Privacy policy

Last updated 15 October 2026

In short: LiveCQ has no accounts, no ads and no tracking cookies. Your queue and settings stay in your browser. Chat and live typing pass through our realtime service to the people in your room and are not stored on our servers. If you make a room public, its name, host name and video title are listed on the home page while it is open.

Who runs LiveCQ

LiveCQ (livecq.vercel.app, the LiveCQ Android app and the LiveCQ browser add-ons) is a small independent project. For any privacy question or request, write to .

What stays on your device

These are kept in your browser's storage and never sent to us unless described below:

• Your video queue and the name you choose.
• Room settings, the rooms you have hidden from the "Live now" list, and whether you have seen the room tour.
• Room keys: if you host a room, a private key created in your browser proves you are the host. It never leaves your browser.
• Recent chat in a room you are in, kept only until you close the tab.

You can delete all of it by clearing this site's data in your browser settings.

What passes through our services

• Rooms (chat, live typing, playback). Your name, messages, what you are typing (when live typing is on), pause votes and playback position are sent through Supabase Realtime to the other people in the room. They are relayed, not saved in a database. Anyone in the room can see and copy them, and when the host keeps chat for newcomers, recent messages are passed on to people who join later.
• The LiveCQ Channel. Chat on the always-on channel (/channel/) works the same way: your name and messages go to everyone watching at that moment and are not stored.
• Public rooms. If a host turns on "Public room", the room code, host name, current video title and number of viewers are shown to everyone on the home page until the room closes or the host turns it off.
• Finding and playing videos. When you add a link, our server reads that page (or asks the Internet Archive or Suno about it) to find the video, and may relay the video stream so it can play in sync. The link is used for that request only and is not stored.
• Creating a room. Our server signs a certificate for your room's public key. Nothing else about you is involved.
• Reports. If you report a public room or a person, or a link that doesn't play (we then get the link and the problem shown), we receive the room code, the name you reported, the reason and note you gave, the room's title, and (for a person) their last few messages in the room. Reports are kept in our storage (Vercel) so we can review them, and also go to our server log and to Sentry. They are used only to deal with abuse and broken links; reviewed reports are deleted once 200 newer ones have been dealt with.
• Muting. When you mute someone, that is remembered in your browser only; nobody is told.
• Error reports. When something breaks in the page, a report goes to Sentry so we can fix it: the error, your browser and system type, and the page address cut down to the room code. We have set it not to collect IP addresses, cookies, what you type, or the links you add.

Visitor counts

To know how many people use LiveCQ we use Vercel Web Analytics. It counts page views (the page address without its query, so no room codes), the country, and the browser and device type. It uses no cookies and stores nothing on your device; a visitor is told apart only by a code made from the request that changes every day, so you can't be followed across days or other sites.

Server logs and abuse protection

Our host, Vercel, records basic request logs (time, address requested, IP address, browser) and keeps them for a short time. To stop abuse, our servers count requests per IP address for about a minute; these counts are held in memory and never stored.

Other sites

Videos from YouTube, Vimeo, the Internet Archive, Suno and other sites play from those sites, which may set their own cookies and collect data under their own policies. Fonts are loaded from Google Fonts, which receives your IP address when the page loads.

The browser add-on

The LiveCQ add-on notes the video streams your tabs load, so it can offer the right one when you click it. To spot streams whose address doesn't show what they are, it looks at the first few characters of small files a page loads, inside your browser, and keeps only the addresses of video playlists. That list stays in the add-on, is cleared when a tab moves to another page, and is only sent to LiveCQ when you choose to add a video, or when a pop-out window opened by your LiveCQ room starts its video: then that one video address goes to the room that opened it. When your LiveCQ room plays a video from a site that only gives it to a browser visiting it (TikTok, Instagram, X…), the add-on opens that page in a minimised window in your browser for a few seconds to get your own link to the video, then closes it; for sites LiveCQ doesn't know, it asks you first. Your cookies and that link stay in your browser. It does not read or keep your browsing history.

The Android app

The Android app opens this website, so this policy applies to it in the same way. Links you share to the app are added to your queue on your device.

What we don't do

• We don't sell or share personal data, show ads, or use tracking cookies.
• We don't ask for your email, phone number or real name.

Children

LiveCQ is not meant for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect anything from them.

Your rights

Because we keep almost nothing about you, most data can be removed by clearing this site's data in your browser. For anything else, including access or deletion requests under the GDPR or similar laws, write to and we will answer within 30 days.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new date.