Privacy Policy
Your privacy on ChatHalls
Last updated: October 7, 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how ChatHalls collects, uses, stores, and protects information when you use the website.
Information we collect
Account information. If you create an account, we may process information such as your email address, username, display name, account identifiers, consent records, and profile settings.
Posts and community activity. Content you submit to ChatHalls may be stored along with information required to operate moderation, reporting, voting, pinning, and account-safety features.
Anonymous posts. You may post without creating a registered account. Anonymous does not mean that absolutely no technical information is processed. Limited security information may be used to prevent abuse, spam, duplicate submissions, and excessive posting.
Profile images. If you upload a custom profile image, the image may be stored privately while awaiting moderation. Uploaded images may be rejected or removed if they violate the Community Guidelines.
Technical and security information. We may process limited technical information necessary to operate the service, protect accounts, enforce rate limits, investigate abuse, and maintain security.
How we use information
- Provide and maintain ChatHalls.
- Authenticate registered users.
- Publish and display permitted public content.
- Prevent spam, fraud, abuse, and automated misuse.
- Enforce our Terms and Community Guidelines.
- Investigate reports and moderation issues.
- Protect users, the public, and the service.
- Understand and improve service reliability and performance.
- Comply with applicable legal obligations.
Public information
ChatHalls is a public posting service. Published posts, usernames, display names, approved profile images, and public profile activity may be visible to anyone, including people who are not signed in and search engines that index public pages.
Do not post information that you want to keep private.
Service providers
ChatHalls uses third-party infrastructure providers to operate the service. These may include Supabase for database, authentication, and storage services, and Vercel for application hosting and delivery.
These providers may process technical information as necessary to provide their services, subject to their respective privacy terms and security practices.
Cookies and authentication
ChatHalls may use cookies or similar browser storage required for authentication, session management, security, preferences, and other essential website functions.
Where required by applicable law, non-essential cookies or similar technologies will be handled through appropriate consent controls.
Advertising
ChatHalls may display advertising in the future, including advertising provided by Google AdSense or another advertising provider.
Advertising providers may use cookies or similar technologies to deliver, measure, and personalize ads where permitted. If advertising requiring consent is enabled, ChatHalls will provide consent choices where required by applicable law.
You can learn more about how Google handles information through Google's Privacy Policy.
Data retention
We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary to provide the service, maintain security, meet legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our policies.
Some abuse-prevention records are intentionally short-lived. For example, rate-limit and duplicate-post protection data may be automatically removed after short retention periods.
Security
We use technical and organizational safeguards intended to protect information and limit unauthorized access. However, no internet service or storage system can guarantee absolute security.
Age requirement
ChatHalls is intended only for people who are at least 18 years old. We do not knowingly offer the service to children.
Privacy requests
Depending on where you live, you may have rights concerning access, correction, deletion, restriction, or other processing of your personal information.
To make a privacy request, contact us at cosmic@cosmiccivilizations.com.
Changes to this policy
We may update this Privacy Policy as ChatHalls evolves. When we make material changes, we will update the date on this page and may provide additional notice where appropriate.