Privacy Policy

Last Updated: September 21, 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how AppLabsTabs ("we", "us", "our") collects, uses, shares and retains information when you use applabstabs.com or any application we publish (together, the "Services").

Some of our applications are social products that connect people through messaging or live video. Where that is the case, we process information that is personal and, in some cases, sensitive. This Policy sets out that processing in detail. Not every section applies to every application — each section says which features it covers. By using the Services, you confirm that you have read and understood this Policy.

Age Requirement

Our social applications are intended solely for adults. Where an application connects you with other people through messaging or live video, you must be 18 years of age or older to create an account or use it. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18.

At registration we ask for your date of birth, and we may ask you to complete a selfie-based age check as described below. If we determine, or reasonably believe, that an account belongs to a person under 18, we terminate that account and delete the associated personal information, other than the limited records described in "Deleting Your Account".

If you believe a person under 18 is using one of our applications, please report the account in the app, or contact us at hello@applabstabs.com so that we can review it.

Information We Collect

We collect the following categories of information. Which categories apply depends on the application you use and the features you choose to use within it.

Account information: your username, your email address or the account identifier returned by Apple or Google when you sign in with those services, your date of birth, your gender, and your country.
Profile content: photos you upload, your bio, your city if you choose to enter one, and anything else you add to your profile. In social applications your username, photos and bio are visible to other users.
Age verification data: a selfie captured in the app for age estimation, the estimated age range returned by our provider, and the outcome of the check.
Messages: the direct messages you send and receive, including text and any images shared in chat, together with metadata such as timestamps and the accounts involved.
Live video and voice data: where an application offers live calls, metadata about those calls such as start time, duration, and which accounts were connected.
Purchases and virtual items: your subscription status, your virtual currency balance, gifts you send and receive, and a record of your in-app purchases. Payments are processed by Apple; we never receive or store your payment card details.
Reports and moderation records: reports you submit, reports submitted about you, blocks, any content or evidence attached to a report, and the outcome of any review or enforcement action.
Device and technical information: device model, operating system version, app version, language, time zone, a device or installation identifier, your push notification token, IP address, crash logs and diagnostic data.
Approximate location: the country or region we derive from your IP address, and the city you enter on your profile if you choose to provide one.
Usage information: the features you use, session length and similar interaction data that we use to operate and improve our applications.

Age Assurance

Our social applications are restricted to adults, and we take active steps to keep minors off them. At registration, and at other times when we have reason to question the age of an account, we may ask you to take a selfie inside the app.

The selfie is sent to a third-party image analysis provider, which returns an estimated age range. We use that estimate, together with the date of birth you gave us and other signals, to decide whether the account may continue to be used. The estimate is probabilistic. It is not identity verification: we do not receive your name or an identity document through this process, and we do not use it to identify you anywhere else.

In connection with an age check we may process the selfie image you capture, the estimated age or age range returned by the provider, and whether the account passed, failed, or was referred for human review. Where a check fails, a member of our team may review the selfie and the profile before the account is restricted, and you may ask us to look at the decision again.

How We Use Information

We use the information we collect for the following purposes:

To create and operate your account, to authenticate you, and, in social applications, to connect you with other people.
To confirm that the users of our social applications are adults, including through the age checks described above, and to keep minors off those applications.
To operate purchases: to deliver subscriptions, to credit and debit virtual currency, and to deliver gifts.
To keep our applications safe: to review reports, to detect content and behaviour that breaches our Terms of Use, to apply warnings, restrictions, suspensions and bans, and to prevent banned accounts from being recreated.
To send you service and safety notifications, including push notifications, and to answer your support requests.
To diagnose crashes, measure feature usage, and improve our applications.
To comply with legal obligations, to respond to lawful requests, and to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.

Content Moderation

Where an application allows users to post or send content, we use a combination of automated systems and human review to moderate that content and the accounts behind it. Automated tools may analyse profile photos, profile text, reported messages and images, and signals about how an account behaves. What is reviewed automatically depends on the feature and may change over time as we develop our applications.

Automated signals may result in content being removed or an account being restricted, suspended or banned. A member of our team may review the same material, and we may keep a record of the review and its outcome.

Information Visible to Other Users

In our social applications the following is visible to people you match or chat with: your username, your photos and your bio; your gender and the country or city shown on your profile, if you provide them; gifts you send, which are shown to the recipient; and, during a call, your camera and microphone feed for the duration of that call.

Other users may photograph, screenshot or record what they see, using their device or other tools, whether or not we permit it. We cannot control what another person does with content you show or send them. Please do not share anything you are not willing to have seen outside the app.

