Privacy

Privacy policy

Nethalo at nethalo.com is operated by GrayOrbit, LLC. Questions: admin@grayorbit.com.

What we store when you send a halo

The recipient’s first name, your name, your message, and the card style you picked. We also store when the halo was created, when it was first opened, how many times its share image was tapped, whether it was reported, and whether it was sent onward from another halo.

We store the sending device’s IP address with each halo. We use it to limit how many halos can be sent in an hour, and we keep it as part of the halo’s record, including after the halo is removed. We also store a scrambled (hashed) edit key so only the device that made a halo can edit or remove it.

Who can see a halo

Halos are never published or listed anywhere on the site. Anyone who has a halo’s link can open it and read the message, so share the link only with the person it’s for.

When a link is pasted into a text or chat, the preview shows only the sender’s name and “sent you a halo”, never the message. Halo pages are marked so search engines don’t index them.

No account needed

You don’t need an account to send or open a halo, and we don’t ask for your email address or phone number.

Sending

When you tap Text or Email, your own messaging or email app opens with the link filled in. Nethalo doesn’t send texts or emails for you and doesn’t see who you send the link to. Copy link only copies the link to your device.

The image you can share to a story is drawn on your device and isn’t uploaded to us. We only count that the share button was tapped.

Reporting

“Report this halo” flags the halo and sends our team an email alert with a short reference number, the time, and the reason, if you give one. The alert doesn’t include the halo’s link, names, or message. We review reported halos on our admin page and may remove them. Reporting doesn’t notify the sender.

Analytics and cookies

The home page counts visits with privacy-friendly analytics (Umami, self-hosted at analytics.grayorbit.com). It uses no cookies, records only a visit to the home page without referrer details, and skips browsers that send Do Not Track. Halo pages are never counted, and halo links, messages, and edit keys are never sent to analytics.

Visitors get no cookies from Nethalo. The only cookie is a sign-in cookie for the site’s admin page.

Pages load fonts from Google Fonts, so your browser connects to Google’s servers to download them.

Feedback

If you use the Feedback form at the bottom of the page, your message is emailed to GrayOrbit from info@nethalo.com and kept on our server so we can improve the product. Your name and email are optional; if you give an email, we send you a copy confirming we received it and may reply.

How long we keep halos

We keep halos so their links keep working, and they’re included in our regular backups.

Removing a halo

The sender can remove a halo from the browser that sent it: open the halo’s link on that device, or go to nethalo.com/mine, and tap Remove this halo. Removal deletes the recipient’s name, the sender’s name, and the message right away, and the link then only says the halo was removed.

We keep a minimal record of a removed halo: its id, when it was created, opened, and removed, its share and report counts, whether it was sent onward from another halo, and the sender’s IP address.

Copies made before removal stay in our backups: on our server for about 7 days, and in our off-site backup until those backups are deleted.

Anyone with a halo’s link can open it, so the link alone can’t remove it. If you received a halo you don’t want, tap Report this halo, or email admin@grayorbit.com. To ask us to remove any halo, email us with its link.

What we don’t do

We don’t sell your information and don’t use it for advertising.

Contact

Email admin@grayorbit.com with privacy questions.

Last updated: November 9, 2026