Last updated: September 30, 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how Tikki ("Tikki," "we," "us," or "our") collects, uses, stores, and shares information when you use our mobile applications, website, creator tools, live services, and related services (collectively, the "Service").
1. Information We Collect
Account and profile information. We collect information you provide when you create or manage an account, including your name, username, email address, phone number, date of birth, password in hashed form, profile photo, cover photo, bio, languages, interests, links, and account preferences.
Content and communications. We collect the videos, images, audio, captions, comments, stories, LIVE content, community content, support requests, private messages, and other material you choose to upload or send. Voice and video calls are transmitted through our communications provider in real time; Tikki does not record private calls. If LIVE replay recording becomes available, the host will be shown the applicable controls and disclosures.
Approximate location. When you open Nearby or explicitly share a location in a conversation, the app requests foreground location and converts it to a broad area before sending it to Tikki. Tikki does not request background location and does not intentionally store or display your exact position.
Usage, device, and diagnostics information. We collect interactions such as videos viewed, watch time, likes, follows, comments, saves, shares, searches, challenge activity, LIVE participation, notification actions, and feature usage. We also receive device and app information such as app version, operating system, device or installation identifiers, push tokens, IP address, timestamps, security events, and diagnostic logs.
Purchases and creator economy information. Apple or Google processes mobile purchases. Tikki and its entitlement provider receive purchase status, product identifiers, transaction references, subscription status, and refund or renewal events, but not your full payment-card credentials. We also keep wallet, gift, promotional reward, creator-diamond, withdrawal, and settlement records needed to operate and reconcile the Service.
Identity verification. If identity verification is required for creator eligibility, safety, or a future withdrawal, Tikki or an approved verification provider may collect identity-document information and verification results. Creator cash-out remains unavailable unless Tikki enables a compliant payout program and presents the required terms.
Information from sign-in and service providers. If you choose Apple, Google, Facebook, or another supported sign-in method, we receive the account identifier and profile information that provider makes available with your permission. Our infrastructure, messaging, video hosting, LIVE, push-notification, moderation, analytics, and purchase-entitlement providers process information needed to deliver their services.
2. How We Use Information
We use information to provide and secure accounts; upload, process, moderate, recommend, and deliver content; operate messaging, calls, LIVE, Nearby, challenges, rewards, and creator tools; personalize feeds and suggestions; process and reconcile purchases and gifts; prevent fraud, spam, abuse, and unsafe content; provide support; measure reliability and feature performance; send service and opted-in promotional communications; enforce our terms; and comply with legal obligations.
3. Automated Processing and Content Moderation
Uploaded media may be screened by automated and third-party moderation systems for nudity, sexual content, violence, and other potential Community Guidelines violations. Automated results can limit distribution or refer content for human review. Feed ranking uses signals such as interests, language choices, follows, viewing activity, content quality, safety status, and broad region. Tikki does not use personal information to train a general-purpose artificial-intelligence model.
4. How We Share Information
We share information with service providers that help operate Tikki, including cloud hosting and delivery, media processing, LIVE and calling infrastructure, push notifications, authentication, content moderation, customer support, analytics, and app-store purchase entitlement services. They may use information only to provide contracted services or as otherwise disclosed in their own terms when you choose their service.
Public profile information, public content, comments, LIVE participation, and other activity you choose to make public can be seen by other users. Private messages are available to their participants and may be accessed by authorized Tikki personnel only when necessary for safety, support, legal compliance, or enforcement.
We may disclose information when required by law or when reasonably necessary to protect users, Tikki, or the public. We do not sell personal information and do not track users across apps or websites owned by other companies for targeted advertising or advertising measurement.
5. Data Retention
We retain account information and content while your account is active and for the periods needed to provide the Service. Exact periods depend on the data and purpose. Deleted content may remain briefly in backups or safety systems. Transaction, gift, withdrawal, fraud-prevention, security, moderation, dispute, and legal records may be retained after account deletion where required or reasonably necessary. Push tokens and temporary Nearby visibility are removed or expire when no longer needed.
6. Your Choices and Rights
You can edit profile information, control audience and interaction settings, manage notification categories, revoke device permissions, delete individual content, and request account deletion in Tikki. The web Privacy Choices center at https://tikkiapp.net/privacy-choices explains these controls. Self-service account deletion is available at https://tikkiapp.net/delete-account.
Depending on where you live, you may also request access, correction, deletion, restriction, portability, or objection. Submit a Privacy support ticket from your signed-in account or contact
[email protected]. We may verify account ownership before fulfilling a request.
7. Children's Privacy
Tikki is not directed to children below the minimum age required in their country and uses age information to enforce access rules. If we learn that an underage user provided personal information, we will take appropriate steps to restrict the account and delete the information, subject to safety and legal requirements.
8. International Data Transfers
Tikki and its service providers may process information in countries other than yours. Where required, we use contractual or other recognized safeguards for international transfers.
9. Security
We use administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect information, including encrypted transport, restricted access, hashed passwords, protected credentials, audit logging, and controls for sensitive operations. No service can guarantee absolute security.
10. Changes to This Policy
We may update this policy as Tikki changes. We will update the date above and provide additional notice when required by law.
11. Contact
Privacy questions and requests can be sent to
[email protected] or submitted through https://tikkiapp.net/support.
