2026-07-07 · Raiden Team
"Privacy-first" gets printed on a lot of landing pages and rarely gets explained. We'd rather tell you exactly what it means on Raiden, in concrete terms you can check for yourself, than ask you to trust an adjective.
A huge amount of the modern web is instrumented by trackers that follow you from site to site, building a profile of your browsing that has nothing to do with the page you're actually on. Raiden doesn't embed third-party trackers. What happens on Raiden stays a record between you and Raiden, not a data point shipped off to an ad-tech network you've never heard of.
This is a simple sentence to write and an easy one to test over time: Raiden does not sell your personal data to advertisers, data brokers, or anyone else. The ad revenue model here works differently — advertisers pay to reach an audience on the platform, and the charity portion of that revenue goes into a weekly giving pot that your activity directs to the charity you choose. Nobody needs to buy a profile of you for that model to work, so we don't build one to sell.
Location is one of the more sensitive things people share on social apps, often without meaning to. On Raiden, your city and state are never displayed publicly, to other users, no matter what you've filled in on your profile. It's a small default, but it closes off a common way that people get identified or found by people they'd rather not be found by.
If you want a copy of what you've posted, who you've connected with, and the history of your account, you can request a full export in JSON format through Edit Profile. JSON isn't a marketing gesture — it's a plain, structured, machine-readable format, which means what you get back is actually usable: something you could read yourself, hand to another tool, or just keep as an archive. It's your data; you shouldn't need our cooperation to make sense of it.
Account deletion is available directly in Edit Profile, and it does what it says: your profile, posts, and personal data are removed. There is one narrow exception, and we want to be upfront about it rather than bury it in a settings page. Donation records are kept, but anonymized, stripped of anything that identifies you personally. The reason is accountability, not convenience for us: the ledger that tracks how much has moved to which charities needs to stay whole so the totals on our transparency page remain accurate and auditable. An anonymized donation record can't be traced back to you, but it also can't quietly vanish and throw off a public accounting that other people are relying on.
Anyone can write "we care about your privacy" in a footer. What we're trying to do here is give you something checkable instead: specific defaults you can verify by using the product, not a sentiment you have to take on faith. No trackers. No data sales. No public location. An export button that works. A delete button that works, with the one narrow, disclosed exception that keeps the giving side of the platform honest.
That's what privacy-first means here — not a value we advertise, but a set of choices we've made and are willing to be held to.
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