Last updated: 23 August 2026.
There is no signup on klaklak. We do not ask for an email address, a phone number or a password, and there is no profile. The only thing you provide is a nickname of up to eight characters, which you choose again each time you arrive.
Messages are stored so they stay visible in the room. A room holds the last fifty messages and clears itself after a day with nobody in it, after which those messages are gone. For safety and to deal with abuse we log the timestamp, IP address and chosen nickname alongside each message. Abuse reports are logged as well.
Private one-to-one messages are passed directly between the two browsers and are never written to our server, so we cannot read them and cannot recover them.
We use two analytics tools to see how many people visit and roughly where they come from: Clicky and Google Analytics. Between them they record the page visited, the referring page, the country, and the browser and device type. Google Analytics stores an identifier in your browser so it can tell a returning visit from a new one, and sends this data to Google, which may process it outside the European Union. We do not use any of it to build advertising profiles, we do not sell data, and there is no advertising on this site.
You can stop this entirely by turning on Do Not Track or a tracking blocker in your browser, or by using the browser's private mode.
Entering a room requires passing a Cloudflare Turnstile check, which is there to keep automated traffic out. Cloudflare also delivers the site and therefore processes the technical details of your connection.
We use this data solely to operate the service, to prevent spam and abuse, and, where legally required, to respond to requests from the authorities.
Messages disappear with the room, within a day of it going quiet. Server logs containing IP addresses are kept no longer than necessary for the purpose above.
You can request access to or deletion of your data at info@hertge.com.
In the EU the GDPR and possibly the Digital Services Act apply. This text describes what the service actually does, but it has not been reviewed by a lawyer.