Privacy Policy
Last updated: June 2026
Banter Arena respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, how we protect it, and the choices you have when using Banter Arena.
By using Banter Arena, you agree to the collection and use of information as described in this Privacy Policy.
1. Information We Collect
Account and Profile Information
When you use Banter Arena, we may collect information needed to create and manage your account or profile, including:
- Username, handle, display name, bio, and profile photo.
- User ID or account identifier.
- Profile settings and preferences.
User Content and App Activity
Banter Arena is a social debate and battle app. We may collect content and activity you create or interact with, including:
- Battles, comments, replies, votes, follows, and creator interactions.
- Reports, moderation actions, blocked users, and safety-related activity.
- Support messages or feedback you send to us.
Device and Technical Information
We may collect technical information to operate, secure, and improve the app, including:
- Device type, operating system, app version, and diagnostic data.
- Crash logs, performance data, and error reports.
- Notification tokens used to deliver push notifications.
Subscription and Purchase Information
If Banter Arena offers premium features, we may process subscription and purchase status information to manage access. Payments are handled by Apple, Google, or other payment providers. We do not directly store your full payment card details.
2. How We Use Information
We use the information we collect to:
- Operate and provide Banter Arena’s core app features.
- Show battles, votes, comments, creator updates, and social activity.
- Deliver notifications you choose to receive.
- Manage premium access, subscriptions, and purchase status.
- Provide customer support and respond to requests.
- Protect the app from spam, abuse, fraud, and unsafe behavior.
- Improve app performance, reliability, design, and user experience.
- Comply with legal, platform, and safety requirements.
3. Notifications
Banter Arena may send push notifications for creator alerts, battle activity, comments, votes, follows, app updates, or other relevant app events. You can control notifications through the app settings or your device notification settings.
4. Moderation and Safety
To keep Banter Arena safe, we may review content, reports, comments, votes, account activity, and other signals related to abuse prevention, spam prevention, safety enforcement, or policy violations.
We may remove content, restrict features, suspend accounts, or take other action where we believe it is necessary to protect users, the app, or the community.
5. Third-Party Services
Banter Arena may use trusted third-party service providers to operate the app. These providers may process information on our behalf for hosting, analytics, authentication, notifications, subscriptions, crash reporting, payments, or app security.
These services may include, depending on the app version:
- Firebase services, such as authentication, database, cloud storage, analytics, crash reporting, or messaging.
- Apple services for App Store purchases, subscriptions, and platform features.
- Google services for Play Store purchases, Android platform features, analytics, notifications, or app infrastructure.
- Payment or subscription infrastructure used to confirm premium access.
These third-party services may collect and process data according to their own privacy policies and platform requirements.
6. Sharing of Information
We do not sell your personal information. We may share information only when necessary to:
- Provide and operate Banter Arena.
- Work with service providers that support the app.
- Process subscriptions, purchases, or premium access.
- Respond to support, safety, legal, or security requests.
- Protect users, prevent abuse, or enforce our Terms.
- Comply with applicable law or platform requirements.
7. Public Content
Some information you share in Banter Arena may be visible to other users, such as your username, handle, profile photo, battles, votes, comments, follows, and public activity. Please avoid posting personal or sensitive information that you do not want others to see.
8. Data Retention
We keep information for as long as needed to provide Banter Arena, maintain account features, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce our Terms, prevent abuse, and improve app security.
Some deleted information may remain for a limited time in backups, logs, or safety records where necessary for security, legal compliance, fraud prevention, or abuse prevention.
9. Account Deletion
You may request account deletion from inside the Banter Arena app where the feature is available. You may also contact us using the email below to request deletion.
When your account is deleted, we will delete or anonymize personal information associated with your account, unless we need to retain certain information for legitimate reasons such as security, fraud prevention, dispute resolution, legal compliance, or platform requirements.
10. Your Choices and Controls
You may be able to:
- Update your profile information inside the app.
- Turn creator notifications or other notifications on or off.
- Delete or edit certain content where the app allows it.
- Request account deletion.
- Contact us about privacy questions or data requests.
11. Children’s Privacy
Banter Arena is not intended for children under the minimum age required by applicable law or platform rules. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children who are not allowed to use the app.
If you believe a child has provided us personal information without proper permission, please contact us so we can review and take appropriate action.
12. Security
We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to help protect user information. However, no online service can guarantee complete security. You are responsible for keeping your account and device secure.
13. International Processing
Banter Arena and its service providers may process information in different countries. By using the app, you understand that your information may be processed outside your country of residence where data protection laws may differ.
14. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make important changes, we may notify users through the app, website, or other appropriate methods. The updated version will be posted on this page with a new “Last updated” date.
15. Contact Us
If you have questions, concerns, or requests about this Privacy Policy, contact us at: