The simplest way to protect data is to never collect it in the first place. That's the actual reasoning behind most of how Chatzyo is built — not a slogan, but a real design constraint that shapes what features exist and which ones deliberately don't.
Logging in with Google or Facebook on a chat platform links your real identity — name, email, your social graph — to whatever happens in that chat. Even on a platform that calls itself anonymous, that link exists somewhere in a database. If that database is ever breached, conversations that felt anonymous can be traced back to a real person.
Chatzyo skips this entirely. There's no email, no phone number, no third-party login — nothing that could connect a session to a specific identity, because that connection was never created.
Beyond just skipping login, Chatzyo doesn't build a profile behind the scenes either. Each session is independent — there's no internal record connecting today's conversation to yesterday's, and no "remember this user" mechanism running quietly in the background. Refresh the page, and as far as matching is concerned, you're starting fresh, the same as anyone else just arriving.
This is a deliberate omission worth explaining, since it's a feature people sometimes expect. A friends or saved-contacts list would require storing a record of who talked to whom — exactly the kind of relationship database the rest of this design avoids. We've chosen not to build it, even though it's a genuinely common, well-liked feature elsewhere, because it doesn't fit a platform built around not keeping that kind of record.
Not collecting data isn't a pure win with no cost — it's worth naming the tradeoff directly. Because there's no account and no stored history, moderation here is entirely reactive, built around the Report button and a person reviewing what comes in, rather than a system that can look back at a stored record to investigate something after the fact. There's also no way to message someone again later if you didn't exchange contact details during the conversation itself — there's no "find them again" feature, because there's no record connecting that conversation to a future one.
We think this is the right tradeoff for what Chatzyo is — a place for spontaneous conversation, not a relationship-management platform — but it is a real tradeoff, and we'd rather say so than imply this approach has no downsides.
It's used to establish the connection and kept in security logs for up to 30 days for abuse prevention, then automatically deleted. It's not linked to an account, because there isn't one to link it to.
There's no chat history stored on our servers to steal. Video never reaches our servers at all, and text only exists in memory for the duration of a session.
Through reports, reviewed by a person, with enforcement at the IP address level rather than an account level. The full picture is in our moderation guide.
If any of this changes in the future — if Chatzyo ever does add accounts or persistent features — this page and our Privacy Policy would be updated to say so plainly, rather than quietly shifting what's collected without changing what we tell you about it.