Privacy Policy


Hiyachat is an online free chat rooms site. Hiyachat.com does not monitor chat rooms neither we keep records & logs of the discussions happens in chat rooms mains or in private chats. Hiyachat.com uses third part chat applet, server & services in embeded format. Users enter at their own risk. Users hold all responsibility for what they experience in chat rooms.



By using our services you unconditionally agree to this privacy policy. If not, then kindly don’t use our services.

Collection of your information and its use: We do not collect any information of our users when they visit our website. There is no registration required before using free services.

The chat application we are providing here is not hosted on our servers. For detailed information on privacy policy and user agreement kindly visit pages of embeded service provider which is displayed while user connects to the IRC chat server.

T.O.S


By entering our chat rooms, you agree to be at least 18 years.

We do our best to protect your experience and make our chat rooms safe with the use of moderators. However, you must use this chat site at your own risk. It is impossible for us to prevent all misbehaviours from happening. You agree that Hiyachat.com is not responsible for the behaviors, actions or content displayed by other users of this website.

Our non-adult chat rooms allow no nudity of any form. Any sexual behaviors or displays of nudity will result in you getting banned from this chat site permanently.

Providing personal information such as phone numbers, credit card numbers or even home addresses is not permitted within any of our chat rooms. Giving others your personal details will get you banned.

Users over the age of 18 are allowed to use many of our chat rooms.

Keeping our chat rooms user friendly is important. Do not flood the chat rooms with messages, be disruptive or be a nuisance in the chat rooms. Doing so will get you banned.

Hacking or exploiting of our chat is a criminally punishable offense by law. If you attempt to hack the site or otherwise exploit our service we will go after you to the fullest extent allowed by law.

Using this chat site to advertise or promote your own personal business or any other third party business is not permitted. If we catch you advertising or promoting a business, another website or any other type of company we will ban you permanently.

Making threats on the lives of other users or even threatening to physically find and harm someone else will get you banned and the proper authorities will be warned.

Insulting another user, mocking them or any other form of virtual bullying will not be tolerated. If we catch you virtually bullying another user you will be banned.

Do not agree to the above rules, don't enter the chat room.

Do not discuss money or ways to transfer money to other users. Although there are business related categories including business opportunities; never discuss how to make money transfers on this chat site. You are not permitted to give out PayPal details, bank account details or any other money account related details.

Safety - General Safety Measures


Recommended General Safety measures and Parental Safety Controls Hiyachat™ users must be at least 18 years of age to use our site and is not to be used by users under 18 years of age for any reason whatsoever.


Here are a few safety tips that will help to prevent someone from compromising your profile. Please take a moment to review them. Thanks!.


Phishing.
Phishing is a fake clone site that may appear exactly as Hiyachat does, however the URL (http://www.Hiyachat.com) will not be our url but probably something similar meant to trick you into entering the site. Be sure when you go to to our site site that you are not redirected to another site, and that it is indeed Hiyachat.com , place extra caution when pressing links coming from emails as those might use a text link that looks like Hiyachat.com but redirect to another site.


Passwords.
For registered users choosing a strong password is very important. There are programs that can guess your password by trial and error (i.e. a1234) or some other commonly spoken word. Random numbers & letters are the best way to keep your passwords secure.


Private Messaging.
Be cautious of people sending you private messages you asking you to click a link, may ask you for money, or trying to get your personal information.
If your profile has been compromised or you know of someone who is spreading bad links, please contact us ASAP.


Meeting and Dating people
Do not meet anyone in person who you have met online from Hiyachat. You might think you've met someone who is completely trustworthy, but you can't be positive they are who they say they are. Always alert your parents before making decisions about meeting people from the internet and be sure they come with you and that it is in a public setting. Don't let yourself be lured by senseless promises such as a model agent wanting to make you a model or promises of money, gifts, and the like as a reward for photos or a meeting.
Use a nickname online that doesn't include your real name and isn't aimed to attract sexual attention


Parents and Guardians.
Hiyachat is limited to people older than 18 , however given the immense volume of visitors we’re unable to verify user’s age , making it parents responsibility to ensure that children below the minimum age will not use the site.
It is ultimately the responsibility of parents to make sure their kids do not have access to these types of websites which are un suitable for users under age . Please use one of the parental control products below to block adult websites and help keep your kids safe.
We’ve found the following article useful for finding parental control tools http://www.techradar.com/news/software/best-free-parental-control-software-9-programs-to-keep-your-kids-safe-1140315
We haven’t tested those software ourselves, this is only brought to you as a service and wer’e not providing any recommendations on a specific software.
Microsoft Windows
Built in Controls - Microsoft Windows has built in parental controls that are free to use. To access these controls go to the Start menu and choose "Control Panel" then "User Accounts and Safety". Next click "Set up parental controls for any user". You may find additional info here https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/12416/microsoft-account-family-settings.
Mac OS X
Built in Controls - The "Tiger" Mac OS has built in parental controls. To access these controls go to your Mac OS System Preferences and choose "Accounts". Next click an account and choose "Parental Controls". These instructions may change slightly with Mac OS updates.


