Privacy Policy

This notice describes how the TalkAgain beta handles information when you match, chat, call, or create an account.

Guest sessions and matching

TalkAgain uses first-party cookies to recognize your browser, remember your age confirmation, and keep you signed in. The server uses your connection address for rate limiting. If you enter a country or gender in the filters, TalkAgain uses those self-reported choices to match you while you wait. The public online count shows a total.

Accounts and messages

When you sign up, TalkAgain stores your name, email address, date of birth, and a protected password hash for password accounts. It uses your date of birth to check that you are at least 18. If you use Google sign-in, TalkAgain also receives your verified email, Google account identifier, and profile names from Google. Other users can see your friend username and whether you are online through the Friends feature.

Random-room and private-room text is forwarded to the other participant without being saved in the app database. Direct messages between friends, friend requests, blocks, and submitted reports are stored so those features work across sessions. Reports contain the details you submit and identifiers for the participants. The beta has no automatic deletion schedule for these stored records. Sign-in sessions expire after 30 days.

Voice and external services

TalkAgain requests microphone access when you choose to look for a random voice match or start or accept a voice call and continue past the microphone prompt. You can revoke browser permission in your browser settings. TalkAgain does not record call audio. Calls use direct browser connections where possible and may expose network addresses to the other participant. Call setup uses a Google STUN service.

TalkAgain loads fonts from Google Fonts. Google sign-in and optional links to GitHub and Buy Me a Coffee open third-party services under their own privacy policies.

Optional purchases

If you unlock the gender filter, Stripe handles payment and receives your checkout information and an internal account identifier. TalkAgain stores the Stripe checkout reference and the account’s unlock status.

Questions about your data