Privacy policy

01What we store

Your email address (to sign you in), display name, year of birth (to confirm you are an adult), languages and levels, interests and time zone, plus your call ratings and feedback if you leave any.

We never ask for photos of documents.

02Video and audio

Calls connect directly between browsers using WebRTC and are always encrypted (DTLS-SRTP). When a direct connection isn’t possible, encrypted traffic passes through our relay server, which cannot decrypt it. We never record calls.

03Live captions

Captions are off by default. If you turn them on, your browser’s built-in speech recognition processes your microphone audio — depending on the browser this may be done by the browser vendor’s service. Halfsies receives only the resulting text to show to your partner and does not store it.

04What we use data for

Matching you with partners, running the 30/30 timer, keeping your word notebook, friends and calendar, sending notifications you enabled, and protecting the community (reports and moderation).

We keep aggregate, anonymous statistics such as how many people are online per language.

05Who we share with

Halfsies servers are in Germany (EU). Data is processed only by the services the site can’t run without: hosting in Germany; Cloudflare for the domain and encrypted backup storage in the EU; Resend for sending email (EU region); your browser’s push service for notifications; Google only if you sign in with Google. We never sell data or share it with ad networks. Your partner sees only your name, languages, levels and interests.

06How long we keep it

Account data is kept while your account exists. When you delete your account, it is hidden immediately and erased within 30 days; it leaves the nightly backups within a further 30 days. Moderation records may be kept longer where required by law.

07Your rights

You can download all your data as JSON and delete your account at any time in Settings. You can also ask us to correct anything that’s wrong.

08Contact

Questions about privacy, or a request to correct or delete your data? Write to hello@halfsies.me from the email address linked to your account.