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Privacy policy

Last updated November 14, 2026

handshake.cafe is run by Tecdrip LLC, based in the United States. This policy explains what happens to your information when you record, share or watch a Recording. Questions go to privacy@tecdrip.com.

The short version

  • Your Recordings stay in your browser. Our server never receives them.
  • There are no accounts, no cookies, no ads and no third-party scripts. We count visits with our own cookie-free analytics, which never runs on the page where a Recording is watched.
  • For each shared Recording, our server keeps only a random identifier and a few dates.

Your Recordings

A Recording is captured and stored in your own browser. When someone opens its Share link, their browser fetches the Recording straight from yours, over an encrypted peer-to-peer connection. If the two browsers can't connect directly, the encrypted stream passes through our relay server, which forwards it without being able to read it. We never store your Recordings, and we can't watch them.

Share links

The secret part of a Share link (everything after the #) never leaves the browser, so our server never receives it. From that secret, your browser derives a random identifier, which it uses to tell our server that the Recording can be watched. For each shared Recording, our server keeps:

  • that identifier;
  • a one-way hash of a secret only your browser holds, which proves the link is yours;
  • when the link was created and when your browser last made it available.

A link ends when you delete the Recording, after 7 days in which your browser hasn't made it available, or when we remove it for breaking our Terms. After that we keep only the identifier, the dates it was created and ended, and why it ended. We keep this permanently, so the link can never be used again and anyone who opens it is told why it stopped working.

Viewers and view stats

When you watch a Recording, the Sender sees when you opened it, how far you watched, and whether you're watching now. You appear to them as a number ("Viewer 2"), never by name. Your browser creates that number's identifier from a random value it keeps. The identifier is different for every Recording, and it's sent only to the Sender's browser, never to our server.

On a computer, your browser may keep a copy of a Recording you watched, so you can watch it again while the Sender is offline. Copies are deleted automatically after 7 days.

What your browser stores

Our server holds almost nothing about you. Instead, your browser keeps the following on your device:

  • your Recordings and their thumbnails;
  • the secrets that prove your links are yours;
  • view stats for your Recordings;
  • copies of Recordings you've watched;
  • settings such as your chosen recording quality.

None of this is a cookie, and none of it is sent to us. To remove it, delete your Recordings in the app or clear this site's data in your browser. If you clear your browser's data, your Recordings are gone for good: we have no copy to restore.

IP addresses and logs

Like any website, our server sees your IP address when your browser connects. We use it only in memory, to limit how many requests one address can make, and we don't write it to disk. Our analytics also uses it briefly, as described above. Our server logs don't record IP addresses, link identifiers or secrets.

Peer-to-peer connections work by exchanging network addresses, so a Sender's and a Viewer's browsers can learn each other's IP addresses while connected.

Notifications

If you allow notifications, your browser shows them itself when a Viewer opens your Recording. We don't use a push service, and no notification passes through our server.

Analytics

To see how many people use handshake.cafe, we run our own analytics service at analytics.tecdrip.com. It doesn't use cookies, doesn't follow you across sites, and isn't shared with anyone else. When you open the home page or one of these legal pages, it records:

  • the page's address;
  • the website that linked you here, if any;
  • your browser, operating system and type of device;
  • your country, worked out from your IP address.

To count unique visitors without storing who they are, it combines your IP address and browser details into a code that can't be reversed, using a random value that changes every day. Your IP address itself isn't stored, and the code can't be linked to you after that day.

The analytics script never runs on the page where a Recording is watched, so it never sees a Share link, and it can't see your Recordings or view stats.

What we don't do

We don't set cookies or track you across sites. Apart from our own analytics above, we don't load scripts, fonts or images from anywhere else. We don't sell or share your information, and we have no account, name or email address of yours to share.

Hosting

Our server and relay are hosted in the European Union.

Children

handshake.cafe isn't for anyone under 16.

Your choices and rights

You can delete any of your Recordings at any time, which also ends its Share link on our server. Because we hold no account and nothing that names you, we usually can't link any stored data to you. If you have a question or a request about your data, write to privacy@tecdrip.com.

Changes

If this policy changes, we'll update it on this page and change the date at the top.