How we handle your data, what we collect, and what we will never do.
Ordinary Friend exists because we believe people deserve to see the value they created on social media — not have it extracted from them again. Every decision we make about data starts from that principle.
When you express interest via our early access form, we collect your name, email address, and which insight dimension you're most curious about. That's it.
If you contact us as a researcher, we collect your name, email, institution, research interest area, and your message.
We do not use tracking pixels, third-party analytics, or advertising cookies on this site.
Your Meta data export (.zip file) is uploaded over an encrypted TLS connection to our servers hosted on Supabase (a SOC 2 Type II compliant infrastructure provider). Your data is stored in an isolated, encrypted database accessible only to your account.
We process your messages, posts, comments, and connections to generate embeddings, sentiment analysis, entity resolution, and relationship trajectory classifications. This processing involves sending text content to OpenAI's API for AI analysis. OpenAI does not use API data for training and deletes it after processing per their data usage policy.
Your raw data and generated insights persist in your account until you request deletion. You can request full data removal at any time.
If you explicitly opt in, anonymized behavioral metrics may be contributed to an academic research datalake. This requires a separate, clear consent step — it never happens by default.
Anonymized records contain:
Research data is made available to vetted academic researchers studying prosocial behavior, digital wellbeing, and platform design. You can withdraw consent and request removal at any time.
You can request full deletion of all data we hold — raw uploads, generated insights, embeddings, and account information — at any time by emailing sarah@darkridge.com. Deletion is complete and permanent.
If you opted into the research datalake, you can withdraw consent and request removal of your anonymized record.
You own your data. We just help you read it.
We use the following services to operate Ordinary Friend:
No other third parties receive your data.
Questions about how we handle data? Email sarah@darkridge.com.