What Happens to Your Video Call

The privacy policy answers this question the way privacy policies have to — completely, and in the language lawyers need. This post answers it the way you would ask a person. Nothing here contradicts that page; where the two differ in tone, the policy is the binding version.

A match is a room with two people in it

When you press start, GazeCam connects you to one other person who is available at that moment. That is the whole room. Nobody else is placed in it, there is no audience watching from the side, and there is no lobby where other users can see the conversation happening. When either of you leaves, the room is over — there is no way for someone to re-enter it afterwards.

This is a product decision, not a setting you have to find. There is no group mode to accidentally end up in.

What we do not do with your video

Your live conversations are not recorded for marketing or profiling. Your face is not turned into an advertising profile, your calls are not mined to guess what to sell you, and the video from a match is not repurposed as promotional material.

This is worth stating plainly because the opposite is common enough on the internet that people assume it. On GazeCam the conversation is the product — not the raw material for something else.

What is actually collected

Four things, and it is a short list on purpose:

• Account data — the email, username, and profile details you enter yourself.
• Usage data — which pages you open and which matches you start, so the service can run and be improved.
• Device and technical data — IP address, browser, device. This is the layer that catches abuse, ban evasion, and underage accounts.
• Reports — if you flag a conversation, the content of that report is kept so it can be reviewed.

Notice what is not on that list: your contacts, your phone number, your camera roll. GazeCam runs in a browser tab, so it never asks for the device-wide permissions a store-installed app would.

Who your data is shared with

It is not sold. It is shared with the service providers who make the platform run — hosting, infrastructure, analytics, payments — and with authorities where there is a valid legal requirement, such as a lawful request from law enforcement. That second category is narrow and it is not optional for any company operating a real service.

How long things are kept

Account data stays while your account does. Moderation and safety records can be kept longer, because a record that disappears the moment someone deletes their account is a free pass for repeat abuse — that is the trade-off, and it is deliberate.

When you delete your account, your personal data is removed or anonymised, except where law requires it to be retained.

What you can ask for

Depending on where you live, you can ask for a copy of your data, a correction to it, its deletion, or an export in a portable format. The route is the same for all of them: email [email protected]. You do not need to quote a regulation or use a particular form of words.

One rule that protects you more than any policy

Everything above is about what the platform does. The larger share of the risk in any random video chat sits somewhere else entirely: in what you hand over voluntarily, mid-conversation, to a stranger who asked nicely.

No privacy policy can un-send your phone number, your address, your workplace, or a photo. If a match steers towards any of those in the first few minutes, that is the moment to skip — and to report them, so the next person does not get the same approach. The safety guidelines cover the rest.

Short version: one match, two people, no audience. Video is not recorded for marketing or profiling. What is kept is what is needed to run the service and keep it safe — and you can ask for your copy of it, or its deletion, any time.