Service Providers and Third-Party Processors

We share information with a limited number of service providers who process it on our behalf, under contract, and only for the purposes we specify. These currently include:

Apple: processes in-app purchases and subscriptions, delivers push notifications to your device, and, if you use Sign in with Apple, provides us with an account identifier and an email address unless you choose to hide it.
Google: provides sign-in if you use a Google account, and, through Google Gemini, automated analysis of text and images submitted for moderation, such as profile text, profile photos and reported content.
Anthropic: through its Claude models, provides automated analysis of text and images submitted for moderation and for age assessment.
Amazon Web Services: hosts our infrastructure and stores our data, and, through Amazon Rekognition, analyses images for age estimation and for the detection of nudity and other prohibited imagery.

These providers act on our instructions and are not permitted to use your information for their own purposes. We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising.

Disclosure of Information

We do not sell, rent or trade your personal information. Apart from the service providers listed above and the information you choose to make visible to other users, we disclose personal information only:

Where you ask us to, or where you otherwise consent.
To comply with applicable law, or with a subpoena, court order or other lawful request from a public authority.
Where we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to investigate or prevent fraud, abuse or a breach of our Terms of Use, or to protect the rights, property or safety of our users, of AppLabsTabs, or of the public — including to report suspected child sexual exploitation or a credible threat of serious harm to the appropriate authorities.
To our professional advisers, or in connection with a merger, acquisition, financing or sale of assets, in which case we will require the recipient to honour this Policy.

Data Retention

We keep personal information only for as long as we need it. In general:

Account and profile: kept while your account is active and deleted when your account is deleted, subject to the exceptions below.
Direct messages: kept while your account is active so that your conversations remain available to you, and deleted when your account is deleted.
Selfie images used for age checks: deleted once the check is complete. The resulting age estimate and outcome are kept with the account record.
Reports, moderation evidence and enforcement records: kept for 90 days after a review is closed, and for longer where the matter remains open, where an appeal is pending, or where we need the records to handle a legal claim or a request from law enforcement.
Purchase and transaction records: kept for as long as tax, accounting and audit obligations require.
Crash and diagnostic logs: kept on a rolling basis and then deleted or aggregated.
Ban records: kept as described in the next section.

Deleting Your Account

You can delete your account from inside the app, in the account settings screen. You do not need to contact support. If you cannot access the app, write to us at hello@applabstabs.com from the email address registered to the account and we will carry out the deletion for you.

Deleting your account removes your profile, your photos, your bio, your direct messages and your activity history. A small amount of information is deliberately kept after deletion:

Ban and safety records: an irreversible cryptographic hash of the sign-in identifier associated with the account, together with the reason for any enforcement action. A hash cannot be used to contact you or to rebuild your profile. We keep it so that an account banned for serious abuse cannot simply be created again.
Moderation evidence: content and records attached to an open or recently closed report, for the retention period set out above.
Transaction records: records of purchases, which we are required to keep for tax, accounting and audit purposes.
Aggregated data: statistics that no longer identify you.

Any unused virtual currency, remaining subscription time and gifts are forfeited on deletion and are not refunded. Deleting your account does not cancel an App Store subscription: you must cancel that separately in your Apple subscription settings.

Your Rights

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, including:

Right of Access: the right to request a copy of the personal information we hold about you.
Right to Rectification: the right to request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information.
Right to Erasure: the right to request deletion of your personal information.
Right to Object: the right to object to certain processing of your personal information.
Right to Portability: the right to receive your information in a portable format.
Right to Withdraw Consent: where we rely on your consent, the right to withdraw it at any time, without affecting processing that has already taken place.
Right to Non-Discrimination: the right not to receive a worse service because you exercised a privacy right.

The fastest way to delete your data is the in-app deletion described above. For any other request, contact us at hello@applabstabs.com. We will verify the request against your account before acting on it, and we will respond within the time required by applicable law.

Data Security

We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal information against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is completely secure. While we strive to protect your information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Access to moderation evidence and to age verification data is limited to staff who need it for the purpose for which it was collected.

International Data Transfers

Your information may be transferred to and processed in countries other than your country of residence. These countries may have different data protection laws. By using our Services, you consent to such transfers in accordance with this Policy.

Our service providers are located primarily in the United States. Where we transfer personal information out of the United Kingdom or the European Economic Area, we rely on the transfer mechanisms permitted under applicable law, including standard contractual clauses.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or applicable laws. We will notify you of any material changes by updating the "Last Updated" date at the top of this Policy or by other means as appropriate.

Contact Us

If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us:

AppLabsTabs
Email: hello@applabstabs.com