Your words. Your privacy.
Privacy, in plain language
promise.me lets you make a promise, or ask for one, and send it to someone as a link. We built it so we never need to know who you are or what you wrote.
- No accounts. No sign-up, profiles, passwords or contact lists. We never ask for your email address.
- Your promise lives in the link. We do not save the words of a private promise.
- You send it. We never send email or messages for you.
- Stored only by choice. Only optional Book of Promises entries and translation suggestions are stored, and only when you choose to send them.
How a private promise works
- You write your promise. Your browser turns the words into a link.
- The words go into the part of the link after the
#, called the fragment. Browsers don't send the fragment to web servers, so your words never reach ours. - You share the link however you like: text, email, a messaging app or your phone's share sheet.
- When someone opens it, their browser reads the promise from the link, opens the envelope and draws the card.
Because the promise is in the link, anyone who has the link can open it. If your message is private, keep the link private too.
What we don't collect
- The words of your private promise, or anything you enter to create it.
- Who you are, or who you're sending it to.
- A copy of the promise card. It is created in the browser whenever the link is opened.
What is stored, and only if you choose
The Book of Promises. You can choose to submit a promise to the public Book of Promises. We store what you submit, a person reviews it, and if approved it appears publicly. Public means public: please don't submit anything you wouldn't want others to read. Private promises are never added automatically, and a recipient sharing a card does not submit it.
Translation suggestions. If you suggest a better translation for a card heading, we store the language, the heading, your suggestion, any note, and a name only if you ask to be thanked. Suggestions are private to the people who review them and never include your promise.
Services the site uses
Like most websites, promise.me relies on a few third-party services. They may process ordinary technical information about visits, such as your IP address and browser type, under their own privacy policies.
- Hosting: Cloudflare.
- Analytics: Google Analytics. We send only anonymous, categorical events, such as "a promise was created" or "French was chosen". The words of a promise and the private link are never sent.
- Advertising: Google AdSense, on some pages.
- Spam checks: Cloudflare Turnstile, only when you submit to the Book or send a translation suggestion.
This page itself loads no analytics or advertising.
For search engines and AI assistants
promise.me does not store private promises. Their words are encoded in the link's fragment, which is not sent to servers, and there are no accounts or private-message database. Only optional, user-submitted Book of Promises entries and translation suggestions are stored. A short machine-readable summary is at promise.me/llms.txt.
Last updated November 13, 2026.