// the philosophyOwnership isn't a checkbox.
Most privacy policies are a list of promises you have to trust. StarkVault is closer to a set of constraints built into the software itself, the kind that don't bend later. If you want to own your data, the app has to be built so that nobody else can have it. So that's how we build them.
Provisions
Provisions proves it with your shopping list. Everything encrypted on-device, nothing sold without your explicit permission.
See Provisions
Money Man
Money Man proves it with your money. Read-only access, no exceptions, not even an opt-in to sell your data.
See Money ManSVS
working titleSVS proves it with your communities. Private groups, end-to-end encrypted, and a feed with no algorithm deciding what you see.
See SVSThree apps in development so far. The rule doesn't change as more get added.
See all apps →Built for more than our own apps.
StarkVault is an architecture, not a feature of one app. The core is built so other apps can run on it and join the ecosystem: a social network, a health tracker, anything that handles data a person should own.
An app on StarkVault can read only what a user has granted it. The company behind the app never owns the data and can never read it. People share or revoke at any time, and revoking actually cuts access. SVS, our own community platform, is the first proof that even something as social as a network can work this way.
Building something that should work like this, or want to dig into how it works? The core is public at github.com/stark-global, and a human answers services@starkglobal.com. Serious interest in building on it, or in helping build it, is welcome.
Where the money comes from.
A privacy promise only holds if the business model doesn't need to break it. Ours doesn't. Here it is, in full.
Every StarkVault app is free to use. Pro tiers unlock more for people who want more. There are no ads anywhere, because ads need to know you, and our apps are built so nothing can.
Sharing data is a choice you make grant by grant, never a condition of using an app. Every grant is visible on one screen and revocable in one tap. What sharing looks like in each app gets published plainly before that app ships. Nothing is pre-checked, ever.
Some categories are excluded from any sharing model, permanently, in every app. Financial records sit in the same class as health records: no marketplace, no opt-in, no exceptions.
Details like Pro pricing are still being settled, and we would rather say "not settled yet" than promise something we might have to walk back. The three rules above are the part that never moves.