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title: "NeedPorts Privacy and Logging Policy for Public Port Forwarding"
description: "Learn what operational data NeedPorts may log for reliability, support, billing, and abuse prevention, and what properly encrypted traffic remains private."
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# Privacy and logging at NeedPorts


Learn what operational data NeedPorts may log for reliability, support, billing, and abuse prevention, and what properly encrypted traffic remains private.


## Operational data


NeedPorts may collect tunnel status, assigned endpoint details, bandwidth totals, heartbeat timing, public port activity, errors, and account/subscription metadata needed to operate the service.


## Traffic contents


NeedPorts does not need to inspect SSH keys, TLS secrets, passwords, or properly encrypted application payloads. If you expose plain HTTP, that application traffic is not protected by TLS; use HTTPS for sensitive services.


## Why logs exist


- Reliability monitoring and debugging.
- Billing/subscription support.
- Abuse investigation and rate limiting.
- Capacity planning for tunnel servers.


## User controls


Cancel service when you no longer need public ports. Remove local mappings for services you no longer want reachable. Contact support for privacy or logging questions.

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