Privacy
Effective 5 September 2026
The short version: we do not store the text of your messages, we do not sell anything about you, and we collect the minimum needed to run an account and bill it.
About the operator. Pushferry is currently operated as an independent service reachable at hello@pushferry.com, with its servers in Frankfurt, Germany. The registered company details and the governing law for paid subscriptions are being finalised and will be published on this page, with the effective date, before paid plans open. Until then this document describes how the service actually handles your data and what we undertake to do — which is the part that binds our behaviour today.
What we do not keep
- The body of your messages. Not for outgoing sends, not for forwarded ones. It passes through memory on its way to your phone and is not written to our database.
- The other party's phone number. Recipients of your sends and senders of your incoming messages are not stored against the message record.
- Your contacts. The app does not upload your address book.
- Notification contents. When notification forwarding is on, the phone reads only the apps you ticked and dispatches them; we do not receive or keep what they said.
What we do keep
| Data | Why | How long |
|---|---|---|
| E-mail address and password hash | To have an account and let you sign in | Until you delete the account |
| Your language and quiet-hours settings | To show the cabinet correctly and honour your window | Until you delete the account |
| Device records: name, SIM slot, operator, online state | To route a message to the right phone | Until you unlink the device |
| Message metadata: time, direction, status, error code, which device | So you can see whether a message went out, and so we can bill and support you | By plan; the cabinet shows your retention |
| Forwarding rules and destinations you configured | To forward where you asked | Until you remove them |
| Billing records and invoices | To take payment and meet accounting obligations | As long as accounting law requires |
| Server logs and diagnostics you send us | To find faults | Diagnostic uploads are deleted after 14 days |
| Signup source, if you arrived from a link with campaign tags | To know which channels work | Until you delete the account |
Who else sees anything
We do not sell or rent personal data, and we do not share it for anyone else's advertising. Data reaches third parties only where the service cannot work otherwise:
- The destinations you choose. If you forward to Telegram, Slack, Discord, ntfy or your own webhook, your message goes to them, under their terms, because that is what you asked for.
- Our hosting and mail infrastructure in Frankfurt.
- A payment provider, once paid plans open, which will see what it needs to take payment. We do not store card numbers.
- An authority, where a lawful request obliges us.
Your rights
If you are in the EU or UK you have the rights the GDPR gives you: to see what we hold about you, to correct it, to have it deleted, to get a copy in a portable form, to object to processing, and to complain to your national supervisory authority. Write to hello@pushferry.com and we will answer within one month.
Deleting your account removes your account data. Records we must keep for accounting or that are needed to defend a legal claim are the exception, and they are kept only for as long as that requires.
Cookies
The cabinet sets a session cookie so you stay signed in, and remembers your language. That is what the cookies are for; we do not run advertising trackers on this site.
Children
The service is not intended for people under 16, and we do not knowingly create accounts for them.
Changes
If we change how we handle your data we will update this page and change the effective date at the top. Where a change is material we will also tell account holders by e-mail.