Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

Welcome to DiscussApp, powered exclusively by Jutt Cyber Tech ("Company", "we", "us", or "our"). We are deeply committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. If you have any questions or concerns about this incredibly detailed privacy notice or our practices with regard to your personal information, please contact us via our secure channels.

When you visit our website `http://127.0.0.1:5100/web/` and use our services (the "Services"), you trust us with your personal information. We take your privacy more seriously than anything else. In this privacy notice, we seek to explain to you in the clearest way possible what information we collect, how we use it, and what rights you have in relation to it. We hope you take the time to read through it carefully, as it is very long, highly detailed, and extremely important.

2. Information We Collect

Personal Information You Disclose to Us
In Short: We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us.

We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you register on the Services, express an interest in obtaining information about us or our products and Services, when you participate in activities on the Services, or otherwise when you contact us. The personal information that we collect depends on the context of your interactions with us and the Services, the choices you make, and the products and features you use.

• Security Metadata: We collect IP addresses, connection timestamps, and session records strictly for the purpose of securing our infrastructure, preventing abuse, and thwarting DDoS attacks.
• Cryptographic Identifiers: Your public keys, pre-keys, and cryptographic fingerprints used to facilitate End-to-End Encryption via the Signal Protocol.
• Phone Numbers and User IDs: Required to establish a verified profile on the Erlang/Elixir network.
• Account Metadata: App version, operating system, and hardware specifications temporarily logged for diagnostics and performance metrics.
• Socket Connections: Session IDs (SIDs), WebSocket upgrades, and connection polling intervals.

3. Message Deletion & End-to-End Encryption (E2EE) Guarantee

Zero-Knowledge Architecture & Ephemeral Storage
In Short: We cannot read your messages, and we do not store them.

At Jutt Cyber Tech, we employ state-of-the-art Double Ratchet cryptography. Every message, image, file, and voice note you send through DiscussApp is encrypted on your local device before it ever touches our servers. Your decryption keys exclusively live on your client-side hardware; the server never records them. Because of this, no employee, engineer, or automated system at Jutt Cyber Tech has the mathematical capability to access your conversations.

Furthermore, we operate on a strict ephemeral delivery model. The exact millisecond a message is successfully delivered to the recipient's device, the encrypted payload is permanently deleted from our servers. We do not keep logs or backups of your message history.

4. How We Use Your Information

In Short: We process your information for purposes based on legitimate business interests, the fulfillment of our contract with you, compliance with our legal obligations, and/or your consent.

We use personal information collected via our Services for a variety of business purposes described below. We process your personal information for these purposes in reliance on our legitimate business interests, in order to enter into or perform a contract with you, with your consent, and/or for compliance with our legal obligations.

• To facilitate account creation and logon process. If you choose to link your account with us to a third-party account (such as your Google or Facebook account), we use the information you allowed us to collect from those third parties to facilitate account creation and logon process for the performance of the contract.
• To send administrative information to you. We may use your personal information to send you product, service and new feature information and/or information about changes to our terms, conditions, and policies.
• To fulfill and manage your orders. We may use your information to fulfill and manage your orders, payments, returns, and exchanges made through the Services.
• To enforce our terms, conditions and policies for business purposes, to comply with legal and regulatory requirements or in connection with our contract.
• To respond to legal requests and prevent harm. If we receive a subpoena or other legal request, we may need to inspect the data we hold to determine how to respond. (Note: As stated in Section 3, message contents are physically impossible for us to decrypt).

5. Will Your Information Be Shared With Anyone?

In Short: We only share information with your consent, to comply with laws, to provide you with services, to protect your rights, or to fulfill business obligations.

We strictly limit the sharing of your data. The only circumstances under which your metadata may be transmitted to third parties include:

• Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM): Used exclusively to wake up your mobile device when a new encrypted message arrives. Only anonymous push tokens are shared.
• Infrastructure Providers: Hosted server environments that run our Erlang/OTP nodes and Go Load Balancers.

6. Do We Use Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies?

In Short: We may use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect and store your information.

We may use cookies and similar tracking technologies (like web beacons and pixels) to access or store information. We use extremely minimal cookies on DiscussWeb strictly for the purpose of maintaining your Socket.IO session connection and preventing Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). We do not use tracking cookies for advertising purposes.

7. How Long Do We Keep Your Information?

In Short: We keep your information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this privacy notice unless otherwise required by law.

We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy notice, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting or other legal requirements). When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize such information, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.

8. How Do We Keep Your Information Safe?

In Short: We aim to protect your personal information through a system of organizational and technical security measures.

We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. Our servers operate in highly secure Erlang BEAM environments, sitting safely behind our custom-built Go Load Balancer proxy. However, despite our safeguards and efforts to secure your information, no electronic transmission over the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security, and improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your information.

9. What Are Your Privacy Rights?

In Short: You may review, change, or terminate your account at any time.

If you are a resident in the European Economic Area (EEA) or United Kingdom (UK) and you believe we are unlawfully processing your personal information, you also have the right to complain to your local data protection supervisory authority. You have the ultimate right to permanently delete your account, which will irrevocably shred your cryptographic identity from our Rust database backend.

10. Controls for Do-Not-Track Features

Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems and mobile applications include a Do-Not-Track ("DNT") feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. At this stage no uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online.

11. Updates to This Notice

In Short: Yes, we will update this notice as necessary to stay compliant with relevant laws.

We may update this privacy notice from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated "Revised" date and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. If we make material changes to this privacy notice, we may notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this privacy notice frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.

12. Contact Jutt Cyber Tech

If you have questions or comments about this notice, you may email our Data Protection Officer at [email protected] or by post to our primary engineering headquarters.