Effective Date: September 20, 2026
Welcome to Riftok (“Riftok”, “we”, “us”, or “our”). Riftok is a social platform that allows users to create, upload, discover, share, and interact with short-form videos, Stories, Highlights, and other user-generated content, as well as participate in video battles, tournaments, voting, and community activities.
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, protect, and handle information when you use the Riftok mobile application and related services.
1. Information We Collect
Account Information
When you create or use a Riftok account, we may collect information such as:
- Name or username
- Email address or phone number, where provided
- Profile photo
- Date of birth or age information, where required
- Login and authentication information
- Other profile information that you choose to provide
User-Generated Content
When you use Riftok, you may voluntarily provide or upload:
- Videos and Reels
- Profile pictures
- Stories and Highlights
- Captions and descriptions
- Comments
- Likes and other interactions
- Battle submissions
- Tournament submissions
- Other content that you choose to publish
Content that you choose to make public may be visible to other Riftok users.
Social and Activity Information
We may collect information about your interactions within Riftok, including:
- Accounts you follow or unfollow
- Likes and comments
- Shares
- Battle participation
- Votes submitted in eligible battles
- Tournament participation
- Profile and content interactions
- Other activity necessary to operate social and competition features
Device and Technical Information
To provide, secure, and improve Riftok, we may collect limited technical information such as:
- Device type and model
- Operating system and version
- App version
- IP address
- Device identifiers or similar technical identifiers
- Network information
- Crash and diagnostic information
- Basic usage and performance information
2. How We Use Information
We may use collected information to:
- Create and manage your Riftok account
- Authenticate users
- Provide social networking features
- Display profiles and user-generated content
- Upload, process, store, and deliver videos and other content
- Provide Reels, Stories, and Highlights
- Enable 1v1 video battles
- Enable tournaments and leaderboards
- Process eligible community votes
- Provide likes, comments, follows, and sharing features
- Personalize and improve the user experience
- Maintain platform security
- Detect spam, abuse, fraud, and violations of our rules
- Moderate user-generated content
- Investigate reports and complaints
- Troubleshoot technical problems
- Communicate important service-related information
- Comply with applicable legal obligations
3. User-Generated Content
Riftok allows users to publish content that may be visible to other users.
You should only upload content that you have the right to share. Do not upload private, illegal, harmful, or otherwise inappropriate content.
Publicly shared content may be viewed, interacted with, commented on, voted on, or shared by other users depending on the features available in Riftok.
4. Camera, Microphone, Photos and Videos
Certain Riftok features may require access to device features such as:
- Camera
- Microphone
- Photos or videos
- Device storage or media selection
These permissions are requested only when necessary for features such as recording videos, creating content, uploading media, or participating in video-related activities.
You can manage applicable permissions through your Android device settings.
5. Voting, Battles and Tournaments
Riftok includes interactive competition features such as 1v1 video battles, community voting, tournaments, and leaderboards.
Information relating to participation, submissions, votes, rankings, and competition results may be processed and displayed as necessary to operate these features.
Voting results may be associated with your account or activity to help maintain platform integrity, prevent manipulation, and enforce competition rules.
6. Information Sharing
We do not sell your personal information.
We may share information when necessary with trusted service providers that help us operate Riftok, such as providers for:
- Cloud hosting and storage
- Video processing and delivery
- Authentication
- Security and fraud prevention
- Analytics and diagnostics
- Content moderation
- Other technical infrastructure required to provide Riftok
These service providers receive information only as reasonably necessary to provide their services.
We may also disclose information when required by law, legal process, or when reasonably necessary to protect the rights, safety, security, or property of Riftok, our users, or others.
7. Advertising and Analytics
Riftok may use third-party advertising or analytics services where applicable.
Such services may collect certain device, usage, or advertising-related information according to their own privacy policies and applicable requirements.
Where required, applicable consent or privacy controls will be provided.
8. Content Moderation and Safety
We may use automated systems and/or human review to detect, investigate, restrict, or remove content or activity that violates our policies or applicable laws.
We may process account and activity information for purposes such as:
- Preventing spam and abuse
- Detecting fraudulent activity
- Protecting users
- Enforcing community rules
- Investigating reports
- Maintaining the integrity of battles, voting, and tournaments
9. Data Security
We use reasonable technical and organizational measures designed to protect information against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, misuse, or destruction.
However, no online service or method of electronic transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
Users are responsible for maintaining the security of their account credentials.
10. Data Retention
We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary to provide Riftok, maintain account and platform functionality, provide safety and moderation, resolve disputes, prevent abuse, comply with legal obligations, and enforce applicable terms.
When information is no longer required, it may be deleted or securely disposed of in accordance with applicable requirements.
11. Account Deletion
You may request deletion of your Riftok account and associated personal information by contacting:
Email: support@riftok.app
Please send your request from the email address associated with your Riftok account, where possible.
Subject: Account Deletion Request
We may request reasonable information to verify account ownership before processing the request.
Some information may be retained where required or permitted by applicable law, for legitimate security purposes, fraud prevention, dispute resolution, or other lawful requirements.
12. Children’s Privacy
Riftok is not intended for children below the minimum age permitted under applicable law.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children in violation of applicable law.
If you believe that a child has provided personal information through Riftok in circumstances where it should not have been collected, please contact us at:
13. Third-Party Services
Riftok may use third-party services necessary to operate certain features of the application.
These services may include infrastructure, hosting, authentication, analytics, advertising, security, media processing, or other technical services.
Third-party providers may process information according to their own privacy policies and applicable laws.
14. Your Privacy Choices
Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have rights regarding your personal information, including:
- Requesting access to certain personal information
- Requesting correction of inaccurate information
- Requesting deletion of your account or personal information
- Raising questions or concerns about our handling of information
Requests can be submitted to:
You may also manage certain device permissions through your Android device settings.
15. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to Riftok, our services, or applicable legal requirements.
When changes are made, the updated Privacy Policy will be published through an appropriate Riftok website or privacy-policy page with a revised effective date.
16. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, your personal information, account deletion, or privacy-related concerns, please contact us:
Riftok Support
Email: support@riftok.app
By using Riftok, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy.