legal · updated 6 October 2026

Privacy Policy

1. Who is responsible

changed 5 October 2026

Tech 404 LLC, 22 Isahakyan St, Armavir 0901, Republic of Armenia, runs Bat and is responsible for your data. Contact: support@bat202.site

2. What we collect

changed 9 October 2026

  • Account: name, username, email, password (stored only as a secure hash), date of birth. If you sign in with Google, Apple, Yandex ID or Telegram, we get your name from that service and, from Google, Apple and Yandex ID, your e-mail address (Telegram does not share one: you can add an e-mail yourself); we never see your password for those services.
  • What you send to Bat: chat messages, files and pictures you upload, pictures and websites Bat makes for you, and your voice when you use the microphone.
  • Messages: conversations with other people, so they can be delivered and kept for you.
  • Notifications: if you allow push notifications in the app, a push token for your device, so we can tell you about new messages.
  • Technical data: IP address, device and browser type, and simple logs of errors and sign-ins, used for security.

3. How we use it

changed 5 October 2026

  • To run Bat: answer you, keep your history, deliver your messages, publish the websites you ask for.
  • To keep Bat safe: stop abuse, apply the age rules (the date of birth tells us whether you get a teen account or cannot use Bat), protect accounts.
  • To send account e-mails: confirming your e-mail and resetting your password. No marketing e-mails without your consent.

We do not use your chats, messages, files or voice to train or improve the AI models, and the AI companies named in section 4 are not allowed to either. We do not sell your data and we do not show ads.

4. Our AI and who else sees your data

changed 9 October 2026

For now Bat's AI runs at outside companies, not on our own servers. When our own AI servers are back, we will move the AI to them and update this section.

  • We ask first. Before your first request to Bat's AI, the app asks for your permission. If you say no, the AI stays off and Messages keep working.
  • Who gets what:
    • Cloudflare, Inc. (USA, data centres worldwide): your messages to Bat with the earlier part of the same chat, descriptions of pictures and websites, and pictures you give Bat as a design example. Cloudflare writes Bat's answers, makes pictures and websites, and checks answers for safety. If Groq is unavailable, Cloudflare also turns voice into text.
    • Groq, Inc. (USA, servers in the USA): your voice recordings, to turn them into text.
    • OpenAI (USA): each finished picture Bat makes, to check that it is safe before you see it.
  • What they don't get: your name, e-mail, password or date of birth. They only learn whether the account is a teen account, because Bat answers teens more carefully. Your chats with people in Messages are not sent to them.
  • No training: none of these companies may use your data to train AI. This is in their terms: Cloudflare's developer platform terms, Groq's Services Agreement (section 4.2) and OpenAI's API data rules.
  • How long they keep it: Cloudflare does not store your data after answering. At Groq we turned on zero data retention, so Groq keeps nothing. OpenAI keeps nothing from the picture check.
  • Why this is allowed: your explicit permission, and a data processing agreement with each company. Under it they may use the data only to provide their service to us.
  • Changes: this section always lists the companies we use. If we add or replace one, we update this list, and for an important change we ask for your permission again in the app.
  • Turning it off: Settings › AI › Use Bat's AI. The AI stops at once and Messages keep working. What was already sent is not kept by these companies beyond the times above.
  • Web search: when Bat searches the web for you, only the search words are sent to search engines, without your name or account.
  • Voice: your recording is turned into text by Groq (or Cloudflare as a backup). The text is saved in the chat like a typed message. Bat's spoken answers are read by your phone's or browser's own voice; some browser voices work online through the browser maker.
  • Service providers help us run Bat: our server in Armenia, the AI companies above, an e-mail delivery service, Google, Apple, Yandex (Yandex ID) and Telegram for sign-in if you choose one of them, and the Google and Apple notification services for push notifications. They may use your data only to provide that service to us.
  • We share data with authorities only when the law requires it.

5. Safety checks

changed 9 October 2026

  • What is checked: the text of messages between people is checked automatically on our server: the message itself, photo captions, file names and the first message of a request. The check looks for scams, threats, grooming and sexual content, so that dangerous messages can be stopped. It is stricter when a teen is in the chat. The photos, videos and files themselves are not checked.
  • No AI company sees them: no message between people is sent to an AI company for these checks.
  • Teen accounts: every photo and video a teen gets from another person is shown blurred until the teen taps it. No program decides which photos are sensitive: all of them are blurred. A teen gets links and files only from people they have accepted.
  • What we keep when a message is stopped: the time, the reason, who sent it, which chat, a short fingerprint of the text and its first 80 characters. Never the whole message. Messages that pass the check are not recorded. These records have no automatic deletion yet: they stay until we delete them, also after an account is deleted, because they help keep people safe. When we set a fixed time, we will update this section.
  • Reports: when you report a person or a message, the report holds the reason, your note and up to 20 messages of that chat (up to 1,000 characters each, and the names of attached files). We read what was reported to decide what to do. We review every report within 24 hours. A report you sent is removed when you delete your account.

6. How long we keep it

changed 5 October 2026

  • Your data stays while your account exists. A deleted chat is removed.
  • When you delete your account, your chats, files, pictures and websites are removed from Bat right away and from backups within 30 days. Messages you already sent can stay in the other person's copy of the chat.
  • Security logs are kept for up to 90 days.
  • The AI companies in section 4 keep your data only for the times given there.

7. Teens

changed 6 October 2026

Teen accounts (13 to 17) get stricter AI rules. We do not keep data of children under 13. If the date of birth shows that someone is under 13, Bat deletes the account at once: name, e-mail, chats and files. If the deletion cannot finish at once, it is finished within 24 hours. We keep only a coded fingerprint of the e-mail address, which cannot be turned back into the address, so that the same address cannot sign up again.

8. Your rights

changed 5 October 2026

You can see, change or delete your data in the app, and ask us for a copy of your data at support@bat202.site. You can withdraw your permission for the AI at any time in Settings › AI; this turns the AI off and does not affect Messages or what was done before. You can ask us any question about your data at the same address. Depending on where you live, you may also complain to your data protection authority.

9. Changes

If we change this policy in an important way, we tell you in the app first.