The short version
- No phone number, email or sign-up. Your profile and your chats live on your phone.
- Private messages are sealed on your phone. Our server passes them on but can't read them.
- The online server keeps only what's needed to show you to people in your country, and deletes it 30 days after your phone last connects.
- Nobody is ever shown how far away you are.
- We don't sell data, and the app has no analytics or tracking tools.
Who we are
PeekaBluez ("we", "us") is an app made by an independent developer in Kuwait. This policy covers the PeekaBluez apps for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Android, the online service at api.peekabluez.com, and this website. Questions? Email [email protected].
What stays on your phone
Most of PeekaBluez never leaves your phone: your chats and their photos, videos and voice notes, your favourites and blocks, your settings, your birthday (if you add one, it's used only to check age-range rooms), and the keys your phone makes for you. Chats are kept out of phone backups. If you delete the app or use Delete everything in Settings, they're gone.
What's shared with phones near you
- Your profile card (nickname, photo, status, tags, languages, age range, and what you're listening to if you add it) is shared with nearby phones running PeekaBluez whose filters match yours. In Anonymous mode, only an anonymous card is shared, and only with other anonymous people. Invisible shares nothing.
- Messages to people nearby go over an encrypted Bluetooth link. When someone is out of range, a message can be carried by other phones as a sealed packet that only the person it's for can open.
- Rooms are passed between the phones in them. Room messages are never saved; they live in memory only.
What the online server receives
Online is on by default and you can switch it off in Settings. When it's on, your phone connects to our server, which receives:
| What | Why | How long |
|---|---|---|
| A random ID and a public key made by your phone | To recognise your phone and check it's really you | Until 30 days after your phone last connects |
| Your profile card, including your photo, and your mode (Visible or Anonymous) | To show you to people online in your country | Until 30 days after your phone last connects |
| Your filters (who you want to see, who can see you), gender, age range, languages and tags | To apply filters both ways | Until 30 days after your phone last connects |
| Your country, worked out from your connection | Online is only for people in the same country | Until 30 days after your phone last connects |
| Sealed messages for people who are offline | To deliver them when their phone comes online | Deleted as soon as they're delivered, and after 7 days at most |
| Room messages | To pass them to the room's members | Not stored. Large ones (photos, voice, video) are held for up to 10 minutes |
| Who started a chat with whom (never what was said) | Daily limits on new chats, against spam | Until either profile is deleted |
| The people you block | So they can't see or reach you online | Until you unblock them or your profile is deleted |
| Reports | To review them and keep PeekaBluez safe | Until reviewed; kept if they lead to a ban |
The server can't read private messages: they're sealed on your phone with a key that only the other person's phone has.
Your internet address and the country check
When your phone connects, the server uses your internet address to look up your country (using a database kept on our own server, so your address isn't sent anywhere) and to check whether it belongs to a VPN or a data centre. Your address isn't stored or logged.
If a VPN is on, online can ask your phone for its approximate location once, only when you allow it. Your phone works out the country itself and sends only the country's two-letter code. Your location never leaves your phone, and the country is remembered on your phone for 24 hours.
Photos and safety checks
The 18+ photo check runs entirely on your phone; nothing is sent anywhere to be checked. Before any photo, video, GIF, sticker or voice note is sent, the app removes hidden details such as location, camera, owner and date.
Reports and moderation
When you report someone, the report and its reason are sent to our support team. You can also choose to email support a copy of the chat (its messages and the photos they sent), which the app prepares for you; it's only sent if you send that email. Messages carry a private code that lets support confirm they're genuine, while the person you chat with can't use it as proof of anything. Confirmed rule breaks lead to warnings, limits on features for a time, or a ban on that phone.
Ads and points
PeekaBluez is free. If you choose to watch a short reward video for extra chat points, the video comes from Google AdMob. Google may use information from your device to show and measure ads. On iPhone and iPad, it uses your advertising identifier only if you allow tracking when asked. Where the law requires it, you'll be asked for consent first. See how Google uses information from apps that use its services.
Point packs are bought through Apple's App Store (or Google Play). Apple or Google handles the payment: we never see your card or account details. Your phone keeps each purchase's ID so it can't be counted twice; nothing about it is sent to us.
Service providers
- Hostinger hosts our server.
- Cloudflare runs our domain, this website's delivery, and forwards emails sent to [email protected].
- Let's Encrypt issues the server's security certificate. It receives no personal data.
- Apple and Google distribute the app. Translation uses Apple's translator on your phone.
- Google AdMob provides optional reward videos (see above).
- Country data comes from DB-IP, as a database on our own server; nothing is sent to them.
Our server and these providers may be outside your country. We only use what's described in this policy.
Your choices
- Switch Online off in Settings to use PeekaBluez only with people nearby.
- Choose Visible, Anonymous or Invisible at any time.
- Use filters for who you see and who can see you. They work both ways.
- Turn off seen ticks, and use App lock, Untrackable mode and panic wipe.
- Allow or deny Bluetooth, location, camera, microphone, photos and tracking in your phone's settings.
Delete your data
- Delete everything (in the app: Settings → Data & Storage) removes your chats, favourites, blocks and profile from your phone, deletes everything our server has about your phone at once, and people nearby and online stop seeing you right away.
- If you only want a break: switch Online off (people online stop seeing you), or choose Invisible (nobody nearby or online sees you). Nothing is deleted. Our server deletes an online profile automatically 30 days after the phone last connects.
- Deleted the app without Delete everything? Phones don't let an app do anything when it's deleted, so your online profile stays until the 30 days are up (it leaves people's lists after 3 days). Or email [email protected] and we'll delete it sooner.
Information about banned phones is kept so that bans keep working.
Adults only
PeekaBluez is only for people 18 and over. If we learn that someone under 18 is using it, we delete their online data and block that phone.
Security
Connections to our server are encrypted, and the app only accepts our server's own key. Private messages are sealed end to end. We keep as little data as we can, and delete it on schedule. No system is perfectly secure, so please tell us at once if you find a problem.
This website
peekabluez.com has no cookies, no analytics and no trackers. It's delivered through Cloudflare, which processes visitors' requests to keep the site fast and safe. Our server doesn't log visitors' addresses.
Changes and contact
If we change this policy, we'll update the date below, and tell you in the app if the change matters. Questions or requests: [email protected].
Last updated: 14 November 2026.