HaakemPrivacy Policy
Haakem is a messaging app where an AI referee follows your debates. This policy explains what we collect, why, who we share it with, and your rights. In short: Haakem is the third participant in every debate and reads every message. We do not sell your data, use it for advertising, or track you across other apps.
Data controller
Oğulcan Tanrıyar (Haakem). This section will be updated with company details once the company being founded for Haakem is registered. Contact: privacy@haakem.com
What we collect
| Data | Why |
|---|---|
| Phone number | Sign-in and account verification; letting people who know your number add you to a debate. Your number is never shown to other users. |
| Display name | To identify you in debates. You can change it in Profile. |
| Profile photo (optional) | So your contacts recognize you. Stored at a public but unguessable link; you can remove it in Profile. |
| Debate messages, images and topics | To provide messaging and let Haakem follow the debate and give a verdict. |
| Haakem's notes and verdicts, your "fair?" votes | To show verdicts and measure Haakem's quality. |
| Push token | To send new-message notifications. |
| Online status | To show your contacts you are online. You can turn it off in Profile; "last seen" is never stored or shown. |
| Technical logs (duration, cost and error type of Haakem calls) | To run the service and monitor cost. These logs contain no message content. |
What we do not collect: We do not access your address book; only the person you type or select is sent to our servers. We do not collect location, advertising IDs or analytics/tracking data. Voice dictation is not recorded (see below). Location and camera metadata (EXIF) is removed from images on your phone before upload.
How Haakem (the AI) processes your data
- Debate messages are sent to our AI provider Anthropic (USA) so Haakem can step in and give verdicts. Before sending, participant names are replaced with pseudonyms such as "Participant 1", and phone numbers and email addresses in messages are masked.
- Messages written in the free chat after Haakem's verdict are not sent to Haakem or the AI provider; only debate members see them.
- Images you send are sent to Anthropic once so Haakem can write a short description. Faces and text in images cannot be pseudonymized.
- Under its commercial API terms, Anthropic does not use this data to train its models.
- When checking a claim, Haakem may search the web, query API-Sports for sports results and the Central Bank of Turkey (TCMB EVDS) for economic data. No personal data is included in these queries (only a team name, date or indicator code).
- Haakem's verdicts are automatically generated opinions; they are not decisions with legal or similarly significant effects on you.
Voice dictation
The microphone button turns your speech into text. Audio is not recorded and is never sent to Haakem's servers. If your phone supports on-device Turkish speech recognition, transcription happens on the phone; otherwise the operating system's dictation service is used (Apple on iPhone, Google on Android), just like the keyboard microphone.
Who we share data with
| Service provider | Purpose | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Supabase | Database, file storage, server functions | European Union (Frankfurt) |
| Anthropic | Haakem's AI | USA |
| Expo, Apple, Google | Notification delivery and app updates. Notifications contain no message text, only who wrote and the debate topic. | USA |
| SMS verification provider | Sending your sign-in code (phone number and code only) | Depends on provider |
We do not share your data with anyone else, except with competent authorities where legally required. For international transfers and legal bases, see the KVKK Notice.
Security
Messages are sent over encrypted connections (TLS) and stored on encrypted disks. Because Haakem must be able to read messages, we do not use end-to-end encryption and make no such claim. Only members can see a debate; images are shown through time-limited links available only to debate members.
Reports and blocking
When you report a message or a person, your report and the last 30 messages of that debate are kept for review; the reported person is not told who reported them. People you block are not notified.
Retention
During the beta, debates, images and verdicts are kept until you delete your account. When you delete your account, your name and photo are deleted and your messages and images are replaced with "This message was deleted", preserving other members' history. Images Haakem finds inappropriate are deleted immediately. Shorter, automatic retention periods will be added to this policy before public launch.
Your rights and account deletion
You have the right to access your data, request correction or deletion, and object to processing (KVKK art. 11; GDPR where applicable). You can delete your account immediately in the app under Profile > Delete my account. For other requests, write to privacy@haakem.com from or with your registered phone number; we respond within 30 days.
Age
Haakem is for users aged 18 and over.
Changes
When we change this policy we update the date above and announce significant changes in the app. The Turkish version is the governing text.