PRIVACY
Privacy, in plain English
No legalese padding. Here is exactly what this website collects, what the junto app does, and what it never does.
This website
This site (junto.watch) uses Vercel Analytics, which counts page views in aggregate. It sets no cookies, shows no consent banner because there is nothing to consent to, and does not build a profile of you or track you across other sites. We see rough numbers like “the install page got N views this week”, and nothing that identifies you.
The junto app
The junto command-line tool phones nothing home. There is no telemetry, no analytics, and no account system. It talks only to the free public nostr relays needed to coordinate your room and directly to the peers in that room.
- No accounts. There is nothing to sign up for and no identity to store. A room is just a code.
- Encrypted coordination. Every play, pause, seek, and the room code itself are NIP-44 encrypted end-to-end before they leave your machine. Relays pass along ciphertext and can read none of it: not the filename, not your activity.
- Files stay peer-to-peer. Your media transfers directly between friends over WebRTC and is SHA-256 verified. No third party, including us, ever holds or sees your file.
- No catalog, no content. junto provides no media. It only syncs files you already have.
Third parties
The website is hosted on Vercel, which processes standard server request logs (such as IP address) to serve and protect the site, as any web host does. The app relies on independent public nostr relays for coordination; those relays only ever see encrypted messages. junto is not affiliated with any relay operator.
Changes
If this policy ever changes, the update will appear here and in the project’s changelog. junto is open source ↗, so you can verify these claims in the code yourself.
No cookies, ever.