Privacy
There is no account here, so there is not much to collect. This page is short because the list is short, not because we're leaving anything out.
What we keep
- Your public wallet address
- An email, only if you add one
- What you write: your profile, deal messages and reviews
- Aggregate page analytics
What we never do
- See your seed phrase or private key
- Let an AI model read your deals
- Sell or rent your data
Your wallet
Signing in means signing a message with your wallet: no password, no email required. You can optionally add an email, used only to tell you when a deal needs your action. Signing in with your wallet gives us your public address, which is already visible to anyone on BaseScan the moment you make a deal. We store it to know which deals are yours and to keep you signed in; we never see your seed phrase or private key, and we cannot spend from your wallet.
Connecting also talks to WalletConnect/RainbowKit, the library that shows the connect modal. Depending on how you connect, that exchange can reach their infrastructure or your wallet app directly. We don't control that hop, only what happens after you land back on OakGavel.
Analytics
We use Google Analytics to see which pages get used, in aggregate, not to build a profile of any one visitor. It sets its own cookies and can read the usual browser signals (roughly what page you came from, your device type). We don't combine it with your wallet address or anything you type into a deal.
Other providers see only what their job needs. Vercel Speed Insights measures how fast pages load when the site runs on Vercel. Resend sends the deal emails, and only if you added an email: it receives your address and the text of each message. Upstash keeps short-lived counters (about ten minutes) that limit how often one visitor can call the site, keyed by your IP address or your wallet address.
What we don't do
- No AI reads your data. Nothing you send through a deal (messages, delivery links, reviews) is processed by any AI model. It sits in our database. Messages and delivery links are shown only to the two people in that deal; reviews are public, as described below.
- No file uploads. There is nowhere on OakGavel to upload a file, so there is no storage bucket holding one, public or otherwise. Delivery is a link you paste, hosted wherever you already keep it.
- No selling your data. We don't sell or rent what we collect to anyone.
Deal messages and reviews
The chat inside a deal is only visible to the buyer and the seller on that deal, plus us if we need to step in on a dispute. Reviews are attached to the wallet that left them and are public by design, the same way a review on any marketplace is.
A review links to its deal's page, which anyone can open: it shows the domain, the amount, the transfer notes, both parties, where the money is held and, if there was a dispute, how it was resolved. Never the delivery or the chat.