ChatAve
What information ChatAve touches when you chat with strangers — guest sessions, mic and camera, cookies, payments, analytics — and what it never touches.
Say hi to a stranger →ChatAve is a text-first stranger chat, free to start, with no registration. This policy explains what data the service handles when you browse the site, get matched, switch on voice or video, buy coins, or write to support — and what it never handles. Where legal phrasing would bury the point, we use the plain one instead.
You can chat as a guest without creating an account, so a first conversation asks for essentially nothing. If you choose to register, we store the basics you provide — a login identifier, a display name, and any preferences you set. If you buy coins, the order record (what you bought, when, in what amount, in USD) is kept so your balance stays correct. If you contact support, we keep the message and its thread.
Every match opens as text, so a mic or camera is never required to use ChatAve. When you switch one on, the permission prompt comes from your browser or operating system, and you can revoke it in your device settings at any moment. Audio and video in a 1v1 session exist to connect the two of you in real time; ChatAve does not build an archive of your sessions. Never record the other person — the community guidelines make that a hard rule.
Running a live matching service takes technical data: device and browser type, approximate region inferred from your IP address, session timing, and interaction events like matches and skips. Safety signals — reports, blocks, and the context around them — are processed so reported behavior can be reviewed. This is operational data, not a personality profile, and it is not sold.
ChatAve uses cookies and local storage for unglamorous jobs: keeping a guest session alive, remembering your language, restoring where you left off, and blocking fraud and automated abuse. Analytics cookies show which pages people use and where they leave, so the product improves. You can clear or block cookies in your browser; the site still loads, though session continuity may break.
Coin purchases are handled by third-party payment processors. ChatAve receives a confirmation and an order reference — your full card number never touches our servers. Prices are shown in USD before you confirm anything.
We use third-party analytics (such as Google Analytics) to measure traffic and usage in aggregate. These partners receive pseudonymous identifiers and event data under their own privacy terms. They do not receive your chats, your camera feed, or anything identifying the stranger you talked to.
Inside a match, the stranger sees what you type and, if you enable them, your voice and camera — treat all of that as shared with them, because it is. Outside your matches, there is no directory or profile for other users to browse. We do not sell personal data, and we share it only with the providers that run the platform (hosting, payments, analytics) under contract, or where the law requires it.
Account and order records are kept while the account exists and for the period afterward needed to resolve disputes, prevent fraud, and meet legal obligations. Safety reports are kept long enough to act on and to recognize repeat offenders. Data that no longer serves a real purpose is deleted or anonymized rather than stockpiled.
The everyday controls are the strongest ones: text by default, camera and mic opt-in, and a skip button that ends any chat instantly — true whether you use ChatAve for an anonymous chat or a voice chat with strangers. Depending on where you live, you may also have legal rights to access, correct, delete, or export your data; send any such request through the contact form and name the part of ChatAve it concerns.
ChatAve is for people who have reached the age of majority where they live, and we do not knowingly collect data from minors; any account found to belong to one is removed. If this policy changes, the updated version replaces this page, and continuing to use ChatAve afterward means you accept it. Questions go through the contact form on this site.