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Privacy Policy

Version 1.1Effective: January 1, 2026Last updated: May 11, 2026

1. What We Collect

👤 Account Info

  • Email address
  • Username
  • Password (hashed)

🖼️ Profile Data

  • Avatar
  • Bio
  • Location (optional)

🔑 OAuth Tokens

  • API keys for connected platforms
  • Encrypted & secured

📊 Usage Data

  • Pages viewed
  • Streams created
  • Interactions

💳 Payment Data

  • Handled by PayPal/Paddle
  • We never see card numbers

🖥️ Device Data

  • IP address
  • Browser & OS
  • For analytics & security

🎥 Camera & Microphone

  • Only while you're live streaming or on a video call
  • Never recorded unless you choose to save it

📇 Contacts (opt-in, 18+ only)

  • Only if you actively tap 'Find friends from your contacts'
  • Your device computes a one-way hash of the phone numbers/emails you pick — never the name, the raw number, or the actual email address
  • Only the hashes are sent to our server for matching; your raw contacts are never uploaded or stored by us
  • Only available to adult (18+) accounts — never shown to teen accounts at all

📍 Nearby Friends (opt-in, 18+ only)

  • Off by default — only if you actively turn on 'Nearby Friends'
  • Your precise location (from your browser) is stored server-side only to calculate distance — it is never shown to any other user
  • Other users only ever see a rounded distance band (e.g. '~3 km away') — never your exact location or a map pin
  • Only other users who have ALSO opted in can appear as 'nearby' to you, and vice versa — never one-way tracking
  • Only your most recent location is kept — no location history is stored
  • Turning the toggle off deletes your stored location immediately and stops you being discoverable right away
  • Only available to adult (18+) accounts — never shown to teen accounts at all

2. How We Use It

  • ✓Provide and improve our services
  • ✓Process payments
  • ✓Send notifications (you can opt-out)
  • ✓Prevent fraud and abuse
  • ✓Analytics (anonymized)
  • ✓Comply with legal obligations
  • ✓Suggest potential friends from your contacts — only if you opt in (18+ only), using a one-way hash computed on your own device
  • ✓Show other opted-in adult users an approximate distance to you if you turn on 'Nearby Friends' (18+ only, off by default) — only a rounded distance band is ever shown, never your exact location

3. Sharing with Third Parties

🚫 We do NOT sell your personal data

We never sell your personal data. Ads shown on the site are served by Google AdSense and handled under Google's own policies — see the Cookies section below.

Payment processors (PayPal, Paddle, Stripe)

Only what's needed to process transactions

Google (AdSense advertising)

Google and its partners may use cookies and similar technologies to show ads, including ads based on your prior visits to this and other sites

Connected platforms (YouTube, Twitch, etc.)

Only with your explicit OAuth consent

Law enforcement

Only when legally required

Infrastructure providers (cloud servers)

Under strict data protection agreements

Call and video relay (Metered, Cloudflare)

When a direct connection between two people is not possible, call and video traffic is relayed through these servers. They can see your IP address and that a call is happening, not the content of your messages.

AI providers (OpenAI)

Text you choose to send to an AI tool, or to translate, is sent to the provider to produce the result.

Live-streaming infrastructure (Mux, LiveKit)

Video you broadcast passes through these services on its way to the platforms you chose.

4. Cookies

🔒 Essential

Required for the site to function — cannot be disabled

Required

📊 Analytics

Help us understand platform usage — optional

Optional

📣 Marketing

Optional cookies for relevant advertising

Optional

Advertising by Google

We use Google AdSense to show ads. Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this site and other sites on the internet. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to our sites and/or other sites on the Internet.

You can opt out of personalized advertising in Google Ads Settings or at aboutads.info. To learn how Google uses data from sites that use its services, see policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

5. Your Rights (GDPR / CCPA)

👁️ Access

View all data we have on you

🗑️ Deletion

Delete your account and all data

📤 Portability

Export your data (JSON)

✏️ Correction

Update incorrect information

🚫 Object

Opt out of certain processing

📧 Contact

privacy@liveforge.live · Response within 30 days

To exercise rights: Account → Settings → 'Download My Data' / 'Delete Account'

6. Data Retention

Your data is retained while your account is active and for 30 days after deletion (to allow recovery). Stream recordings are kept for 90 days unless saved to VOD. Certain laws may require longer retention of financial records. Nearby Friends location is different: only your latest reported location is ever kept (no history), and it is deleted immediately when you turn the feature off — not held for the general 30-day window.

7. International Transfers

Our servers are located in the US and EU. Data transfers to the EU comply with GDPR mechanisms (Standard Contractual Clauses). Israeli users: data handled per Israeli Privacy Protection Law.

8. Children's Privacy

⚠️ Not intended for children under 13

LiveForge is not intended for children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal data from under-13s; age is self-declared and enforced at first login — any account found to belong to someone under 13 is blocked and logged out immediately. Users aged 13–17 may use the service but are restricted from 18+ adult content and platform connections; we ask them to provide a parent/guardian email so we can request consent, and the account stays just as restricted whether or not that consent has been given. If you believe a child under 13 has provided data, contact us immediately.

9. Security

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OAuth tokens and stream keys are encrypted at rest (AES-256-GCM)

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HTTPS/TLS for all data in transit

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Automated integrity checks on payments, wallets, and subscriptions

10. Contact

For privacy questions: privacy@liveforge.live

For GDPR/CCPA requests: privacy@liveforge.live · Response within 30 days

LiveForge is operated by Ovadia Mordechai Michael, VAT-exempt sole proprietor (עוסק פטור) #302281779

HaShikma St. 5, Apt. 11, Yokneam Illit, Israel

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