Privacy policy

Who we are

Chatlista (chatlista.com) is an index of chat communities: chat websites, Discord servers, Telegram groups and IRC channels. Chatlista is responsible for the personal data described on this page. You can reach us about privacy at [email protected].

Chatlista is not a chat service. When you follow a link to a listed site, that site handles your data under its own privacy policy.

Browsing the site

You do not need an account to use Chatlista. Pages are delivered through Cloudflare and our own server. Like any website, these systems process technical data such as your IP address, browser type and the address you requested in order to deliver pages, keep the service running and protect it against abuse.

Public pages do not set cookies, and we do not use advertising or tracking scripts. Our fonts are served from our own domain.

If you rate a community, your browser keeps the number of stars you gave in its local storage so the page can show it again. It stays on your device; you can remove it by clearing your browser data.

To keep the site fast, your browser sends anonymous performance measurements (Core Web Vitals): the name of the measurement, the type of page and the value. They contain no address, identifier or personal data.

Ratings, reviews, reports and submissions

When you rate or review a community, report a listing or claim it, we do not store your raw IP address with your contribution. Instead we store a one-way, salted hash of your IP address and browser. It lets us recognise a repeat vote or review from the same person and limit abuse, but it cannot be turned back into your IP address.

Ratings: the number of stars and the hashed identifier. A new rating from you replaces your earlier one.

Reviews: the stars, your text, its language, the display name you choose (optional) and the hashed identifier. Reviews are checked by an editor before they appear, and published reviews are visible to everyone.

Reports: the reason, your description, your email address if you give one, and the hashed identifier. Reports are only seen by our editors.

Community submissions: the details of the community you suggest and your email address if you give one.

Ownership claims: your name, email address, role and the proof you send, so that we can verify that you run the community.

Spam protection (Google reCAPTCHA)

When you send a rating, review, report, claim or submission, we use Google reCAPTCHA v3 to check that the request comes from a person and not a bot. The reCAPTCHA script is only loaded when you send a form. It collects information about your device and browser and sends it to Google, which returns a score to us.

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy (https://policies.google.com/privacy) and Terms of Service (https://policies.google.com/terms) apply.

Why we use this data

We use this data to run the index, show ratings and reviews, review reports and submissions, verify ownership claims, and prevent spam and abuse. We rely on our legitimate interest in operating a reliable, abuse-free index. Where you give us your email address, we only use it to reply to your report, submission or claim.

We do not sell personal data, and we do not use it for advertising or profiling.

Who else processes it

Cloudflare delivers the website and protects it against attacks. Our API and database run on a server we rent from a hosting provider. Google processes reCAPTCHA checks as described above. These providers process data on our behalf or under their own terms for the services they provide. Some of them may process data outside your country.

How long we keep it

Ratings and reviews are kept while the listing is in the index, or until you ask us to delete them. Reports, submissions and claims are kept as a record of our editorial decisions. Database backups are kept for 14 days, so deleted data disappears from backups within that time.

Your rights

You can ask us to access, correct or delete your personal data, or object to how we use it, by writing to [email protected]. Because Chatlista has no accounts, please tell us which listing, roughly when, and what you sent (for example the text of your review or the email address you used) so that we can find it.

If you think we have handled your data wrongly, you also have the right to complain to your data protection authority.

Changes

If we change how we handle personal data, we will update this page and the date at the top.