BSVKey Gatherings: privacy notice

Effective 19 October 2026. Covers Gatherings (/gather), Paid DMs (/dm), live audio and the /mcp endpoint.

The short version

No accounts, no cookies of our own, no ads, no analytics. Your private key stays in your browser. What you write to the blockchain is public and permanent, so treat it that way.

Your key

Your private key is used only inside your browser tab to sign transactions. It is never sent to BSVKey. If you choose to stay signed in, the key is kept in this tab's sessionStorage and your public address in localStorage on your device, and it locks after 15 minutes idle.

What is public on the blockchain

Everything you pay for is a Bitcoin BSV transaction: your address, the amounts, the time, your seats, bids, messages, profile (nickname and links), images and logos. Anyone can read these, forever, and BSVKey cannot delete them. In private gatherings, what is said is encrypted with a key in the invite link; who paid whom stays public. Paid DMs are encrypted to the recipient; the payment is public.

What reaches BSVKey's servers

• Live audio pass checks. When you join audio, your browser sends a signed request with your address and gathering ID so the server can check your seat and pass on-chain and issue a short-lived token. Pass and room state are kept briefly in Netlify Blobs and expire.
• Feedback. If you answer "How did it go?", we store your rating, your text and your role. Your .key name is stored only if you tick the box to include it.
• Fee rates. The page asks /gather-fees for the current price schedule. This sends nothing about you.
• Hosting logs. Our host, Netlify, processes your IP address and request details to serve the site and may keep short-lived logs.

Third parties

• WhatsOnChain (blockchain API): your browser asks it for addresses and transactions to read gatherings and broadcast your payments. It sees your IP address and what you look up.
• LiveKit (live audio): if you join audio, your voice, your IP address and the connection go through LiveKit's servers. BSVKey does not record calls.
• Links you click: external live links (X, YouTube, Zoom, Meet, Jitsi), booking links, calendar buttons, share buttons and "Ask Claude / ChatGPT" open those services, under their own privacy policies. Nothing is sent to them until you click.

Stored on your device

Settings you choose to save (audio devices, quiet mode, default gathering settings, private gathering keys) live in your browser's localStorage under bkg: keys. Clear them any time with "Clear" in My saved settings or by clearing site data. Export never includes keys.

Your choices and rights

You can use Gatherings without giving a name or email. To ask about, or to delete, feedback you sent, email us. On-chain records cannot be changed or erased by anyone. Depending on where you live you may have rights to access or delete personal data we hold; we will honor them for the data we actually hold.

Children

The service is not for anyone under 18.

Changes and contact

We may update this notice by posting a new version here. Questions: embryospace@gmail.com. See also the terms, fees and disclaimers.