PRIVACY

Privacy and terms

Durpin is a disposable camera for a small group of friends. It runs on a server one of us keeps at home, not on a company's cloud.

Last updated October 11, 2026

What Durpin keeps

Your account. The email or the Apple or Google account you sign in with, your name, username, bio and photo. Signing in with Apple or Google shares your name, email and profile photo with Durpin, nothing more.
Your shots. Photos and clips you take in Durpin, their notes, and when they were taken. Nothing from your camera roll is read.
Your friends. Who you are friends with, requests, vibes, comments, instants, shared rolls, and people you block or mute.
Your settings. Your time zone, so the daily roll and monthly recaps follow your day. Which notifications you want and your quiet hours. If you turn notifications on, a token that lets the server reach your phone.
Crash reports. If the app crashes, a report of what broke goes to the same home server. It has no name, email, IP address or photo in it.
Reports. If you report something, the report goes to the person who runs the server.

Shots develop on the server and nobody, you included, can open one before that.
Shots you share are seen by your friends only. Private shots are seen by you only. A ready shot you don't decide on within 7 days is kept private.
An instant is seen once by the friend you sent it to, then its file is deleted.
Notifications pass through Expo, Apple and Google on the way to your phone. They carry a friend's name, a count and a link into the app, never a photo, note or comment.
Cloudflare carries the connection between the app and the server.
There are no ads, no trackers, no analytics, and nothing is sold or shared with anyone.

Settings, Download everything makes a zip of every shot you have, any time.
A shot you delete stays in Recently deleted for 30 days, then it and its files are removed.
Settings, Delete account removes every photo, friend and comment within 30 days. Signing in before then cancels it.
The server keeps nightly backups for up to 8 weeks, so something you delete is gone from the backups within 8 weeks too.
Questions or a request to delete: ask the friend who invited you, or the person who runs the server.

Durpin is for people you know. Be decent: no harassment, no nudity of anyone without their consent, nothing illegal.
Anyone can block, mute or report. Accounts that break these rules can be removed.
Durpin is a personal project offered as is, without a guarantee that it will always be available or that nothing will ever be lost. Save the shots you care about.