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Privacy Policy
Last updated: 15 September 2026 · Applies to the Movvinchat Android app and the web companion at movvin.space
Movvinchat ("Movvin", "we", "us") is a messaging app. This policy explains, in plain language, what information the app handles, why, and what control you have over it. By creating an account you agree to it.
1. What we collect
| Data | When | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Account details — phone number and/or Google account email, username, profile photo, optional business name | When you sign up or edit your profile | To create your account, let people find and recognise you, and sign you in |
| Messages and media — text, photos, videos, documents, voice notes, and content created with tools (checklists, polls, invitations, forms, whiteboards, games, bill splits) | When you send or receive them | To deliver them to the people you chose and show them on all your devices |
| Status posts | When you post a status | To show it to the audience you picked for 24 hours |
| Location | Only while Radar is on, while you share a live/static location, or when you use Explore or the Weather tool | See Location & Radar |
| Contacts you chat with | As you message people | To build your conversation list, pickers for tools, broadcast lists and status privacy lists. We do not upload your phone's address book. |
| Device & session data — push-notification token, device model, app version, sign-in time | Each time you sign in | To deliver notifications and show your Connected Devices list so you can sign out a device remotely |
| Usage events — which screens and tools you use, sends, opens | While you use the app | To understand what's working and fix problems. Not linked to message content. |
| Advertising ID | When an ad is shown | See Ads |
2. How we use it
- To run the service: deliver messages and calls, sync across your phone and the web companion, send notifications, keep tools live for everyone in a conversation.
- To keep it safe: enforce blocks, group admin rules, "avoid some people", reports of users and groups, and to prevent abuse.
- To improve it: aggregate usage to decide what to build and to find bugs.
- To show ads: in the two ad slots described below, so the app can stay free.
We do not read your messages to build advertising profiles, and we never sell your personal data.
3. Location & Radar
Location is used only for features you switch on:
- Radar shows people within roughly 200 metres who also have Radar on. While Radar is on, your position is refreshed on our servers about every 12 seconds and is removed from the map within minutes of the app closing. Radar shows only your radar identity — a public name and a doodle or radar-only photo you choose — never your real name or profile photo until you accept a connect request.
- Live location sharing sends your position to the people in that chat for the duration you chose (30 minutes to 3 days) or until you tap Stop. A static pin is a single point and is never tracked.
- Explore and Weather use your location once to find places or conditions near you.
Turn Radar off in the Radar tab or revoke the location permission in Android settings at any time.
4. Who sees what
- People you message see your username, profile photo, business tag, your messages, and your read/typing status in that conversation.
- Broadcast lists are private to you: recipients receive an ordinary one-to-one message and never see the list, its name, or the other recipients.
- Shared tools (a checklist, poll, form, whiteboard or game) show every participant's actions — for example who ticked an item or how a poll is going — to everyone who has that tool.
- Forms: the form creator sees every response. Response access can be given to others only by the creator.
- Service providers we rely on: our hosting provider (server and database), Google Firebase Cloud Messaging (push notifications), Google AdMob (ads), OpenStreetMap tiles (maps), and Open-Meteo / OpenStreetMap Nominatim (weather and place lookups, which receive coordinates but no account details).
- Legal requests: we disclose data only where required by applicable law.
5. Ads
Movvinchat is free and ad-supported. Ads appear in two places: a banner at the bottom of the Explore tab and an occasional card marked "Sponsored" inside a chat. Each slot may show either an ad served by Google AdMob or one of our own promotional cards.
When AdMob serves an ad, Google may collect your device's advertising ID and coarse device information to select and measure ads, under Google's advertising policies. You can reset or delete your advertising ID and opt out of personalised ads in Android settings → Google → Ads. Our own promotional cards do not collect anything beyond a count of views and taps.
6. Retention & deletion
- Messages and media stay until you delete them. "Delete for me" hides a message from your view; "Delete for everyone" removes it for all recipients (and every copy of a broadcast). Disappearing messages are removed 48 hours after sending.
- Status posts expire after 24 hours.
- Live location is kept only for the share's duration; Radar positions are dropped when they go stale.
- Sessions end when you sign out (from that device, or remotely from Connected Devices).
- Your account: request deletion in the app under Account → Privacy & Security → Account deletion, or follow the steps at Delete your account & data. Requests are completed within 30–40 days; your profile, messages you sent, media and tool data are removed, except where we must keep a record to comply with law or resolve a dispute.
7. Security
Data travels over HTTPS. Sessions use signed tokens you can revoke per device. Media uploads are stored on our servers and served only through the app's authenticated links. No system is perfectly secure; if we learn of a breach affecting your data we will notify you as required by law.
8. Children
Movvinchat is not intended for children under 13 (or the minimum age in your country). We do not knowingly collect data from children; if you believe a child has an account, contact us and we will remove it.
9. Your rights
Depending on where you live you may have the right to access, correct, export, restrict or delete your personal data, and to object to certain processing. Most of this you can do directly in the app (edit profile, delete messages, sign out devices, delete your account). For anything else, contact us below — we respond within 30 days.
10. Contact
Movvin
Email: support@movvin.space
Web: movvin.space/chat
We may update this policy as the app changes. The date at the top always shows the current version; significant changes are announced in the app.