Short answer: no, not in any meaningful sense. Video never reaches our servers at all, and text messages exist in server memory only for as long as your session is active. There's no archive sitting somewhere that you could look back on, even if you wanted to.
Video and voice calls on Chatzyo run over WebRTC, using a peer-to-peer connection. That means your video stream goes directly from your device to the other person's device — it's not relayed through a central server that could record or archive it along the way. This isn't a policy we apply on top of a system that's technically capable of storing your video; it's the architecture itself. There's no recording, because there's no point in the data's path where a server-side recording could even happen.
The connection is encrypted using standard WebRTC protocols, which protects it from being intercepted by anyone outside the call — your internet provider, for instance — but that's a separate property from the no-storage part. Even without encryption, the peer-to-peer routing alone is what keeps Chatzyo from ever holding a copy.
Unlike video, text messages do pass through our server briefly — that's how the message actually gets delivered to the other person. While a session is active, those messages live in server memory. The moment the session ends, that memory is cleared. There's no database recording what was said, no log file building up a history, and nothing to retrieve afterward, including by us.
This is also where our basic content filter operates — checking for patterns like phone numbers or email addresses being shared. That filter works on the text as it passes through, in real time. It doesn't create a separate stored record of the conversation either; it's a pattern check, not logging.
Your browser keeps the conversation visible on your screen while you're in it, which is just normal page behavior, not a Chatzyo-specific storage feature. Once you refresh the page, close the tab, or navigate away, that's gone from your side too. If you specifically want nothing held even temporarily in your own browser session, using a private or incognito window is a reasonable extra step, though it's not required for the core privacy guarantee — that part holds either way, since Chatzyo's server itself isn't keeping anything regardless of what your browser does locally.
This is a fair question, and the honest answer is that moderation here is built around reports, not around having a record to check. When someone presses Report, what gets logged is the report itself — the category selected, a session identifier, a timestamp — not a copy of what was said or shown. A person reviews that report, not a recording, because no recording exists to review. For the full picture of how that works, see our guide on how moderation actually works.
This is a genuine tradeoff worth naming honestly: not keeping a record means we can't independently verify exactly what happened in a disputed session after the fact. We think that's the right tradeoff for a platform built this way, but it does mean reports are the entire mechanism — there's no backup layer of stored evidence behind them.
Not storing conversations in the first place is a simpler position to be in than collecting data and then having policies about how it's protected. Our Privacy Policy covers the fuller picture of what is collected (mainly technical security logs, like IP addresses kept for up to 30 days for abuse prevention) and the rights available to users in places like the EU. We'd rather point you to that full policy than make a sweeping claim of certified compliance with any specific law here — what we can say plainly is that conversation content itself was never something we held onto to begin with.