Legal
Cookie Policy
What gets written into your browser, why each kind is there, and how to clear all of it. No advertising cookies, and nothing about the chats themselves.
Effective
Why a browser stores anything at all
A web page has no memory between loads. Anything the site needs to remember — that you already dismissed a notice, that your camera permission was granted, that a session is in progress — has to be written somewhere in your browser.
Cookies are one way of doing that. Local storage is another. This page uses "cookies" loosely to mean both, because the distinction matters to developers and not to the person reading this.
What we store, by purpose
- Necessary
- Keeps a session working — that you are in a chat, that a permission was already granted, that you dismissed something. Without these the site does not function, so they cannot be switched off from our side.
- Preference
- Remembers small choices so you are not asked twice.
- Analytics
- Aggregate measurement — which pages get opened, roughly how long sessions last, where things break. Used to decide what to fix, not to build a profile of you.
There is no advertising category. We do not run ad networks on this site and nothing here is used to target you with advertising elsewhere.
What is not stored
- The chats themselves. Video is live and never recorded, so there is nothing about a conversation to keep.
- Your real name, address or phone number — the service does not ask for them.
- A record of who you were matched with. Matching is anonymous and stays that way.
Clearing or blocking it
This is entirely in your hands, and it does not require our permission or a settings page on our side:
- Every major browser can clear cookies and site data for one specific site. Search its settings for "site data" or "clear browsing data".
- Every major browser can block cookies for a site outright, or block third-party cookies globally.
- Private or incognito windows discard everything when the window closes.
The trade-off is honest: blocking necessary storage will break the chat rather than merely reduce tracking, because the session has nowhere to keep its state.
Third parties
Analytics is provided by a third-party measurement service, which sets its own storage under its own policy. If you block third-party cookies in your browser, that is respected — the site keeps working without it. What we do with the resulting data is covered in the privacy policy.
Changes
If what we store changes materially, the date at the top changes with it. If we ever add a consent banner, this page will say so rather than leaving you to discover it.