Privacy Policy

1. Who controls your data

YUZI ("we", "us") runs Talkven and decides how your data is handled. Reach us about anything in this policy at noreply@yuzi.nl.

2. What we collect

• Account details. Your handle, display name, an optional email address, and a hashed password. Account recovery and email notifications need an email address.
• Conversation and safety data. Statements, stance, language, waiting-room and join-request details, conversation participation and timing, blocks, and reports you send to us. Freestyle matches available participants without requiring a topic.
• Debate and rating data. The challenges you post or accept, the side you take, scheduled times, the peer ratings you give and receive (clarity, argument, civility) and any note you attach, plus your follows and interests.
• Activity data. Your practice reps, daily streaks, and which debates you joined, so the streak engine and your stats work.
• Device and notification data. If you enable browser notifications, we store the push subscription needed to deliver them. Requests also contain technical information such as your IP address and browser type, used to deliver the service and prevent abuse.
• Payment metadata. This website launches free with paid Talk features disabled. Any historical payment identifiers and subscription status may remain; we do not store full card numbers. Web payment integrations use Mollie.

Live audio is processed in real time through our self-hosted LiveKit server to connect participants. We do not record or store conversation audio. The web Solo Practice recording stays in your browser and never reaches us.

3. What is public by design

Talkven is a public debating society, not a private journal. The following are visible to anyone, signed in or out: your handle, display name, interests, the challenges and completed debates tied to you, the ratings you received, your streaks, and your place in The Standings. They show up on public profiles, the board, The Record, share pages, and the leaderboard. Treat anything you type into a topic, a rating note, or a profile field as published. Your email address and password are never public.

4. How we use it

• Run the core loop: match debaters, schedule rounds, issue the short-lived voice tokens, and record peer ratings.
• Build the public surfaces above, plus your private board and stats.
• Send the notices that keep a scheduled debate working: an iOS push or a web email when your challenge is accepted, when a debate is about to start, or when someone challenges you directly.
• Bill and manage your Pro subscription, and keep the entitlement in sync across web and iOS.
• Keep the Service safe: enforce the conduct rules, investigate reports, and prevent abuse.

5. Who else touches your data

We share data with a short list of processors, only as far as each one needs to do its job:

• Hosting infrastructure runs the website, database and self-hosted LiveKit voice server. Live audio passes through this infrastructure; it is not recorded by Talkven.
• Mollie is our web payment integration. Paid Talk features are disabled at launch; no purchase is needed to join conversations.
• Browser notification services deliver notifications when you opt in. Your browser provider handles the delivery to your device.
• Our email provider sends the web notification emails over SMTP.

We do not sell your data. We may disclose it when the law requires, or to protect the rights and safety of our debaters and the Service.

6. Cookies and your session

The web app sets a session cookie so it can remember you are signed in and protect forms against cross-site request forgery. We use it to run the site, not to track you across the web for advertising. The iOS app authenticates with a token it stores on the device, not with cookies.

Only if you choose “Allow analytics”, Google Analytics measures visits to our public homepage, statements library, guide overview and support page while you are signed out. Google receives technical device information and cookie identifiers. We send a fixed page name and address without query parameters or referrer details; we do not send conversation content, statements, profiles, account identifiers or private-page activity. Advertising features and enhanced measurement are disabled.

Analytics cookies and your browser’s saved privacy choice expire after six months. Google Analytics event-level data is retained for two months; aggregated reports may remain longer. Choose “Essential only” to decline, or use “Privacy choices” on this page or the public homepage to withdraw consent and remove this browser’s analytics cookies. Declining does not affect access to Talkven. We respect supported Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control signals. Google may process data outside the EEA; see Google’s privacy policy.

7. How long we keep it

We keep your account data while your account is open. Completed debates and the ratings on them stay on the public record because other people took part and rely on that history, even after one participant leaves. Payment metadata is kept as long as tax and accounting rules require. Push tokens drop off when they stop working.

8. Your rights

You can ask us to show you the data we hold, export it, correct it, or delete it. Edit your handle's public details in the app, or write to noreply@yuzi.nl for access, export, or deletion. Closing your account removes your private profile data; the public record of debates you completed with others may remain. Depending on where you live, you may also have the right to restrict or object to certain processing, and to complain to your data protection authority.

9. Security

We hash passwords, sign every voice and API token so it expires fast, hold the LiveKit and payment secrets only on our server, and never ship them in the apps. No system is perfectly secure, so we cannot promise absolute safety, but we work to protect what you trust us with.

10. Children

Talkven is not for anyone under 13, or under the higher minimum age your local law sets. We do not knowingly collect data from children below that age. If you believe a child has given us data, write to noreply@yuzi.nl and we will remove it.

11. International transfers

We and our processors may handle your data in countries other than where you live, including the United States. Where we move data across borders, we rely on the safeguards the law requires for that transfer.

12. Changes to this policy

We revise this policy as the Service grows. We update the date above and, for material changes, give notice in the app or by email. Using Talkven after a change means you accept the updated policy.

13. Contact

Privacy questions, requests, and complaints go to Talkven at noreply@yuzi.nl.