Bazingga⚡ Privacy Policy

Effective date: August 21, 2026 · Applies to the Bazingga mobile app

Bazingga is built on a simple promise: Fast. Private. Expressive. We collect only what the app needs to work, we never show ads, and we never sell your data.

1. What we collect

• Account info: your email address (and phone number if you sign in by SMS), display name, username, optional status and profile photo.
• Your content: messages, photos, voice notes, and Moments you create. Moments expire automatically after 24 hours.
• App settings: preferences like notifications, wallpapers, and circles, stored on your device and in your account.

We do not collect your contacts list, precise location, or advertising identifiers.

2. How your data is used

• To deliver messages, calls, and Moments to the people you choose.
• To power optional AI features (see section 4).
• To keep the service safe (block and report tools).

3. Where your data lives

Bazingga runs on Supabase (database, authentication, and file storage). All traffic is encrypted in transit (HTTPS/TLS). Access to your data is protected by server-enforced row-level security rules: only chat members can read a chat, and only the audience you pick can see a Moment.

4. AI features

Smart Replies, chat summaries, translation, mood detection, and BazinggaBot are powered by the Google Gemini API. This section explains exactly what that means for your messages.

What gets sent. When you use one of these features, the relevant message text is sent to Google so it can generate the result. Nothing is sent unless you use an AI feature.

What Google does with it. Bazingga currently uses Google's free Gemini service. Under Google's terms for that service:

• Google uses the text you send, and the replies it generates, to improve and develop Google's products and AI models.
• Google's human reviewers may read, annotate and process that text. Google states it first disconnects the data from your account and from our API key.

We are telling you this plainly because Google's own terms ask developers not to send confidential or personal information to the free service. Please do not use AI features on messages you would not want to be reviewed or used for training.

Your control.

• AI features are optional. Smart Replies can be turned off in Profile → Bazingga AI.
• Summaries, translation and mood detection only run when you ask for them.
• BazinggaBot only sees the messages you send to it.
• Turning a feature off means no message text is sent for that feature.

Where AI is switched off completely. AI features are disabled for users in the United Kingdom and the EU/EEA. No message text from those regions is sent to Google.

If this changes. If we move to Google's paid Gemini service, Google will no longer use your messages to train its models and will act only as our data processor. We will update this section and tell you when that happens.

Your use of these features is also subject to Google's privacy policy and the Gemini API terms.

5. Sharing

We never sell your personal data. We share data only with the service providers above (Supabase, Google Gemini) strictly to run the app, or if required by law.

6. Safety: blocking & reporting

Blocking someone stops them from messaging you — enforced on our servers, not just hidden in your app. You can report a user or a specific message at any time; reports are reviewed by our safety team using a priority system, with child-safety reports handled first. Reporting someone never notifies them.

7. Retention & deletion

• Messages you delete "for everyone" are removed for all participants.
• Moments are deleted automatically after 24 hours.
• You can permanently delete your account and content any time in the app: Profile → Delete account. A web-based option is also available at bazingga.app/delete-account if you can't access the app. Deleting your account immediately erases your messages, Moments, profile photo, and status, and permanently revokes access to that account.
• One record is kept for 180 days after deletion, then automatically erased: the email address or phone number you registered with, the date you registered, and the date you deleted the account. Nothing else. Indian law (Information Technology Rules 2021, Rule 3(1)(h)) requires intermediaries to keep this registration record for 180 days after an account is cancelled. It is locked away from the app entirely, used only to answer a lawful legal request, and purged by an automatic hourly job once the 180 days are up.
• Safety reports naming an account may be retained for a legally-required period even after that account is deleted, as required by applicable child-safety and platform-safety law. If an account was reported within the previous 365 days, that account's Moments may also be preserved as evidence for the same reason — already invisible in the app, kept only for safety and legal purposes.

8. Age requirement

Bazingga is intended for users 13 and older (18 and older in India). We ask for your date of birth before you can create an account, and we don't let you create one if you're under the required age for your region. We don't collect or store your exact birthday — only whether you cleared the age check.

9. Changes

If this policy changes, we will update this page and note the new effective date above.

10. Contact

Questions or deletion requests: privacy@bazingga.app

Bazingga — Fast. Private. Expressive.