Privacy

This is a plain-language summary of how Kahoo handles data. It is written to be read, not to be survived.

What Kahoo never collects

• No video recordings. Calls are peer to peer; nothing in the path can record them.
• No audio recordings. Same reason.
• No chat transcripts. Text messages are relayed between browsers and never written to a database.
• No browser fingerprinting. No canvas hashing, no font enumeration, no device profiling.
• No advertising trackers or third-party analytics. None at all.
• No date of birth. Kahoo stores that you confirmed you are 18 or older, not when you were born.

What Kahoo does store

If you use Kahoo as a guest

• A random identifier our server issues to your browser, in an HttpOnly cookie.
• Whether you confirmed you are 18 or older, and when.
• The country you selected.
• How many seconds of video chat you have used today, so the daily allowance can be enforced.
• A coarse, salted network bucket used only to detect coordinated abuse. It is a one-way hash of a heavily truncated address, is never shown to anyone, and cannot be turned back into an IP address.

If you sign in with Google

• An internal account identifier, generated by us and unrelated to your email.
• Your Google subject identifier and email address, used to recognise you on your next sign-in. Your email is never shown to another user.
• Your display name, avatar, country, and — only if you turn it on — your state or region.
• Your chosen interests, your follower and following counts.

About conversations

• That a session happened, between which two identities, when, for how long, and why it ended.
• Whether the video connection succeeded, which is how we diagnose connectivity problems.

This metadata exists so a report can be tied to a real interaction. It contains nothing of what was said or shown.

Moderation

• Reports you file or receive, including the reason and any note you wrote.
• Moderation cases, warnings, restrictions and appeals.
• Abuse signals such as rate-limit trips. These record that something happened, not what.

Analytics

Kahoo counts events like "a search started" into daily totals, with an optional country. There is no per-user analytics table, no session identifier, and no way to reconstruct one person's behaviour from these counts.

What other people can see about you

Your display name (or "Guest"), your avatar, your country, interests you share with them, and — for accounts — your follower count. That is the entire list. Never your email, your IP address, your precise location, or your moderation history.

Cookies

One cookie: your session. It is HttpOnly, so scripts cannot read it, and it carries an opaque signed token rather than any personal detail. There are no advertising or analytics cookies.

How long things are kept

• Text chat: never stored.
• Session cookie: 30 days, or until you sign out.
• Guest usage: per day, and only meaningful for the current day.
• Session metadata: kept while it may be needed for a moderation case.
• Moderation records: kept for the life of the restriction and its appeal window.

Your choices

• Sign out at any time, which revokes the session immediately on the server.
• Turn region sharing off — it is off by default.
• Change or remove your interests, display name and country from your account page.
• Ask us to delete your account and its data from the contact page.

Children

Kahoo is 18+. We do not knowingly hold data about anyone under 18, and accounts reported as underage are reviewed by a person.

Changes

If this page changes materially, the date at the top changes with it. Kahoo is in active development, and this document is kept honest about what the software actually does today.