Your data lives on your hub at home. Nothing flows back to us.
The Hub does not collect, transmit, or store any personal data. Your data lives on your device and your local Hub. That is the entire policy.
The Hub is a product of Shribyr Labs, a privacy-first technology company. Our app turns your own hardware into your personal smart-home hub. No cloud required, no middleman, no surveillance. Questions about this policy? Email us at info@shribyr.com.
From the Hub and the app, nothing that identifies you. They send us no name, email address, phone number, location, usage data, or analytics, and no device identifiers beyond the Hub serial number and a random Hub ID in the update status described below. Two small diagnostics can reach a server we run, and both can be switched off in the app: an anonymous crash report when the app breaks, and a one-line update status from your Hub after its nightly software update. Both are described under "The Shribyr app" below. The website and reservations collect a few things, all listed under "Website signups".
There are no analytics libraries, advertising SDKs, or tracking tools embedded in the app. We don't even know how many people have installed it.
The Hub and the app send us nothing personal, so there is nothing from them to process, analyze, share, or sell. The few website and reservation details are used only as described under "Website signups".
All data generated by the Hub (your smart-home devices, automations, media, photos, files, configurations) is stored exclusively on your local device and your Hub. The app communicates directly with your Hub over your local network.
By default, your data stays on your hub. There are no Shribyr servers in between, no automatic cloud sync, no uploads we initiated. Your hardware, your data, full stop.
Optional off-site backup. If you turn on our backup service, an encrypted second copy of the data you select is stored on our Hetzner server in the United States. It's off by default. You choose what gets backed up. The backup is encrypted with a key only your Hub knows, so we cannot read it.
The Shribyr app does not integrate with any third-party analytics, advertising, or data-sharing services.
Any integrations you configure (smart-home devices, local services) run entirely on your own hardware. Shribyr Labs has no access to those integrations or their data.
The Shribyr app for iPhone is the window into your Hub. Everything it sends leaves your phone for your own Hub, on hardware you own. The table below lists every kind of data the app handles, where it goes, and why. It matches the privacy details on the App Store listing.
The app contains no advertising, no third-party analytics, and no tracking. It does not ask for the App Tracking Transparency permission because it does not track.
If you subscribe on shribyr.com or place a $50 Founders deposit, your email is stored on our self-hosted mailing list server. It is used only to send you launch updates and news about your reservation, and you can unsubscribe any time. If you reserve, we also keep your first name to greet you and match your reservation. We never sell either one.
The $50 payment is processed entirely by Stripe, which also receives your email to process it; we never see or store your card number. For extra privacy, you can use a virtual card from Privacy.com.
Like any web server, ours logs IP addresses, timestamps, and pages visited, for security and debugging only. Page views are counted with Cloudflare Web Analytics, which uses no cookies and stores no personal data. Cloudflare also runs a bot check on every page to protect the site from abuse.
The Shribyr app is not directed at children under 13. The app sends Shribyr Labs no personal information from anyone, children included, so this applies at every age. Website signups and reservations are covered in the section above.
Your Hub sends us no personal data, so your family's data stays protected on hardware you own, and its security is in your hands. We recommend keeping your Hub firmware updated and your home network secure.
The website and reservation details listed under "Website signups" live on servers we host ourselves; Stripe handles the payment. If you place an order, we collect your shipping information so we can mail your Hub to you. Everything on our side is self-hosted on our own infrastructure, so your address is never shared with a third party (no Shopify, no fulfillment middlemen, no marketing platforms).
If we ever change our data practices in a meaningful way, we'll update this page and revise the effective date. We will not reduce your privacy rights without prominent notice. Because the Hub and the app collect nothing, substantive changes are unlikely.
Questions or concerns? Email us at info@shribyr.com. We'll respond within 30 days, though there's not much to report.
Effective April 27, 2026 · Last updated September 14, 2026
Some smart TVs and apps try to use their own lookup service instead of your Hub's list. The Hub notices this and routes those lookups through your blocking list anyway, so every device on your network gets the same protection. If a particular app needs its own lookup service, such as certain banking apps or encrypted-DNS tools, you can allow it individually in the Shribyr app under Settings, then Network.