Privacy at Wind Phone

No microphone · No account · Nothing recorded

Nothing you say is heard, recorded, sent, or stored. There is nothing to leave the device, because nothing is ever taken from it.

Your voice

Wind Phone never asks for your microphone. Speak freely: no sound is captured, measured, or listened to. The wind on screen drifts and hums on its own, the way wind does, whether or not anyone is speaking.

• Nothing is recorded.
• Nothing is heard or transcribed. There is no microphone at all.
• Nothing is transmitted. There is no server, no call connected to another person.

Photos

If you add a photo during a call, it stays on your device only. It is shown locally and never uploaded. It is cleared the moment the call ends.

What we don't collect

• No accounts, no sign-in, no names kept after a call. The name you type is never sent anywhere.
• No cookies of ours, no local storage of personal data, no fingerprinting.
• No session recording, and no tracking of you across other sites by us.

The phone at the front page carries no advertising and sets no cookies at all. The one place cookies appear is the written pages, and that is covered below.

Anonymous counts

To know whether Wind Phone is reaching people, we count page visits and two bare moments – a call began, a call ended – using PostHog. These counts carry no name, no words, no duration, no IP address, no cookie, and no device identifier. Nothing connects one visit to another, and nothing connects a count to you.

Ads on the written pages

The writing on grief is paid for by Google AdSense. Those ads appear only on the written pages, never on the phone itself and never on the error page. Google and its partners use cookies to serve those ads, and may use what you have browsed elsewhere to choose which ones you see. That is the one place a cookie is set on this site, and it is set by Google, not by us.

Nothing from a call is available to them. Your words, the name you type, and any photo you add never leave your device, so there is nothing about the phone for an advertiser to receive.

Google explains what those cookies do, and how to switch personalised advertising off, in its advertising policy; what it does with data from sites that carry its ads is set out in its partner sites policy. Other advertising vendors can be turned off at aboutads.info. In the EU and UK you are asked for consent before any of it runs, and you can decline.

Network

Wind Phone runs entirely in your browser and works offline. The files it loads are its own – fonts, sounds, and code served with the app. The only thing ever sent out is the anonymous count above; your words and your photos have nowhere to go.

The exceptions are on other pages. Wind Phones around the world draws a map, and the map tiles come from OpenStreetMap. Opening that page requests those tiles, which means OpenStreetMap's servers see your IP address and which part of the map you are looking at, the same as visiting any map site. Nothing is sent about you, no account, no cookie, and nothing you typed into the search box: the search runs entirely in your browser. The written pages request ads from Google, as described above. The phone itself never loads a map and never loads an ad: it contacts no one.

Permissions

The app asks for nothing: no microphone, no camera, no location, no notifications. Adding a photo opens your own picker, and that photo never leaves the device.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Email contact@windphone.org.

Last updated · August 2026

Background images · ESA/Hubble nebulae archive, NASA / ESA (CC BY 4.0)