Privacy policy

Information we collect and use

• Profile information, including your nickname, age, gender, automatically detected country, avatar, and online status.
• Session and communication information needed to operate the service, including conversation participants, message times, delivery and read status, blocked sessions, and encrypted messages.
• Your IP address, used to determine your country and help prevent misuse.
• Temporary typing status and reports of inappropriate behavior. Reports contain the selected reason and information identifying the reported conversation, but not message contents.

We process this information to provide the service, deliver messages, maintain sessions, show communication status, and prevent misuse. We do not sell personal information. Google AdSense may process browsing information for advertising as described below.

Messages are end-to-end encrypted

Messages are protected by end-to-end encryption. The keys needed to read messages remain on participants’ devices. We store messages in encrypted form and cannot read their contents.

Public profiles, conversation participants, and message times are available to the service. Encryption does not prevent recipients from copying or sharing messages, and protection depends on the security of participants’ devices and the service. Connection verification is available in the conversation menu.

Browser storage and service providers

We use cookies and browser storage to maintain your session, protect messages, retain local chat history, manage pending messages, and remember preferences. See our Cookie policy for details.

Country is determined from your network connection. A VPN or proxy may affect the result. We do not send your IP address to a separate geolocation provider. Hosting and network providers process information as necessary to deliver the service.

Advertising

We use Google AdSense. Google may process information such as your IP address, browser details, and activity on this site to provide advertising, measure performance, and prevent fraud. Google may use cookies and similar technologies, subject to applicable consent requirements. See how Google uses information from partner sites. We do not provide message contents to Google.

Data retention

An entire conversation is eligible for deletion when both participants have been inactive for over one hour and its most recent message is at least 24 hours old. An isolated background worker checks at startup and hourly. This includes delivered and undelivered messages. Messages may remain longer than 24 hours while either participant stays active, and service interruptions or busy records may delay deletion. Empty conversations use their creation time. Inactive session records are removed when no longer needed for retained conversations. Reports are retained for seven days. Temporary abuse-prevention records expire when their purpose is complete.

Leaving the chat ends your session and clears its chat history, pending messages, and encryption keys from your browser. Server records remain subject to the retention periods above. Copies kept by recipients are outside our control. Your nickname, age, gender, and sound preferences remain in this browser until you clear site data, so the join form can remember your choices. Backup copies, where maintained, may remain beyond these periods until replaced or removed.

Your choices and privacy requests

You may block other sessions, report inappropriate behavior, leave the service, or clear site data through your browser settings. Leaving a session or deleting its encryption keys prevents recovery of its conversations.

Depending on your location, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, object to, or obtain a copy of personal information, and to complain to your local privacy regulator. OhMyFriends is responsible for handling privacy-related requests. We may require information to verify your connection to the relevant session. As the service does not require account registration, we may be unable to identify records associated with you after the session has ended.

Adults only and policy changes

The service is intended for adults aged 18 or older. Ages are provided by users and are not independently verified. Suspected use by a minor may be reported through the service. Policy amendments will be published on this page with a revised effective date.

Operator and contact

Company: OhMyFriends
Point of contact: OhMyFriends