Privacy

Video Phone Peer is built so that your calls go straight between your own machines. There is no advertising and no analytics. Buying it collects some personal information, as explained below. This page says plainly what does leave your computer, who sees it, and for how long.

Last updated November 6, 2026. Video Phone Peer is published by Edward Riggers.

Your calls and messages

Video, voice and in-call chat travel directly between the computers on the call, encrypted with keys made fresh for each call. They never pass through our server, and nobody else - including us - can see or hear them.

Chat is one conversation per group. On a call, what you type goes live to everyone on it, the same way as the video and voice. With no call on, it is sent as a message to the people you choose who are online. Each group's chat is kept on your computer until you clear it, and the people you chatted with keep their own copies on theirs.

Messages (chat sent with no call on, or a voice message left on a missed call) are sealed so that only the person they are for can open them. If that person is not online, another member of your group may hold the sealed message and pass it on later - but they cannot read it. Messages are kept on the computers involved, not on any server, and an undelivered one is dropped after two weeks.

Your camera and microphone are used only while you are on a call, or with no call on while your camera is unmuted (that is the preview of yourself). Mute mic and Mute camera switch them off.

What stays on your computer

Your name, the groups you are in, the people in them, your chat, your messages, your settings, the date your free trial started and, once you have unlocked it, your license are stored on your computer, in your Windows user folder. Your private keys are locked with Windows' own protection so only your Windows account can use them. Uninstalling the app does not delete these, so reinstalling keeps your groups; to remove them, delete the %APPDATA%\VideoPhonePeer folder.

What the people in your group see

The members of a group you are in see the name you choose, whether you are online, and - so their computer can reach yours - your computer's network address. Somebody you give an invite code to can ask to join; they see nothing more until a person who runs the group lets them in.

What reaches our server

The app talks to our server at extramediumsoftwareco.com for four things. None of them ever includes what is said on a call or in a message.

• Setting up calls between houses. When two computers cannot reach each other directly, the relay passes the setup of the call between them. While the app is running it tells the relay an identifier for your installation and its public key, which the relay forgets about two minutes after the app stops checking in. A call's setup includes the caller's name, the group's identifier and the network addresses to connect to; the relay holds it for at most a minute, until the other computer collects it, and then deletes it.
• Finding a group by its invite code. If the person who started a group switches on Ask my router to open the way in, their app leaves the group's address with the server locked under the invite code - the server cannot read it, and only somebody who has the code can. It is refreshed while their app runs, is no longer given out once two hours pass without a refresh, and is then deleted.
• Checking for updates. Every few hours the app reads one small file to see whether a newer version is out. Nothing about you is sent. This can be switched off in Settings, App.
• Your product key. Once you enter a key, the app sends what Buying Video Phone Peer describes. The free trial sends nothing for this.

To protect against abuse, the server counts requests from each internet address minute by minute, deleting each count within an hour, and keeps a record of failed invite-code lookups for an hour. Like any website, our web host also keeps standard access logs - which include internet addresses - for its own operation and security.

Buying Video Phone Peer

Video Phone Peer is sold at our shop by Extra Medium Software Co., through PayPal. You pay in PayPal's own window, so we never see your card or your PayPal login. PayPal handles the payment under the PayPal Privacy Statement, and tells us:

• the email address on your PayPal account, which is where we send your product key, and where Find your key sends it again. We send these emails through Google's Gmail, under Google's Privacy Policy;
• the country and state of the address on your PayPal account: Video Phone Peer is sold in the US only, and sales tax depends on the state. We do not keep your street address;
• the amount and PayPal's reference for the payment, for our records and in case of a dispute.

To unlock the app, it sends us your key, a one-way code made from your PC's Windows ID (not the ID itself) and your PC's name. A key is for one PC at a time, so we keep which PC it is on. Each time the unlocked app starts while online, and once a day while it keeps running, it sends us its license (that same code and your purchase's number) to check the key is still on that PC.

We keep this for as long as the purchase stands, plus as long as tax law asks us to keep sales records, and we use it for nothing else: no marketing email, and we never sell or share it. To have it deleted, or to see what we hold, get in touch through the contact page.

Other services

When a call starts, the app asks Cloudflare's public STUN service (stun.cloudflare.com) what your computer's internet address is, so the other end can reach it. Cloudflare sees the address of the computer asking, and nothing else.

The contact form

If you write to us through the contact page, what you type - and your email address, if you give one - is sent to us by email so we can read it and reply. We use it only for that.

Children

Video Phone Peer is meant for households, and only the people a group's owner lets in can call each other. We do not knowingly collect information from children, and the app collects nothing about anybody beyond what this page describes.

Changes and questions

If what the app does with your information changes, this page will change with it, and the date at the top will say when. Questions about privacy are welcome through the contact page.