Drop

Privacy Policy

Last updated 19 September 2026

The short version

Drop is built to hold as little about you as it can. Messages to people outside your circle are deleted from our servers once they have been read. We do not use analytics, we do not track you, we run no advertising, and we do not sell or share your information with anyone for their own purposes.

Your phone number is never shown to somebody who has not kept you, and it is never attached to an offering.

Who we are

Drop is operated by FastlaneX Intelligence Private Limited. If you have a question about anything here, email [email protected].

What we collect, and why

Your phone number

Your number is your account. We need it to sign you in, and to let people who already have it in their address book find you. It is stored for as long as your account exists.

Your name and picture

Whatever you put on your profile. This is shown to people in your circle and to people who see your offerings.

Your address book

If you allow it, the app sends the phone numbers from your contacts to our server so we can tell you which of them already use Drop. We do not store them. They are compared against existing accounts and discarded in the same request. We never write them down, never build a social graph from them, and never contact anybody on your behalf.

You can refuse this permission and keep using Drop. You will just have to add people by number instead.

Your messages and photos

Our server carries your messages and stops holding them once they arrive. Specifically:

  • A message to somebody outside your circle is deleted ten minutes after it is opened, or after one day if it is never opened.
  • A conversation you have Kept is held until you or the other person deletes it.
  • Photos and video are stored with Cloudflare R2 and are deleted on the same clock as the message they belong to.

What is kept on your own phone stays on your phone. There is no backup of it anywhere, which is also why reinstalling the app loses your history.

Notifications

If you turn on notifications we store a device token so we can send them. You can turn them off at any time in your phone settings.

Reports and blocks

If you block somebody we record that, so we can keep enforcing it. If you report somebody we keep the report, what it was about, and anything you wrote in it, because a person needs to read it and it has to outlive whatever was reported. Reports are kept even after the thing they were about is deleted.

The assistant

Our support account, Tara, can answer common questions automatically. When that is switched on, the text of a message you send to Tara is sent to a third-party language model (Anthropic) to produce a reply. This applies only to messages you send to that one account. It never applies to conversations between you and another person, which we cannot read and do not send anywhere.

Who else touches your data

We use a small number of companies to run the service:

  • Twilio, to send your sign-in code by SMS.
  • Expo, to deliver push notifications.
  • Cloudflare, to store photos and video.
  • Render, where our servers and database run.
  • Anthropic, for the assistant described above.

Each of these only receives what it needs to do its job. None of them is permitted to use your information for their own purposes.

What we do not do

  • We do not sell your data.
  • We do not show advertising.
  • We use no analytics or tracking software in the app.
  • We do not read your conversations with other people.
  • We do not use your data to train any model.

Your rights

You can delete your account at any time from Settings, then Account. It asks you twice, and then everything we hold about you is destroyed along with the copy on your phone. We do not keep a shadow copy.

Depending on where you live you may also have the right to ask what we hold about you, to have it corrected, or to object to how we use it. Email us and we will help. We will not charge you for asking, and we will not make the app worse for you because you did.

Children

Drop is not intended for children under 13, and we do not knowingly create accounts for them. If you believe a child has an account, email us and we will remove it.

Changes

If we change how any of this works we will update this page and change the date at the top. If the change is a significant one, we will tell you in the app rather than relying on you to check.

Contact

FastlaneX Intelligence Private Limited
[email protected]

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