Privacy

Last updated: July 2026.

IRL Corner is a directory of real people, their homes, and their faces. A verified Corner links a real name to a home location to a face to — over time — travel plans and possessions. We think about that the way you would: a breach of this would be a burglary-planning tool. So privacy here isn’t a compliance checkbox bolted on at the end. It’s the architecture.

Data minimization, by design

We store the minimum needed to make a Corner work, and we derive rather than retain wherever we can. We don’t keep precise geocoded home coordinates when a coarse corner assignment is enough. If we don’t need it, we don’t collect it; if we can compute it on the fly, we don’t store it.

Every field is opt-in — per person

Your profile is yours. Name, photo, the house identifier you choose (“the blue house on Elm” — never a forced street number), how long you’ve lived here, interests, contact preferences — each is opt-in, individually, for each person. The household is the unit, but every individual controls their own visibility. Nothing is published because you proved you live somewhere; proving residence and displaying an address are completely decoupled.

We verify, then throw the evidence away

Membership is confirmed by neighbors vouching for each other, not by identity-API lookups. We record that a member is verified, which Corner they belong to, the vouch edges (who vouched, when), and a timestamp. We never store ID images, utility bills, documents, or third-party lookup responses. We verify, and then we discard the evidence.

Sensitive content stays inside your Corner

Some content is inherently high-risk — most of all “we’re away this weekend, keep an eye out.” That kind of post is the most protected object in the system: visible only to your Corner, auto-expiring, never included in a notification preview, and never stored beyond its window.

Rings differ on purpose

The Corner ring is fully identified — that’s what makes borrowing, lookout, and block parties possible. Where a Town ring exists for civic organizing, speech there is pseudonymous by design: opposing a zoning decision should never require publishing your home address to the people you’re opposing.

Children

Children never have profiles in IRL Corner. A parent may mention their own kids in their own profile text, at their discretion — and nothing more.

What we never do

• We never sell your data. Not to advertisers, not to data brokers, not to anyone.
• We never share it for ad targeting. There is no advertising system for it to flow into — structurally. Local sponsorships (a banner, never an ad) have no targeting surface and receive no neighbor data.
• We don’t run a feed or an attention machine whose incentive would be to harvest and profile you.

These aren’t promises we could quietly reverse under revenue pressure — they’re written into our founding documents and into how the system is built.

Your controls

Every field is opt-in and editable. You can hide or Remove a connection — the safety verb here is “Remove,” never “Block.” A member who behaves badly can be flagged and removed by a Corner quorum. You can request deletion of your profile and data at any time.

Questions

Email privacy@irlcorner.com. IRL Corner is a Win IRL app — a brand of Jamnaytac LLC.