Privacy Policy
InstaMate (“the app”) lets you go live from your phone, watch other people’s rooms, chat, and join someone on stage. This policy explains what information the app and its server at mosatsu.ai handle. The developer can be reached at [email protected].
1. Information you give us
- Account. You sign in with Apple, Google, or email and password. From Apple or Google we receive the account identifier, your display name, and an email address or profile photo when the provider shares one. For email sign-in we store the email and a hash of the password, not the password itself. You can change the name shown in the app.
- Rooms. When you go live we store the room title, topic, tags, and the time the room starts and ends.
- Chat and stage. Messages and “on stage” video are sent live to people in the room. Chat messages are not saved as a transcript. We do record that you watched a room, for how long, and whether you were on stage, so the live list can rank rooms for you.
- Reports and blocks. If you report or block someone, we store that action and the reason you wrote.
2. Information collected automatically
- Camera and microphone. Used only while you are live or on stage, so other people in the room can see and hear you. The stream is relayed in real time. We do not keep a recording of the video or audio.
- City and country. When a request reaches us through Cloudflare, we may read the city and country Cloudflare adds to the request and store them on your account and on a room you host. They are shown on room cards and used to rank nearby rooms. The app does not ask for GPS.
- Sign-in session. The app keeps a sign-in token on your phone. The server stores only a hash of that token, and when it expires.
3. How we use information
We use this information to:
- sign you in and keep your account;
- run live rooms, chat, and stage;
- show the “Live now” list, including topic, tags, viewer count, and city;
- rank rooms for you from topics you have watched;
- enforce blocks, review reports, and end rooms that break the rules;
- tidy tags. When that feature is on, a room title and its tags may be sent to Anthropic to merge duplicate tags and to hide a room that should not be listed. Video and audio are not sent.
4. Who we share it with
Other people in a room can see your display name, your video and audio while you are publishing, your chat messages, and the city stored on that room. We do not sell personal information.
Service providers that process data for the app:
- Apple and Google, when you sign in with those accounts.
- Cloudflare, which delivers traffic to mosatsu.ai and may supply the city and country headers described above.
- LiveKit, the software on our server that relays live video, audio, and chat inside a room.
- Anthropic, only for the tag tidy described above, and only while that feature is turned on.
5. How long we keep it
Account data stays until you delete the account. A room’s title, topic, tags, and how long it was live stay after the room ends, until the host deletes their account. Sign-in sessions expire. Reports may be kept after an account is deleted, with the reporter’s identity removed, so we can review abuse.
6. Deleting your account
In the app you can delete your account. That removes your profile, sign-in sessions, blocks, watch history, learned interests, and rooms you hosted. You can also request that your data is deleted or email [email protected].
7. Children
InstaMate is not directed at children under 13, and it is meant for people 18 or older. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn that we have, we will delete it. Our standards against child sexual abuse and exploitation explain how to report a concern and how we handle it.
8. Security
The app talks to the server over HTTPS. Sign-in tokens are stored as hashes. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure.
9. International transfers
The server is operated from the United States. If you use the app from another country, your information is processed there.
10. Changes
If this policy changes, the date at the top will change. Continuing to use InstaMate after an update means you accept the revised policy.
11. Contact
Privacy questions or requests:
Email: [email protected]
Web: https://mosatsu.ai/stageside/web/privacy.html
Delete your data: https://mosatsu.ai/stageside/web/delete.html
Child safety: https://mosatsu.ai/stageside/web/csae.html
Terms: https://mosatsu.ai/stageside/web/term.html