Privacy Policy

Effective 15-AUG-2026

Raven Mesh has no accounts and no servers. Every message, photo, voice note, file and location share goes directly from your phone to the other phones in your mesh over Wi-Fi, encrypted, and nowhere else. Nothing you send in the app is ever transmitted to us, stored on any server we operate, or shared with any third party.

What Raven Mesh is

Raven Mesh is an offline mesh chat app. One device creates a mesh and others join by scanning a QR code or pasting a link. From there, phones talk to each other directly over Wi-Fi Direct or Wi-Fi Aware, with no internet connection, no cell signal and no central server required for the app to work.

Who operates this app

Raven Mesh is a product of Atavistic Concept, published on the app stores under Algoz FZ-LLC (RAKEZ, UAE). Neither publishing entity operates a backend for the app - see below.

Data collected and how it moves

The table below lists every type of data the app touches, exactly as declared in the Google Play Data Safety and Apple App Privacy sections for this app.

Data type	Where it goes	Stored on our servers?
Chat messages	Directly to the peer(s) you send to	No
Photos and videos	Directly to the peer(s) you send to	No
Voice notes	Directly to the peer(s) you send to	No
Files	Directly to the peer(s) you send to	No
Location (optional live-share)	Directly to peers in your mesh, only if you turn this on	No

All of the above is encrypted (AES-256-GCM) and travels device-to-device only. It is stored on your own phone, in an encrypted local database, for as long as you keep the app installed or until you leave the mesh, clear app data, or use the duress wipe in Settings.

What we never collect

No account, email address, phone number or sign-up of any kind
No analytics or usage tracking
No advertising, no ad networks, no advertising identifiers
No crash reporting or diagnostics SDKs
No data sold, rented or shared with data brokers
No tracking across other apps or websites

Permissions the app requests, and why

Permission	Reason
Location	Powers the live map screen and optional location sharing with your mesh. Off by default; you turn it on per-mesh.
Camera / Microphone	Lets you attach a photo, video or voice note to a message. Only active when you use those features.
Nearby Wi-Fi devices	Required by Android to discover and connect to other phones running Raven Mesh nearby.
Internet	Android requires this permission for any socket connection, including the private link formed directly between two phones over Wi-Fi Direct. Raven Mesh does not use it to reach the public internet - it never resolves a domain name or dials a remote server.
Notifications	Shows the persistent “mesh connected” notice and incoming-message alerts while the app runs in the background.

Local security

Messages are stored in an encrypted on-device database (SQLCipher), with the database key held in your phone’s hardware-backed keystore. You may set a PIN or biometric lock in Settings. A separate duress PIN, if configured, wipes the app’s local data (messages, media, mesh membership) behind a disguised error screen.

In-app purchase

Raven Mesh offers one optional one-time purchase to remove the free-tier peer limit. This purchase is processed entirely by Google Play or the Apple App Store under their own privacy policies; we never see or store your payment details.

Children

Raven Mesh is not directed at children and is listed for users aged 18 and over on both app stores.

Changes to this policy

If Raven Mesh’s data practices change, this page will be updated and the effective date above will change accordingly.

Contact

Questions about this policy: algozgroup@gmail.com