1. Scope

This Privacy Policy explains how Johk (the “Service”) collects, uses and protects personal information when you use the Service.

2. Information We Collect

Information you provide, such as your account details and the content you submit.

Information generated through your use of the Service, including your interactions and preferences.

Limited technical information necessary for the Service to function properly.

3. How We Use Information

We use information to provide, maintain, personalize and improve the Service, to ensure its safety and security, to communicate with you, and to comply with applicable legal obligations.

We use your email address to send verification codes, security alerts and important notices about your account, such as a notice before an inactive username is reclaimed. We do not use it for advertising.

4. Sharing of Information

We do not sell your personal information.

Information may be shared with service providers acting on our behalf under appropriate confidentiality obligations, or where required by law or by a competent authority.

5. Analytics and Cookies

We use Google Analytics to understand how the Service is used, such as the number of visitors, active users and pages viewed. Google Analytics uses cookies and similar technologies and collects technical information such as device type, browser, approximate location and usage activity. It does not receive the content you post or your messages.

Google processes this information in accordance with its own privacy policy. We may also display advertising provided by third parties, which may use similar technologies.

6. Visibility and Your Controls

The visibility of your content depends on your account and privacy settings, which you may review and adjust at any time within the Service.

The profiles of public accounts (username, name, bio and picture) and their posts may appear in search engines such as Google and Bing. Private accounts, their posts, and private channels are not shown to search engines. Making your account private or deleting a post removes it from what search engines can see, although a search engine may take some time to update its results.

7. Channels

Public channels, including their name, description, picture, owner, number of members and messages, can be seen by anyone using the Service. Anything you post in a public channel can be seen by everyone.

When you join a public channel, people who follow you may see that you are a member, for example when the channel is suggested to them.

Private channels and their messages can be seen only by their members. The name, picture, description and number of members of a private channel can be found by searching for its owner's username, and joining requires the owner's approval; your request to join is visible to the owner.

To suggest channels to you, we use the topics you have chosen as interests, the people you follow, and the channels you have already been shown.

When you create a channel, the people who follow you may receive a notification about it. When someone mentions you in a channel you belong to, you receive a notification.

Channel owners and admins can see the members of their channel and can remove them. We keep a record of removals, so that a removed member cannot rejoin the same channel.

Johk may review the content of any channel, public or private, to investigate reports, enforce the Terms of Service and keep the Service safe.

Channel messages remain until they are deleted by their sender or the channel's owner, or the channel is closed, subject to the Data Retention section.

8. Data Security

We apply reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect your information. However, no method of transmission or storage is completely secure.

9. Data Retention

We retain information for as long as your account is active or as necessary to provide the Service and to meet legal and regulatory requirements. When you delete your account, its information is deleted within a reasonable period, except what we are required to keep by law.

10. Your Rights

Subject to applicable laws, you may access, update or delete your information, and you may delete your account at any time through the Service settings.

11. Minors

The Service is not directed to individuals under the age of 13. We may close any account found to be in breach of this requirement.

12. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Material changes will be communicated through the Service.

13. Contact

For inquiries regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact support@johk.online.