Privacy Policy

Last updated 22 August 2026

The short version. We collect your email, what you list, and what you buy — because the marketplace cannot work without them. We never see your card details. We do not sell your data, and we do not run advertising trackers. You can have your account deleted by emailing us.

What we collect, and why

WhatWhy
Email address Signing in, receipts, sale notifications, and telling you if your demo breaks
Display name and bio Shown publicly on your seller profile. You choose what goes here
Listings you create Published on the marketplace once you set them live
Purchase history Repository access, the refund window, and the seller's payout
Reviews and requests you post Shown publicly, attributed to your display name
Waitlist email Telling you when we open up. Nothing else
Aggregate page analytics Which pages get visited. No cookies, no cross-site tracking, no individual profiles

What we never see

Your card details. Payment happens on Stripe's own pages and their systems, never ours. We receive a confirmation that a payment succeeded and an identifier for it. Nothing more.

If you sell here, Stripe also collects identity and bank details to pay you. That goes directly to Stripe under their privacy policy — we only ever see whether your account is verified and able to receive money.

Who else touches your data

Each of these sees only what it needs to do its job. We do not sell your data to anyone, and we do not share it for advertising.

What is public

Some things are public by design, and it is worth being clear which:

Your email address is never public. Neither is your purchase history, your drafts, or anything about your Stripe account.

Cookies

We use a small amount of browser storage to keep you signed in. That is a functional necessity, not tracking. We do not use advertising cookies and we do not follow you across other sites.

How long we keep things

Your rights

Wherever you live, you can ask us to:

Email support@forkable.dev and we will do it. If you are in the UK or EU, the GDPR gives you these rights explicitly; we extend them to everyone because having two standards is more work than having one.

Children

Forkable is not for people under 18. We do not knowingly collect data from anyone younger. If you believe a child has an account here, tell us and we will remove it.

Security

Access to data is enforced at the database level, not just in the interface — the rules about who can read what are applied by the database itself, so a bug in the website cannot expose data the rules forbid. Repository access is gated on an actual completed purchase. Sensitive columns are unreadable through the public API.

No system is perfect. If you find a security problem, please email support@forkable.dev before disclosing it publicly, and we will fix it quickly and credit you if you would like.

Changes

If we change this policy in a way that matters, registered users get an email before it takes effect.

Contact

support@forkable.dev — a real person reads it.