We collect as little as a browser company can, and we say exactly what that is.
The website
noahbrowser.com has no advertising and sets no cookies. To learn which pages people read and how many reserve a seat, it uses PostHog, hosted in the EU, in its cookieless mode: nothing is stored in your browser, no IP address is kept, no session is recorded, and a visitor can't be followed from one day to the next. If your browser blocks PostHog, the site works the same. The site is served by Vercel, which keeps ordinary server logs (the address a request came from, the browser it used) for a short time in order to run the service.
What you give us, and what we do with it
- A telegram (the email form on the front page): your email address. We use it to send one message when the beta opens and one when Noah ships. Nothing else.
- A reservation: your email address and the ticket you chose. We use it to write to you when the beta opens, with the download and a way to pay the founding price we held for you.
- Crew: your name, email, the berth you picked and what you wrote. Kept until a berth opens or you ask us to delete it.
These are stored in a database hosted by Supabase and sent through Resend, the service that delivers our email. Both act only on our instructions. We do not sell, rent or share your details with anyone else, and we do not add you to any list you did not ask for.
Payments
When paid seats open, the purchase is handled by a payment partner that acts as the seller of record. They take your card details; we never see your card number. Their privacy policy covers the payment itself, and we receive only what we need to issue your licence: your email, the ticket, and the amount.
The browser
- One account, as Arc had. You sign in once when you first open Noah (Apple, Google, or an email code). The account holds your ticket, the Macs you have signed in on, and, when sync ships, your Spaces, pinned tabs, folders and favourites. It never holds your passwords, which stay in your Mac's own store or your password manager.
- No telemetry. Noah makes three calls of its own: it checks for updates (sending the version it is running), it checks your account (to see your ticket is live), and, once sync ships, it syncs your sidebar to your account. Sync data is encrypted on the way and at rest. That is all.
- Crash reports are off unless you turn them on. If you do, a report describes the crash, not your browsing.
- Your browsing goes where you send it. Pages, search suggestions and extensions talk to the sites and services you choose, as in any browser. Noah adds no tracking of its own.
- Your data stays yours. Spaces, pinned tabs and folders live in files on your Mac first, and in your account second. Export them any time, in open formats, from inside Noah. Delete your account and everything in it is gone within 30 days.
Your rights
Ask us what we hold about you, correct it, or have it deleted: write to hello@noahbrowser.com. We answer within 30 days, usually much sooner. Every email we send has a way to stop further emails.
Changes
If this page changes in a way that matters, we post the new version here with a new date and tell people who have reserved a seat by email.
Who we are
Noah is an independent project. It is not affiliated with The Browser Company; Arc is their trademark, used here only to say what Noah is compatible with. The person responsible for your data can be reached at hello@noahbrowser.com.