What Forecall keeps, and what it does not

What is stored when you prepare a voicemail

• The name you give the mailbox, which is what callers hear you called.
• Your mailbox code, and the secret studio address that opens it.
• For each voicemail: the name of the person it is for, an optional passphrase, the words you wrote, and the recording if you made or uploaded one.
• How many times each voicemail has been opened, and when it was first opened.
• Any reply left for you, in words or in voice.

That is the whole list. Forecall never asks for your email address, your phone number or your name beyond the one you choose to be called.

Who can reach it

Two links act as keys, and they are the only keys.

• Your studio link opens your mailbox, your voicemails and your replies. Anyone holding it has that access, so treat it like a password. It cannot be reissued or recovered.
• A voicemail link opens that single voicemail, and nothing else. Someone holding one message link cannot see your other messages or your studio.

Pages behind those links carry instructions telling search engines not to index them, and the site's robots file excludes them as well.

No trackers, no cookies, no third parties

Forecall sets no cookies, runs no analytics and loads nothing from anybody else's servers: no fonts, no scripts, no pixels, no advertising. Nothing you write or record is sent to another company, and nothing is sold or shared. There is nobody to sell it to.

Your browser does keep a short list of studio addresses you have opened, so the studio page can offer them back to you. That list lives on your own device and never reaches the server. Clearing your browser data removes it.

Recordings and reading aloud

A recording you make in the browser is only sent when you press save. A voicemail with no recording is read aloud by the listener's own device, using the speech built into their browser. If that device uses a cloud based voice, the words are handled by the device's own speech service under its own terms, which is outside Forecall's reach and worth knowing.

How long it lasts, and how to delete it

Voicemails and replies stay until you remove them. Deleting a voicemail in your studio permanently removes its words, its recording and every reply to it. Deleting the mailbox removes everything at once, including the recordings on disk.

There is no archive, no backup copy kept for your convenience, and no way for anybody to restore what you delete, including us.

The server keeps ordinary web server logs (address, page requested, time) for the short term, which is what keeps the service running and lets us spot abuse. They contain no message content.

Your rights

You can see everything held about your mailbox by opening your studio, and you can erase any of it or all of it yourself, at once, without asking anybody: a single voicemail, or the mailbox and every recording in it.

If you need something else, or you believe a voicemail about you exists and should not, write to 1968tim@gmail.com.