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Privacy & your data.

Privacy on DudesChat is engineering, not a promise buried in a policy. Here's how it works — and how to leave, taking your data with you.

In short

  • Your exact location is never shown to anyone — positions are rounded before anything is displayed.
  • You control your visibility: location sharing, distance, online status, and per-section profile toggles.
  • No ads, no data sale. Members fund the app — you're the customer, never the product.
  • Delete your account any time in the app: Menu → Settings → Account → Delete account.

Location: approximate by design

Discover needs to know roughly where you are — nothing more. So your position is rounded to a coarse grid before it's used anywhere: other Dudes see an approximate distance ("2 km away"), never a map pin, never coordinates. Your precise GPS position isn't exposed on any profile, any screen, or any API; the rounding happens server-side, by design.

You're in control on top of that. Under Menu → Settings → Location you can turn off location sharing entirely or hide the distance others see.

Your visibility controls

Settings · Location
Share my location
Show distance to others
Show online status
visibility Others see: "~2 km away" — never a map pin, never coordinates.
Your dials. The rounding underneath happens server-side either way.

What we store — and what we don't

We store what the app needs to run: your account and profile data, your photos, your messages, and your settings. We don't sell data, run ads, or track you across other apps and websites. Even this website's analytics are cookieless and non-identifying. The Privacy Policy is the complete, legally binding version — including your rights under Swiss and EU data-protection law (access, correction, export, erasure).

Verification data is handled separately and strictly — see Verification.

Deleting your account

You can delete your DudesChat account yourself, in the app, no questions asked:

That's it — you're signed out everywhere immediately and your profile disappears from the app. Deleted it by mistake? Contact us within 30 days and we can restore it; after that, the deletion is final. If you want a break, logging out is enough; nobody's deleted for being away.

Can't get into the app? You can request deletion from outside it: email support@dudes.chat from your account's email address, or use the contact form (topic: Privacy & data). We'll verify it's you and take care of it.

Data requests

Want a copy of your data, or have any other privacy request? Use the contact form — privacy requests go straight to the responsible person at Theme Park AG.

Last revised: 2026‑07‑02

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