Porchlight: Spam Call Alerts

Effective October 23, 2026 · Published by Porchlight

Summary: Porchlight does not collect any personal data. There is no account, no analytics, no advertising, no tracking and no third-party SDK. We, the publisher, receive nothing about you or your calls.

What stays on your iPhone

Numbers you look up, your recent lookups, your blocked and safe lists, the number you enter for Neighbor Guard, the state you pick in Scam Radar and your settings. They are stored only on your device and shared only with Porchlight's own extensions on that device (the call-labeling extension, the widget and the Share action).
Calls. iOS does not tell Porchlight who calls you. Porchlight gives iOS a list of reported numbers and labels; iOS matches incoming calls against it on your iPhone.
Text you share to “Check with Porchlight” is scanned on your device for phone numbers and is not stored or sent anywhere.

What Porchlight downloads

About once a day Porchlight downloads the latest list of reported numbers from porchlight-data.pages.dev, a static file host run on Cloudflare. The request contains no information about you, your calls or your lookups — it is the same file for everyone. Like any web server, Cloudflare may process your IP address to deliver the file, under Cloudflare's privacy policy. We do not receive or keep these logs.

Links you choose to open

“Report to the FTC/FCC”, Support and this policy open in Safari. What you submit on those government websites is governed by their policies. Porchlight copies the number to your clipboard only when you tap Report.

Data sources

The list of reported numbers is built from the Federal Trade Commission's public Do Not Call complaint data (phone numbers that consumers reported; the FTC removes consumers' personal details before publishing). Area and original carrier come from public North American Numbering Plan records.

Retention and deletion

Your data stays on your device until you delete it: clear Recent lookups, remove numbers in My Lists, or delete the app to remove everything. Because we hold no data, there is nothing for us to delete or export.

Children

Porchlight collects no personal information from anyone, including children.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version is posted on this page with a new effective date.

Contact

Porchlight · nguyenmuoi990@icloud.com