Draft. This page is informational and is pending review by qualified counsel. It is not legal advice. Laws change quickly — verify the current law of your country before relying on anything here.

1. Why this page exists

OxPulse is built for people who need private calls in places where private communication is restricted. In some countries, simply using encrypted or censorship-circumvention software carries legal risk for the user. We believe you deserve to know that risk plainly, and to know exactly what this service does and does not expose about you.

2. Know your local law

As of mid-2026, public reporting documents the following. This list is not exhaustive and penalties change; treat it as a starting point, not a verdict on your situation.

Turkmenistan — use of unapproved encryption or circumvention tools has reportedly led to sentences of up to 7 years.
Iran — a February 2024 law criminalizes unauthorized VPN use, with penalties reported up to 1 year; encrypted apps are blocked but widely used.
Russia — since July 2025, fines for searching "extremist" content via VPN and for promoting circumvention tools; WhatsApp calls and Telegram are throttled or restricted.
China — only state-approved VPNs are lawful; unapproved tools risk fines and account/service consequences.
Myanmar — VPN use has led to arrests since the 2021 coup; checks of phones at checkpoints are reported.
UAE / Oman / Qatar — VoIP over unlicensed apps is restricted; using a VPN "to commit a crime" in the UAE carries fines up to several hundred thousand dollars.
Belarus, Iraq, Turkey — circumvention tools are blocked or restricted in varying degrees, especially during unrest.

If you are in one of these places, decide deliberately whether to use this service, when, and from which device.

3. What OxPulse does not know about you

No accounts. No registration, no phone number, no email. We cannot link a call to a name because we never learn one.
No message store. Signaling data (offer, answer, ICE) exists only for the duration of the call and is purged at hangup.
End-to-end media encryption. Calls are encrypted with DTLS-SRTP (and sFrame for group calls); relay servers forward bytes they cannot read.
Analytics are off by default and, if you opt in, anonymous events are kept at most 30 days.
Transports designed to blend in. Connection paths use TLS that is designed to be difficult to distinguish from ordinary web traffic. No tool can guarantee invisibility — treat resistance to detection as a probability, never a promise.

4. Practical steps that reduce your exposure

Prefer one-time (burner) chat links; do not reuse links that may have been observed.
Verify the person on the other end using the on-screen verification code when it matters.
Do not connect your identity to calls: no real names in room links, no identifying surroundings on camera if your face is sensitive.
Clear the browser's site data for this domain when the device may be inspected; OxPulse keeps no account to restore, so nothing is lost.
Use a screen lock, and know your country's rules about compelled device unlocking.

5. If you are at immediate risk

Digital-security helplines run by civil-society organizations (for example, Access Now's Digital Security Helpline and the EFF's Surveillance Self-Defense guides) provide free, multilingual help. Contact them from a device and network you consider safe.

6. What we will say if asked

We can only disclose what exists. There is no call content, no message history, and no identity store on our side. Our policy on law-enforcement requests is described in the Privacy Policy.