Privacy Policy

Deuka -Local Social App · Last updated: 23 August 2026 · Contact: [mamonineogsaikia@gmail.com]

1. Who we are

Android Assam ("we", "us") operates the Deuka -Local Social App mobile application and the service at deukachat.site. For data-protection purposes we are the data fiduciary / controller for the information described here. You can reach us at [mamonineogsaikia@gmail.com] .

2. Age requirement

Deuka -Local Social App is for adults aged 18 and over only. We ask for your date of birth once, when you first sign in, and verify it on our servers. If the date you give indicates you are under 18, your account is permanently blocked and you cannot use the service. We do not knowingly collect personal data from anyone under 18. If you believe a minor is using the service, contact us at [mamonineogsaikia@gmail.com] and we will act on it.

3. What we collect and why

Data	Why we collect it
Google account identifier, email address and name (via Google Sign-In)	To create and authenticate your account. We never receive your Google password.
Date of birth	To enforce the 18+ age requirement. It is recorded once and cannot be changed afterwards. It is never shown on your public profile.
Profile information you choose to provide: username, display name, bio, gender, country, state, city, occupation, website, interests, profile photo, cover photo, gallery photos	To build your profile and let other users find and recognise you. Everything in this row is optional except your username and display name.
Messages you send and receive, including private messages, group messages, replies, reactions and saved messages	To deliver the core chat service. Messages are stored on our servers so they can be delivered and shown in your history.
View-once photos	Delivered once and then destroyed. The image is stored outside our public web directory, never stored in our database, and is deleted from disk as soon as it is opened, or after five minutes if it is never opened. Only a small record that a photo was sent survives.
Push notification tokens and a device identifier	To deliver notifications through Firebase Cloud Messaging. Removed when you sign out of a device or delete your account.
IP address, last-active timestamp, and request logs	Security, abuse prevention and rate limiting. IP-based rate-limit records are deleted after two days.
Credits, rewarded-ad transactions and group access purchases	To operate the in-app credit system and prevent fraudulent or duplicated rewards.
Reports, blocks, mutes and moderation records	To keep the service safe and to act on reports of harmful behaviour.
Advertising identifier and ad interaction data (via Google AdMob)	To show advertising, including rewarded ads that grant credits. See section 6.

4. What we do not do

We do not sell your personal data.
We do not use your date of birth for advertising or share it with advertisers.
We do not read your private messages for advertising purposes.
We do not collect identity documents, selfies, biometrics, precise location, contacts, call logs or SMS.

5. Who we share data with

We share only what is necessary with the following service providers:

Google (Firebase Cloud Messaging, Crashlytics, Analytics, Sign-In) — authentication, notification delivery, crash diagnostics and usage analytics.
Google AdMob — advertising, including verifying that a rewarded ad was genuinely watched before credits are granted.
HOSTING PROVIDER — hosting of our servers and database.

We may also disclose information where we are legally required to, or where it is necessary to investigate abuse, fraud or a threat to someone's safety.

6. Advertising

We show ads through Google AdMob, which may use your device's advertising identifier. If you are in a region that requires it (such as the EEA or UK), we ask for your consent before personalised advertising is used, and you can change that choice at any time in the app. You can also reset or delete your advertising identifier in your Android settings. Chat screens are ad-free.

7. How long we keep data

Account and profile data — until you delete your account.
Messages — until deleted by you or your account is deleted.
View-once photos — minutes; deleted on open or after five minutes.
Notifications — read notifications after 30 days; all after 90 days.
Rate-limit records — 2 days. Audit logs — 180 days.
Moderation records (reports, restrictions, appeals) — retained as a safety record, because deleting them would let repeat behaviour go unnoticed.
Date of birth — erased when you delete your account. The one exception is an account blocked for being under 18: that block, and the account identifier it is attached to, are kept so the block cannot be removed by deleting and re-registering.

8. Your rights and choices

You can, at any time:

Access and correct your profile information in the app.
Delete your account from Settings → Delete account. This permanently removes your profile, photos, statuses and notifications, signs out every device, and removes your push tokens. Some records are retained where we are required to keep them, as described in section 7. You can also request deletion by emailing [mamonineogsaikia@gmail.com].
Control notifications per category in the app, and in Android settings.
Control your privacy — profile visibility, last-seen, read receipts, search visibility and who may message you.
Block or report any user.

Depending on where you live, you may also have rights to data portability, to object to certain processing, or to complain to a data-protection authority. Write to [mamonineogsaikia@gmail.com] and we will respond within [30] days.

9. Security

All traffic between the app and our servers uses HTTPS. Access tokens are short-lived and excluded from device backups. View-once photos are stored outside the public web directory and are not retrievable by URL. No system is perfectly secure, but we take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect your information.

10. International transfers

Our service providers, including Google, may process data on servers outside your country. Where required, we rely on appropriate safeguards for those transfers.

11. Changes to this policy

We will update this page if our practices change, and will change the "Last updated" date above. Significant changes will be notified in the app.

12. Contact

Android Assam
[mamonineogsaikia@gmail.com]