Effective date: 09 September 2025
Last edited: 14 September 2025
Who we are
We are ChatArchive.tv, an independent project that provides an online archive of publicly available Twitch streams and their associated chat messages. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Twitch.tv or any streamers. All data shown on this website is collected and displayed independently.
What data we process
- Twitch chat: We store only publicly available Twitch chat messages, including the username and the text of the message. No other personal data is collected or stored.
- Analytics: We use Ahrefs analytics. Your IP address may be transmitted to Ahrefs for traffic analysis. We do not store this data ourselves.
- Hosting: Our infrastructure is hosted on Supabase, Hetzner & OVH. For technical reasons, IP addresses are transmitted to those providers when you access our service. We do store basic logs containing ip address and page visited for 14 days.
- Anti-abuse protection: We use Fingerprint to prevent misuse of our service (e.g. scraping or bot abuse). Fingerprint generates a unique technical identifier from your browser and device information. We do not use this for marketing or advertising, only for security purposes.
We encourage visitors to use ad blockers if they prefer — ChatArchive.tv does not rely on ads, and your browsing experience will not be negatively affected by blocking trackers or ads.
Legal basis
We process publicly available Twitch chat data on the basis of our legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR) in providing an archive of public conversations. Fingerprint data is processed on the basis of our legitimate interest in protecting the service from misuse and ensuring availability for all users. We do not process data for advertising purposes.
Data retention
Twitch chat messages are stored without a time limit as part of the archive. No IP addresses or non-public personal data are stored.
Your rights
Under the GDPR you have the right to access, rectify, erase, restrict processing, and object to processing of your personal data. Since we only store public chat messages, you may request removal of your data (for example, if you are a streamer and wish your content to be removed) by contacting us.
Contact
If you have questions or requests regarding your data, please contact us:
- Email: privacy@chatarchive.tv
- Discord: Join our Discord
Changes to this policy
We may update this policy if our data practices change. Significant updates will be announced on this website.
You can see all versions of this policy at https://chatarchive.tv/archive.