Privacy Explained
How the tech protects your conversations.
What Happens When You Connect
You open AnonymousChat and click "start chatting." Your browser requests a list of available peers from our signaling server. The server matches you with someone else. An encrypted WebRTC connection is established between you two.
At this point, video and audio flow peer-to-peer directly between you and the other person. Our servers are not in the loop anymore. They can't see, record, or access your conversation.
Peer-to-Peer (P2P)
Your video stream goes directly from your device to the other person's device. It never passes through our servers. This means we physically cannot record or monitor your video.
End-to-End Encryption (E2E)
Even if data passed through our servers, it would be encrypted with DTLS (Datagram Transport Layer Security). Only you and the other person have the decryption keys. We couldn't read it even if we wanted to.
What We Collect
We collect minimal server logs: IP address, browser type, which pages you visit. These logs are used only for abuse detection and basic operations. They're automatically deleted after 30 days.
We do NOT collect:
- Video or audio content
- Chat history
- Who you connected with
- Conversation metadata
- Tracking or analytics data
Encryption Keys
WebRTC establishes encryption keys between you and the other person automatically. These keys are random and unique to each connection. When the connection closes, the keys are discarded.
We never see these keys, and we don't have master encryption keys that would let us decrypt conversations. The encryption is built into the protocol itself.
No Accounts, No Profiles
Without user accounts, we can't link conversations to identities. There's no "your chat history" section because we don't build histories. Each connection is isolated and ephemeral.
Browser-Level Permissions
Your browser asks for camera and microphone permission, not us. This permission stays with your browser — we don't get a token that lets us access your camera independently. Your OS controls the hardware access.
What About My IP Address?
In a WebRTC peer-to-peer connection, your IP address may be visible to the other participant (this is standard WebRTC behavior). If you want to hide your IP, use a VPN service.
TL;DR
AnonymousChat uses peer-to-peer encrypted video to make sure we can't see, store, or access your conversations. No accounts, no profiles, no history. When you close the tab, there's no record you were here.