services.
- Contractually excluded AI training, AI evaluation, behavioural advertising, sale, and unrelated commercial use of User Content.
- Added rules for Accounts, encryption passphrases, trusted devices, Servers, moderators, integrations, and early-access features.
- Added subscription cancellation rules. Cancellation prevents renewal and access normally continues through the paid billing period.
- Added future Fenrid Credits rules. Credits are account-bound, non-transferable, non-refundable except where law requires otherwise, and cannot be redeemed for cash.
- Added EU and EEA withdrawal-right language for recurring digital services and immediately delivered Credits.
- Added enforcement, appeals, copyright, service availability, liability, governing-law, and dispute provisions.
- Confirmed that the Terms do not require private arbitration or waive mandatory consumer rights.
Community Guidelines
- Published Fenrid's first platform-wide Community Guidelines.
- Added rules covering harassment, hateful conduct, violence, extremism, child safety, adult sexual content, self-harm, illegal activity, cybersecurity abuse, privacy, scams, spam, manipulation, deceptive media, intellectual property, and reporting abuse.
- Added specific responsibilities for Server Owners and moderators.
- Added reporting, enforcement, and appeal processes.
- Clarified that stricter local Server rules are allowed, but local rules cannot permit conduct prohibited across Fenrid.