Your privacy promise

• You appear only as a code

  Volunteers, doctors, moderators and other students see a code and a shape, such as MK‑4821. They never see your name or your email address, unless you choose to share it, for example when you continue in person with a doctor.

• Your identity is kept sealed

  Your email address and the college code you used are stored separately from everything else. They are not shown anywhere in the app.

• It can be opened in only a few cases

  Your identity can be opened only for confirmed sexual harassment, threats or sharing of intimate images; for a legal order; or, as a last resort, when a psychiatrist judges that your life is in imminent danger and you have refused to share who you are, under a protocol approved by the college. Opening it needs two named people, a written reason and a permanent record. You are told afterwards.

• What is kept, and for how long

  Chats disappear from the app after 30 days. If you delete your account, your chats, posts and notifications are removed from Talk at once. Messages you delete for everyone, reported or removed content, registration details and system logs are kept sealed and encrypted for about one year to meet legal requirements, and are then destroyed. The record of each time an identity is opened is kept permanently.

• The college owns the data

  Talk is being built for Andhra Medical College students and opens after the college approves it. The college will own the data. Talk is run separately from any private company.

This is the plain-words promise. The college will publish the full privacy notice before Talk opens to students.