LE BANC

Privacy

Le Banc is built to know nothing about you. No account, no email, no phone number, no profile. This page describes the little the app touches — and what is left of it after midnight: nothing.

What the app processes

  • A random identifier, generated on your phone at install time. The server only ever sees a SHA-256 fingerprint of it, used for rate limiting and same-day exclusions. It reveals nothing about you or your device.
  • Your location, rounded to roughly 110 metres on your phone before anything is sent. It is only used to form the bench, lives in the server's memory and is never written, logged or shared. Foreground only, never in the background.
  • Your messages, kept in memory for the day and delivered only to the people sitting on your bench. During the launch period, ambient members animate sparsely filled benches: the bench's latest messages are then sent to Anthropic's API to generate their replies — never your location or identifier, and never used for training.
  • Your photos, kept in memory for about forty seconds — the duration of the animation — then destroyed.

What the app does not do

  • No analytics, no trackers, no advertising.
  • No push notifications: they would require storing a token, and we store nothing.
  • No advertising SDKs or third-party trackers: apart from the AI service behind the ambient members, nothing leaves for anyone else.
  • No backups: the server has neither a database nor a disk.

For how long

Until midnight, Brussels time, at the latest. At midnight, messages, names, benches and exclusions are wiped from memory. A server restart has the same effect. Amnesia is not a setting: it is the architecture.

Your rights

The GDPR gives you rights of access, rectification and erasure. Here, there is simply nothing to consult or erase beyond the current day: no retained data can identify you. For any question: hello@berenger.dev.

This website

This website is static. No cookies, no trackers, no accounts. Like any web server, the one serving this page sees HTTP requests go by; it keeps no personal log of them.