A public commitment

The Stamp Pledge

Most social platforms will tell you what they aspire to. Here's what we'll always do, even when it costs us, and what we promise we will never build, no matter the growth pressure.

Read the pledge

What we will always do

The flip side. These are the things you can hold us to, that distinguish Stamp from every other paid social experiment.

  • One post per day per member
    Quality over quantity, by design. The single-post limit is a feature, not a constraint we'll relax under growth pressure.
  • Only your circle sees your posts
    No public timeline. No "explore." No content that strangers can browse. Your circle is the audience, and the audience is invited only.
  • After costs, a third of remaining net profit to community causes
    Not a third of revenue (a marketing trick); a third of actual post-tax profit, after costs are covered, donated by Stamp Social Ltd, not by members. The three UK-registered charities share it equally, so each receives 11% of profit, paid once a year at our financial year-end. If there's no profit that year, there's no donation that year, and each year's donations are recorded in our annual accounts, filed publicly at Companies House.
  • £3/month or £30/year, never adjusted arbitrarily
    The flat fee is the price of joining. We won't adjust it arbitrarily; if we ever need to (e.g. to keep pace with inflation), we'll give at least 30 days' notice and the option to cancel without penalty. No surprise hikes.
  • Three selected charities, with published rationale
    Stamp Social Ltd selects the three directly, with the reasoning published alongside each name. They're selected, not partners, under no obligation to us, and the choice can change over time, with any change published. Our annual accounts at Companies House, which record what we gave, are where you hold us to it.
  • Delete-account that actually deletes
    Settings → Delete account wipes your live data immediately. Backups roll off within 7 days. There is no "deactivated" purgatory or "we keep your data for legal reasons" small print.
  • Full data portability
    Export every post, photo, voice note, and message you've ever sent in machine-readable form. UK GDPR right; we honour it on request inside one month.
  • Plain-English Terms & Privacy
    Our legal documents read like documents you might actually sign. No hidden waivers. No 30-page click-through. Plain-English, member-readable.

What we will never build

Each of these is a feature that has measurably worsened a generation's relationship with social media. We refuse them by design, and we say so in writing here so the position is observable.

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    Algorithmic ranking
    Your feed is chronological, full stop. We won't curate it for "engagement," because optimising attention is what made the rest of the industry toxic.
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    Infinite scroll
    There's a real bottom to the feed. When you've seen what your circle posted, you've seen it. Closing the app is the intended finish line.
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    Public popularity scoreboards
    No "likes" metric. No view counts on posts. Circle counts are visible only inside that member's own circle, never publicly, and each member can hide theirs. Stamp is for sharing, not for being scored.
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    Advertising of any kind, paid, sponsored, or boosted
    Stamp will never display advertising. There is no "boost this post" button. Every member pays the same flat fee. The business model is the moat against attention-extraction.
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    Tracking pixels & behavioural profiles
    We don't track what you read, who you look at twice, where you linger. We use no third-party advertising or analytics SDK that profiles users. Crash reports and aggregate counts only.
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    Selling, sharing, or licensing your data
    Your posts, photos, voice notes, message contents, and circle relationships are not for sale, not at any price, not under any acquisition.
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    "For You" or "Recommended" surfaces
    No algorithmic discovery feed. No "people you might know." No "trending." No suggested content. The only way to add someone to your circle is to invite them deliberately.
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    Dark patterns to inflate engagement
    No streaks designed to manipulate. No fake-urgency notifications. No deceptive "you have 3 new posts" badges that aren't true. No gamified app-open mechanics. Stamp tracks your days as a member, not your daily activity. You are not punished for living your life.
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    Address-book scraping
    We will never request access to your phone contacts to "find your friends." That feature is, in nearly every case, a mass-data-harvesting operation in friendly clothing.
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    Notifications you can't turn off
    Notifications are on to start with, so you actually hear from the people who matter, but every category is a single toggle. Turn any or all of them off in two taps. We never bury the off switch, and we never send fake-urgency or engagement-bait pings.
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    Live-status / typing indicators / read receipts that you can't turn off
    No surveillance theatre. No "is typing…" pressure. No green presence dot showing when you were last on. If you want to be seen, you'll be seen by what you post, which is once a day, when you choose.
How this is held to. The Pledge is a public commitment, not a legal contract, and is not enforceable as one. Its credibility comes from being on the public record. If we ever broke a pledge, we would have to do it in front of every member, every journalist, and every regulator who cares to look. That's the point. The instruments behind the words on this page are the Terms of Service, the Privacy Policy, and our annual accounts filed publicly at Companies House (which record each year's charity donations). Receiving charities are selected, not partners, and each payment is an outright unconditional donation. Members are not parties to those donations and cannot direct or enforce them; members' enforceable rights remain their consumer-protection and data-protection rights at law. Each instrument is available from the foundation site.
This page versions over time. If we ever amend these commitments, we will say so with a date and a reason, never silently. Nothing on this page is intended to create rights or obligations beyond what UK law requires; your statutory consumer, data-protection, and moderation-appeal rights stand on their own.
Stamp Social Ltd, Company No. 17188757, registered office 71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9JQ. Registered with the ICO (ZC142084) under the Data Protection Act 2018.