This privacy notice for HiCome ('we', 'us', or 'our', 'website', 'https://hicome.chat/', 'HiCome'), governs the manner in which HiCome collects, stores and uses ('process') users' ('User', 'Users) information, when they use our services ('Service', 'Services').
What personal information do we process?
We may collect personal informaton from Users when Users:
a. visit login site
b. login on the site
c. send messages in private or group chats
d. send messages in chatrooms
When a person visits the login site (a), we save their IP address in order to serve our own Captcha service (service allowing for verification of a human authenticity, during a logging process).
During login process (b), Users are asked to provide required information about their:
- username
- age
- gender
- country/nationality
and can decide to provide additional, unrequired information, related to:
- tags, describing the User's characteristics
When a logged User sends messages in private chat, group chat or in chatrooms (c, d), their message gets saved on the server in order to view the message and enable receiving of it by other Users.
For what time are the Users' personal information stored on the server?
Users' personal information are stored on the website's server, according to the following cases:
a.
1. For a maximum time of 1 hour after a not logged User reloads the captcha (includes refreshing the login page or clicking a "reload captcha" button on it).
2. After User's login, the given data (including Their IP address) get deleted from the server immediately.
b.
1. For the time user is logged to the website. After the user loggs out or gets logged out from the website, the account data provided by the user during a logging-in process get deleted from the server immediately.
2. For the maximum time of 24 hours after loggin-in to the website, after which the User gets logged out automatically.
c. For the time any user participating in a private or group chat is logged in. After all Users, who participated in the private or group chat logged out or got logged out, the entire chat data, including messages and related participants' data of a given chat get deleted immediately.
d. For a maximum time of 2 hours after sending a message, after which the message of the User gets deleted from the server and, therefore, becomes unavailable for other Users to read.
The above times are adjusted so, to provide comfort of using the website for the User and to not overload the server with too often, repeated checking, performed by scripts' executions on the server.
How we protect Users' information?
We protect your information by frequent deletion of User's information from our servers, described by the cases above.
What non-personal information do we collect?
We do not collect any non-personal information, neither relating to, for example, the User's browser, operating system nor Internet service provider.
Is this website intended to attract people under 18 years old?
The website is intended only for people above or having 18 years old and is not designed to attract people under 18 years old. The website's login form restricts the age-choice option to at least 18. Even though logging-in to the website is not possible without breaking the website's Terms of use and the website implements the censorship of text expression in chatrooms, please notice, we are not responsible for any activities of the Users on the website nor the course of communication between the Users. Please take appriopriate measures of protection of minors under your care, by disallowing access to the website by them.
Also, please remember, we do not implement any mechanisms allowing us to verify the authenticity of the Users.
Does this website use third-party services?
The website does not implement any third-party services.
Captcha service is provided by the website itself.
Does this website use any tracking or analytics servies?
The website does not implement any tracking nor analytics services.
Does the website include advertisements?
The website does not include advertisements.
Does the website use browser cookies?
The website does use "cookies" on purpose, only in order to serve login session service. Cookies are NOT used in order to track user's actions on the website, are not collected and remain only on the client's side for enabling user's login session on the website.
What other web technologies does this website use?
This website uses localStorage in order to save User's inputs, like login forms' data on their devices (client side), so that the User doesn't have to enter or set everything again, e.g. every page refresh.
What are your privacy rights?
You have a control over direct storage of account information on our server, provided by you during login process, by logging out from the website. This does not include your chats and chatrooms activity, which, however, eventually gets deleted too, according to the website's practices described above.
Will we update this privacy policy?
We may update this privacy policy. We will provide information about the changes in it, in this case.
Terms of use:
By using the website and sending the login form, Users agree:
- with the conditions given in this privacy policy
- NOT to impersonate any other, real person
- respect the well-being of other website's Users
- not to act in order to harm, harass or abuse any other User
- not to use the site in order to engage in immoral, law-breaking or illegal activities
and accept, that only users above 18 years old can use the website.
How can you contact us?
If you have any questions related to this privacy policy or terms of use of this website, or other website-related questions, concerns, complaints, suggestions, problems, or if you've spotted any errors in the website, you can contact us by the e-mail: caemacc@proton.me.
FAQ:
Can you use this website without Javascript enabled?
This website relies to a considerable extent on the usage of Javascript in its code. Without Javascript enabled, AJAX calls, serving e.g. capturing chat and chatroom messages, sending messages or fetching list of logged users couldn't be served, so the usage of the website would like become impossible.
Can a User edit their message, after the message got sent?
An User cannot edit their sent messages.