Privacy is freedom.
Refuge was created in the fall of 2019 with the invention of the first microphone and camera blocking phone case. After seeing many of his colleagues in tech and high security covering the cameras and mics on their phones with tape and other rudimentary fixes, our founder began to work on a more formal solution. Our microphone and camera blocking case sold out quickly, but it left one major vulnerability- the phone was still "there" in the sense that it was still trackable and hackable: even if the microphones and cameras were covered, big tech, data brokers, invasive governments, or a stalker/hacker could still access or track the phone.
Our 2020 Refuge Privacy Phone Case, just before the age of AI digital art
The Refuge Ghost Sleeve
What we are not.
We are not an opportunist, pop up & leave online business. We've been around for six years now working on a problem we consider significant, and a matter of life or death in some cases.
We don't appreciate companies that virtue signal as American, sell to Americans, but take shortcuts and make their product overseas- so we make ours in America, every step of the way. They tell us our margins would be much better with foreign manufacturing. We don't care.
We don't like annoying discount or email list popups, spam emails from companies after buying a product, nor "abandoned cart" emails, so we don't send them. They tell us those annoyances can eventually win a customer over. We don't care.
We're proud of our product and what it does for our customers, and that's enough for us.
