# Chatenium's Privacy Policy

## Welcome!

This Privacy Policy shows how we store and protect your personal information through our services.

- We care about your privacy. We are committed to creating an extra secure message platform where people's data is safe and not shared.
- We do not sell your personal data. We are a non-profit group. We do not share your personal data with other companies.
- We collect the bare minimum of data we need at login. When you log into your account we collect your browser's version, operating system's name and your selected language inside Chatenium for account security. (Logging out will clear stored data from our database)

## All the information we collect

### Information that you provide

- Account information. When you register to Chatenium you can either use social logins, or provide a username, display name, password and an e-mail address. When using social logins, we collect your e-mail address to manage your account and prevent duplicates.
- Content you upload or send. This includes everything you upload to our services (media, message, etc...).

### Information we collect automatically

- Information about your device. As mentioned earlier, we collect your browser's information, operating system's information and the current selected language for security reasons.

## How we handle client-side storage

- Cookies.
  - Your authorization token is stored here.
  - We do not use cookies for analytics or to track you.
- LocalStorage. Used to enhance user experience by saving settings made by the user like:
  - Selected language
  - Selected microphone
  - Selected camera
  - Selected theme
- IndexedDB. Used to boost performance and enable offline support via PWA.
  - Messages
  - Files

## How we use your data

- To provide you with services. For example when you start a call, WebRTC collects your audio / camera / screen information to make it work.
- To contact you. We use your e-mail address to contact you whenever needed. E-mail can also be used for account recovery.
- Data sharing. We do not share any data with third parties.

## How we protect your information.

- Secure communication. All data between the client and the server is encrypted using Transport Layer Security (TLS).
- Secure data storage. After communication is finished, the messages and the files are encrypted before storing it.

When editing or deleting a messages or a file we will permanently delete them from our database and client side caches.
Last modified: December 15. 2025
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