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Short version: your video and sound go straight from your device to the people in your room, and are never recorded or saved. The only things kept for any length of time are your username, a scrambled copy of your password, and a scrambled copy of your secret answer.
You sign up once with a username and a password. There is no email. The password is scrambled before it is stored (a one-way scramble, so nobody, us included, can read it back), and the same goes for the answer to your secret question, which is the only way back in if you forget the password. Nothing else about you is kept: no email, no phone number, no name.
Logging in leaves a long random token on your phone so it opens straight in next time. It lasts until you press Log out on the Profile tab, or 90 days of not opening the site.
In a video room, nothing is switched on when you join. The camera comes on only when you press Turn on my camera, and your browser asks you before either the camera or the mic is used. You can say no and still be in the room, listening and typing.
In a private video room the picture and sound travel directly between the people in the room. They do not pass through this website's server, and they are never recorded or saved anywhere.
The room's name and the nickname of each person in it. The last 30 chat lines typed in the room, so somebody arriving late does not see a blank screen. If the person who started the room removes somebody, the room keeps a note of that device so it cannot come back through the same link. All of that is thrown away when the room closes.
Reactions (the thumbs up, the laugh and so on) are shown for a few seconds and never kept.
Nothing. There are no accounts, no history, no recordings, and no tracking.
The Chat tab is one public room that anyone can read, and anyone logged in can talk in. There are no cameras in it and no sound, only typing.
Everything you type there is seen by everybody who is in the chat, including people you do not know. Nobody checks a message before other people see it. Do not put your full name, your address, your school or your phone number in it.
The last 200 lines of the chat are kept on this site's own storage, so the conversation is there when you come back; older lines fall off the end. Nothing is kept beyond that.
On the Profile tab you can pick a colour for your name badge, write one line about yourself, and add a photo. Anyone reading the chat sees the badge; anyone who taps your name sees your card: badge or photo, name, your line, and the month you signed up. The photo is shrunk on your phone to 256 pixels before it goes up and is kept on this site's own storage, served only through this site; remove it and it is gone at once. The site's own account can remove anyone's photo.
You can change your username (the new one is your login from then on), your password (other phones logged in as you are logged out), and your secret question. Delete my account removes the account, the photo and every login for good; the username is free again.
Hiding a person is kept on your phone only: their lines and their sound are gone for you, they are not told, and nothing happens to their account.
The Live tab is a stage with six spots. Anyone can watch. Going up puts your username on a tile for everyone watching, and your mic and camera stay off until you press them. When you press, your sound and picture go to Cloudflare's video service and from there to everyone watching; they pass through and are not recorded or saved, by us or by them. Step down and they stop.
One account, the site's own, can mute anyone on stage or bring them down. Who is on stage is kept only while somebody is on the page.
Hold a message in the chat to report the name that wrote it. If 3 different people report the same name inside 10 minutes, that name is put out of the chat for 2 hours, and stays taken for those 2 hours so logging out does not undo it. One report on its own does nothing.
Who reported whom is kept for about 10 minutes so the reports can be counted, then thrown away. It is never shown to anyone. For anything worse, email the address at the bottom of this page.
Adding the site to your phone's home screen puts an icon there and opens the site full screen. It stores nothing extra about you. It is still the same website, not an app from a store.
Some home internet connections will not let two people connect directly. When that happens, the picture and sound are passed through a relay server so the call still works. The relay passes them along and keeps nothing.
Email [email protected].