No Compose account, no advertising, no tracking, and we don't sell your data.
This policy covers the Compose apps for iPhone and Android, this website, and the services we run for the apps. "We" means Perchless LLC, a Delaware company, which makes and operates Compose Social.
This website sets no cookies and uses no analytics. It remembers which platform's screenshots you chose, in your browser only.
Compose keeps these on your device:
Compose receives only the photos and videos you select. It uses the camera only to take photos for posts and to scan the code that links a device, and adds to your photo library only when you ask. On Android, the device's camera app takes the photo and Google Play services reads the code, so Compose itself has no camera access. It doesn't request access to your contacts or location.
Posts go from your device directly to Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads or X, whose own privacy policies then apply. The one exception is photos and video for Threads, described below. Link previews are fetched by your device, and so are the pictures in your history, from each network. If you create a Mastodon account in the app, what you enter goes to that server. The Thank-you screen loads contributor pictures from GitHub.
These pass through a service we run, only where a network requires it. It keeps none of them beyond what's described here.
Sync is off until you turn on backup or link a second device. These are then encrypted on your device before upload, with a key only your devices can read, so we can't read them:
Drafts and media aren't synced.
Compose sends counts to TelemetryDeck. They're on by default, and cover:
Each count carries a random install ID, hashed before it's sent, and the details TelemetryDeck's library attaches in every app that uses it: device model, system version, language, region and time zone, screen size, appearance and accessibility settings, and how often the app has been used. Counts never include your post text, handles, account names or links.
Turn them off in the app, under Settings → Share usage statistics. On iPhone the same switch is also in Settings → Compose. That also deletes the install ID.
Compose Pro is bought through the App Store or Google Play. Apple or Google handles the payment under its own privacy policy, and the app checks what you own against the store's record on your device. We receive no payment details. The stores report sales to us in their own consoles, with nothing that connects a purchase to your posts, your accounts or your sync.
On Android, Google's billing library runs inside the app to do this. What it reports to Google is covered by Google's privacy policy.
Compose contains no advertising, doesn't use the advertising identifier, and doesn't track you across other companies' apps or websites. We don't sell or share your data.
The services we run and this website are hosted with Cloudflare, which sees the usual connection details, such as your IP address, under its own privacy policy. Synced data is stored on servers we operate in the United States. Everything travels encrypted.
If a breach ever affects you, we'll tell you as the law requires.
Published posts stay on each network until you delete them there.
There's no Compose account, and nothing we hold identifies you: a sync vault is addressed by a key only your devices have, and usage statistics carry only a random install ID. So the way to see or delete your data is in the app, as above, and on the device itself. If you need something else, email us and we'll do what we can. If you live in the EU or UK, you can also complain to your data protection authority.
Where the law asks us to name a legal basis: the services we run exist to provide the app you asked for, and usage statistics are our legitimate interest in knowing what works, which you can turn off.
Compose isn't directed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect information from them.
Changes will be posted here with a new date. Questions: [email protected].