Privacy Policy

Last updated October 4, 2026

1. Who we are

NightLane ("NightLane," "we," "us") is a group-chat app at nightlane.chat, made and run by Cole Eggly in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Questions about privacy go to support@nightlane.chat.

2. What we collect

When you sign up

• Email address, used to log in, confirm your account, and reset your password.
• Username, which other people see.
• Password. It goes to our login provider (Supabase), which stores it scrambled (hashed), not as readable text.
• A record that you agreed to these policies and confirmed you're 13 or older, with the date.
• If you make one, a recovery code so you can get back in without email.

Your profile and settings

• Profile picture, theme, bubble color, and other look-and-feel choices.
• Your birthday month and day (never the year), only if you add it. You can remove it any time.
• Your time zone (like "America/Los_Angeles"), read from your device so times, reminders, and daily features line up for you. This is not your location.
• When you were last active ("last seen" and online status).
• In-app progress: level, XP, unlocked secrets, Arcana, and similar fun stuff.
• Per-room notification choices, nicknames, and settings like disappearing messages.

What you create and share

• Messages and everything attached to them: photos, videos, voice messages, stickers, GIFs, links, replies, and mentions.
• Reactions, polls and votes, pinned messages, room tasks, game moves, and your media backlog (games, anime, TV, and movies), including any poster or cover pictures you add. When you share a backlog item, its picture is shared with it.
• Room names, room pictures, and room backgrounds.
• Habits and habit check-ins, if you use the habit tracker and Night Owl reminders.

Photos are re-saved on your device before they're uploaded, which strips hidden details like GPS location from them. (Small GIFs are sent as they are.) Videos may still contain details your camera saved.

Friends and safety

• Your friends list, friend requests, invite links, the rooms you're in, and which messages you've read.
• Friendship levels ("Social Links") that grow as you chat with people.
• People you've blocked.
• Reports. When you report a message, we store who reported it, which message, the reason you picked, and how it was handled.

Notifications

If you turn on notifications, your browser gives us a push "address" and security keys for your device. We use them only to send you NightLane notifications. Turning notifications off or logging out removes that device.

Technical info

Like any website, the companies that host NightLane automatically receive basic technical info when your device connects, such as your IP address, browser type, and the time of the request. They use it to deliver the app and keep it secure. We don't use it to track you.

Saved on your device

NightLane saves some things in your own browser so the app is fast and works offline: your settings, a copy of your recent chats and room list, and your login session. This stays on your device. Logging out ends your session; clearing your browser's site data (or uninstalling the app) removes the saved copies too. If you use a shared device, do both.

What we don't collect

We don't collect your exact location, your phone contacts, your real name (unless you choose to put it in your username), or payment info. We don't use advertising or analytics trackers.

3. How we use it

• To run NightLane: log you in, deliver messages, show your profile, sync across your devices, and send the notifications you asked for.
• To power features you use, like birthdays, reminders, games, link previews, and friend suggestions from rooms you share.
• To keep people safe: review reports, remove content that breaks the Terms, and stop spam and abuse.
• To help you when you contact support, like resetting a password.
• To fix bugs and improve the app.
• When the law requires it.

4. Who can see what

• People in a room can see the messages, photos, videos, and voice messages sent in that room while they're a member, plus the usernames and pictures of the other members.
• Other NightLane users can see your username, profile picture, and look. Friends and people you share a room with can see things like your online status, last seen time, level, and your birthday cake on your birthday.
• Password help: on the "Forgot password" screen, anyone who types your username can see a partly hidden hint of your email to help you remember which email you used.
• NightLane's admin can see reported messages and a few messages around them to decide what to do. Because messages aren't end-to-end encrypted, the admin can technically access stored data. We only look when we need to: to handle a report, protect someone's safety, help you when you ask, fix a technical problem, or follow the law.
• No one else, except the service providers below, and only so they can do their job for us.

Private chat files (photos, videos, voice messages) are only served to people who are logged in and in that chat. Profile and room pictures are public images so they can load quickly.

5. Services NightLane relies on

We share only what's needed with these companies so the app works. They have their own privacy policies.

• Supabase: our database, login system, file storage, and server functions. Almost everything in section 2 is stored here.
• GitHub Pages (GitHub, Inc.): hosts the NightLane app itself.
• jsDelivr and Google Fonts: deliver a code library and the app's fonts to your browser.
• Push services (from Google, Apple, Mozilla, or Microsoft, depending on your device): deliver notifications. Notification contents are encrypted so the push service can't read them.
• GIPHY: when you search for a GIF, your search words go to GIPHY.
• Kitsu, RAWG, and TVmaze: when you search for an anime, game, or TV show, your search words go to them.
• YouTube: if someone shares a YouTube link, the video preview loads from YouTube, which may set its own cookies when played.
• Link previews: when you post a link, our server visits that page to grab its title and picture. The site you linked sees a visit from our server, not from you.

We don't sell or rent your information, and we don't share it with advertisers. If the law requires us to share something (for example, a valid court order), we'll only share what's required. If we ever find content that sexually exploits a child, we report it to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) as the law requires.

6. How long we keep it

• We keep your account and content until you delete them or your account.
• Deleting a message removes it for everyone.
• Editing a message shows the new version to everyone, marked "edited." We keep a private copy of earlier versions (only the admin can see it) so reports can be reviewed fairly. It's deleted along with the message or your account.
• Disappearing messages are deleted automatically when their timer runs out.
• Deleting your account (Profile → Delete my account) permanently deletes your account, profile, and every message you've sent.
• Reports about serious harm may be kept longer when we need them to keep people safe or to follow the law.
• Our providers keep short-term backups, so deleted data can take a limited time to disappear from those backups.

7. Your choices and rights

• Change your picture, theme, and birthday, or remove your birthday, in your Profile.
• Turn notifications on or off for the whole app or for each room.
• Block people, leave rooms, and delete your own messages.
• Delete your account: open NightLane → tap your picture (Profile) → Delete my account → type DELETE. This permanently deletes your account, profile, and every message you've sent. Can't get into your account? Email support@nightlane.chat from your account's email and we'll delete it for you.
• Email support@nightlane.chat to ask for a copy of your data, to fix something that's wrong, or to have it deleted. We may need to confirm the request came from you. We aim to reply within 30 days.

Depending on where you live (for example California, other US states, the EU, or the UK), you may have extra legal rights over your personal information. We honor these requests for everyone, wherever you live. We don't sell or "share" personal information for targeted ads.

8. Age limit: 13+

NightLane is for people 13 and older. It isn't made for kids under 13, and we don't knowingly collect information from anyone under 13. If you're under the age where you can agree to this on your own where you live (for example, under 16 in some countries), you need a parent or guardian's permission.

If we learn that someone under 13 has an account, we'll delete it and its information. Parents or guardians who think their child under 13 signed up can email support@nightlane.chat and we'll take care of it.

9. Security

NightLane uses HTTPS for every connection, stores passwords hashed, and uses database rules so people can only read chats they belong to. Private chat files need a login to open. No app is 100% secure, though, so please use a password you don't use anywhere else, and tell us right away at support@nightlane.chat if you think something's wrong.

10. Where your data lives

NightLane is run from the United States. Your information may be stored and processed in the US and in other countries where our service providers operate.

11. Changes to this policy

If we change this policy, we'll update the date at the top. If the change is a big one, we'll also let you know in the app before it takes effect.

12. Contact

Cole Eggly, NightLane
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
support@nightlane.chat