Information & Policies

The agreement for accounts, rooms, profiles, and community features on the hosted kookey service.

How the public kookey website handles information today, including the waitlist, and how the planned social service will handle it when it launches.

What the current kookey website stores in the browser, including the waitlist, and what it does not store.

Proposed rules for the shared rooms, comments, profiles, and messages planned for kookey.

Who provides kookey, how to contact the operator, and where required business details are published.

Contact the kookey project about legal, privacy, and safety concerns.

How kookey’s planned user-content service will handle EU notices, moderation decisions, user rights, and safety.

Information about Serbia’s data protection law. Whether it applies to kookey depends on the operator and service, which have not been confirmed yet. We’ll share the legal review before the hosted service opens.

Copyright rules for the planned hosted service. We’ll share notice and counter-notice instructions before uploads open.

Proposed limits on misuse of the planned hosted kookey service; no user accounts or service controls are available here.

What people should be able to expect when they leave a hosted kookey instance.

A responsible channel for reporting security problems affecting a kookey installation.

A template for explaining how a kookey operator handles content and account reports.

The public website has not had a documented accessibility review yet. We’ll share the findings and a monitored feedback route after the review.

How responsibilities differ when someone deploys their own kookey instance.

Guidance for rooms containing songs, video, voice chat, and other people’s work.

The proposed 13+ age threshold and safeguards under consideration for the planned hosted service.

Retention periods for the hosted service are not set yet. We’ll share them before accounts open.

Information about government requests for user information or content.

The kookey software license and reuse terms are to be published after the canonical source and release are confirmed.

Consumer information for a social service that may add paid plans or host features.

Audiovisual-platform rules that may apply to kookey’s shared video and listening service.

A home for the ideas behind kookey, a social platform project in development.

An honest note about the organization behind this project.

Make shared watching and listening easier to enjoy on your terms.

The principles that shape the product and the community it hopes to serve.

Why a shared-experience space feels worth building.

A tour of the experience described in the project brief.

Make a room feel like yours, from the first frame to the caption.

A shared space for the moments that become part of the group’s story.

Why inspectable software and independent hosting matter to kookey.

Control over the moments you share should be understandable and practical.

A simple idea: the place that stores your room should be a choice you can understand.

A place to catch up on the participants and moments you follow.

Different formats for moments that deserve a quick share or a lasting place.

Short profile updates, with music as a possible extra.

Find a new favorite room without losing the human behind it.

Make privacy a default consideration in every part of the experience.

A product principle from the project brief, stated with an operational caveat.

Healthy communities need clear rules and a fair way to raise concerns.

More people should be able to join, watch, listen, and understand shared moments.

A place for priorities to be shaped by hosts and communities.

Quick answers about the project, the waitlist, and the realities of a hosted service.

A starting point for accurate descriptions of kookey while the product and brand materials are in development.

A reminder that every memorable room has people behind it.

Paste a link. Watch together. That is the whole point. No subscription prompts, no injected ads, no algorithm deciding what you watch next.

Open the app and see what people are actually doing right now. If nobody is live, there is nothing to scroll. That is a feature, not a bug.

A short note on your profile about what you are listening to or thinking about. No engagement metrics. No optimization tips. Just the note.

Kookey coordinates playback with the source player so you do not have to upload a two-gigabyte file or explain to your laptop why it suddenly sounds like a jet engine.

Kookey does not follow you across the internet, build a profile to sell to advertisers, or tune an algorithm to keep you angry. That is the direction. Here is what that means in practice.

Modern social media is a shopping mall where every surface is optimized to sell you something. Kookey is software to watch and listen with friends. We are building it to stay that way.