Parental Tips.
Chat rooms are a place where people can anonymously discuss topics and chat with other members of a website. It is your responsibility as a parent to teach your kids to not lie about their age and gain access to the site through such means.
Because of the anonymity of the internet, it is important to learn about and familiarize yourself with it if you haven't already. As with any environment your children immerse themselves into, it is always a good idea to know as much as you can about it
As a parent or guardian, it is also your responsibility to talk to your children about the dangers of life and also the benefits and risks of the internet. Below are a few topics to discuss with them:
- Talk to your children about the dangers of giving out personal information online, even if they are only small things.
- Malicious links and computer viruses.
- Adults that are pretending to be under aged.
- Pedophiles and harmful individuals.
- Times when your children are online so you can monitor their activity.
- Some additional info :
- Place computers in a 'family room' rather than a bedroom. This helps with monitoring online activity and potential pedophiles will be put off by background activity if your teen uses messaging services for voice conversations.
Hiyachat encourages you to do an online research on internet safety for children. There are many websites that give great information on how to maintain safety and security for your children online.
We found the following article to be useful http://www.nationalcac.org/prevention/internet-safety-kids.html

Disclaimer


Hiyachat.com does not monitor chat rooms neither we keep records & logs of the discussions happens in chat rooms mains or in private chats. Hiyachat.com uses third part chat applet, server & services in embeded format. Users enter at their own risk. Users hold all responsibility for what they experience in chat rooms. For any query or complaints users may please contact the service provider and submit your request to them.


Hiyachat.com is not the only source for users to join the chat services. Users may join through different source such as Androirc, Android based Apps, Flash based Chat, Java based applets, KiwiIRC script, Mibbit, mIRC, xChat, IRCloud etc.


Hiyachat.com uses 3rd party chat interface via embeded/iframe on its website. Once a person enters a chat room, they are responsible for any and all interactions that take place. Hiyachat.com holds no responsibility for the actions, outcomes, or words, of those in chat rooms.


The IRC services of the network, including the chat rooms, are not for use by children. Such users will be removed if found, whenever possible. Children and minors are not allowed in chat rooms and Hiyachat.com holds no responsibility for children and minors who enter the chat rooms. Parents hold all responsibility for monitoring the activities of their children and minors in chat rooms. Hiyachat.com is not responsible for any and all actions or results of children and minors who enter chat rooms.


Hiyachat.com cannot guarantee that there will not be persons within chat rooms who use lewd, vulgar, insulting, profane, racist or sexual language.


Hiyachat.com is not responsible for any results coming from information received/shared or people met in chat rooms.


Hiyachat.com cannot guarantee the accuracy, authenticity, originality, of anything heard or shared or said within chat rooms. Hiyachat.com holds no responsibility for information received/shared and given within chat rooms. Hiyachat.com's chat rooms is not responsible for vulgar language heard/spoken within chat rooms.


Hiyachat.com is not responsible for attacks on another person's race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation or gender, anykind of harassment & neither is not responsible for those who try to promote products or businesses within chat rooms.


Those who accept any and all information received within chat rooms as fact holds responsibility for any and all outcomes of taking and acting on this information.

Cookies Policy


1.1. What are cookies?

As is common practice with almost all professional websites, this Service uses cookies, which are tiny files that are saved to your web browser, to improve your experience and to enable certain features, such as authentication. This page describes what information they gather, how we use them and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored, however this may downgrade or 'break' certain elements of the Service’s functionality.


Cookies may be either "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.


Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.



1.2. Cookies that we use

If you create an account with us then we will use cookies for the management of the signup process, for general administration and for preventing abuse and misuse of our Service.


We use cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember this fact. This prevents you from having to log in every single time you visit a new page. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.


When you submit data through a form, cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence. In order to provide you with a great experience, we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how the Service runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page that is affected by your preferences.


We run an affiliate programme and as a part of it affiliates advertise our Service. With the affiliate programme we use tracking cookies to track users who visit our site through one of our affiliate partner sites in order to credit them appropriately, and where applicable, allow our affiliate partners to provide you with a bonus for making a purchase.



1.3. Cookies used by our service providers

We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of our Service. Google Analytics, among other methods, also gathers information about Service use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our Service is used to create reports about the use of our Service and how we might improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit. Google's privacy policy is available at www.google.com/policies/privacy/.



1.4. Managing cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Disabling cookies will result in disabling most features of this Service. Therefore, it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.