Privacy Policy

Content you answer on Whispi is public. The questions you ask, however, are anonymous towards other users: your identity is not shown to the profile owner or to any other user. For the security of the Service and legal obligations, a question's sender information is recorded for limited purposes; the details are set out in the sections below.

This page summarises in plain language how Whispi processes personal data. The legally binding and complete text is the KVKK Privacy Notice; for cookies the Cookie Policy applies, and for rules the Terms of Use. If there is any difference between this page and those texts, those texts prevail.

Whispi is operated by Hertz Teknoloji Medya Yayıncılık Pazarlama ve Ticaret A.Ş. (Istanbul). Your data is not sold to an advertising network, is not used for profiling and no marketing emails are sent to you.

• Profile (name, bio, avatar, social accounts)

  Everyone (including visitors who are not signed in and search engines)

  Sees

  Asker

  Sees

  Profile owner

  Sees

  Whispi team

  Sees

• Karma and streak

  Everyone (including visitors who are not signed in and search engines)

  If the owner has not hidden them

  Asker

  If the owner has not hidden them

  Profile owner

  Sees

  Whispi team

  Sees

• Unanswered question

  Everyone (including visitors who are not signed in and search engines)

  Does not see (except in Broadcast Mode)

  Asker

  Sees

  Profile owner

  Sees

  Whispi team

  Sees

• Answered question and answer

  Everyone (including visitors who are not signed in and search engines)

  Sees

  Asker

  Sees

  Profile owner

  Sees

  Whispi team

  Sees

• Follow-up message awaiting an answer

  Everyone (including visitors who are not signed in and search engines)

  Does not see

  Asker

  Sees

  Profile owner

  Sees

  Whispi team

  Sees

• Answered follow-up pair

  Everyone (including visitors who are not signed in and search engines)

  Sees

  Asker

  Sees

  Profile owner

  Sees

  Whispi team

  Sees

• Who the asker is

  Everyone (including visitors who are not signed in and search engines)

  Does not see

  Asker

  Themselves

  Profile owner

  Does not see

  Whispi team

  Sees

• The asker's IP address

  Everyone (including visitors who are not signed in and search engines)

  Does not see

  Asker

  Does not see

  Profile owner

  Does not see

  Whispi team

  Masked; access is logged

• Your email address

  Everyone (including visitors who are not signed in and search engines)

  Does not see

  Asker

  Does not see

  Profile owner

  Themselves

  Whispi team

  Masked; access is logged

• Reports

  Everyone (including visitors who are not signed in and search engines)

  Does not see

  Asker

  Those they made

  Profile owner

  Those they made

  Whispi team

  Sees

There is no private messaging on Whispi. As soon as a profile owner answers a question, the question, the answer and every follow-up pair answered afterwards are published. There is no private profile or "only members can ask" option; the features you can turn off are receiving questions, follow-up messages and appearing in external search engines.

Scope: The person you ask and other users cannot see who you are; they only see the avatar you chose. In notifications you appear as "Anonymous". The asker's identity is not disclosed to the profile owner, even upon request.

Limits: A question's sender information consists of the Whispi account it was sent from or, if it was sent without an account (as a guest), a random guest number assigned to your browser, and in both cases your IP address. Whispi does not ask for or store official identity information such as a national ID number. The sender information is recorded when you send a question and is kept in the system in order to prevent abuse and fulfil legal obligations. The IP address is deleted after 30 days; the link to the account or guest number stays until the question is deleted. The Whispi team can see from which account or guest number a question was sent when reviewing a report or when a competent authority requests it. Your email and IP address are also shown to the Whispi team masked by default; access to this information is logged in order to prevent abuse.

Consequences: Anonymity does not remove liability for posts containing insults or threats. Sender information is shared only upon a duly made request from a prosecutor or a court. In addition, you cannot withdraw, edit or delete a question you have sent; the right to delete it lies with the profile owner and Whispi.

Data collected: your email address and username (if you are a member), your profile information, the questions and answers you write, the images you upload (with location and device information removed), your IP address and browser information, your cookie preferences, the date you accepted the Terms of Use and your declaration that you have reached the age of 18, reports and form submissions. If you sign in with Google, your name, email and profile picture are received from Google.

Data not collected: date of birth, phone number, location, identity number, payment information. Your password is never stored in plain form anywhere.

Automated moderation: Everything you write and every image you upload goes through AI-based moderation before it is published. Sender information and your email are not sent to moderation; only the content is. Rejected content is shown to you with the reason and you can appeal; rejected text is kept for 1 year to track abuse.

Retention: If you delete your account, your data is deleted immediately and permanently; the exceptions and periods are set out in a table in section 7 of the Privacy Notice.

Whispi's servers are in Google Cloud, in Belgium. Apart from that, your data is only transferred to service providers working on Whispi's behalf; none of them may use your data for their own purposes:

• Cloudflare (traffic protection and bot verification): all traffic passes through Cloudflare.
• Amazon Web Services (content moderation and email delivery): content texts and images for moderation, your email address for notifications.
• Klipy (GIFs): when you open a page containing a GIF, your browser connects to Klipy and your IP address reaches Klipy.
• Hostinger (support mailbox): your form submissions and KVKK applications.
• Google Analytics: only if you allow it in the cookie notice, anonymous usage statistics.
• Browser push services: if you turn on notifications; the content is encrypted and the service cannot read it.

Some of these providers are located abroad; the safeguards under which data is transferred to them are set out in a table in section 6 of the Privacy Notice. We do not share data with anyone other than public authorities.

• Stop receiving questions

  Method

  Settings > Accept anonymous questions

• Turn off follow-up messages

  Method

  Settings > Allow follow-up messages, or end a single conversation

• Not appear on Google

  Method

  Settings > Show up in search engines (does not affect search within Whispi)

• Hide karma and streak

  Method

  Settings > Show my karma on my profile / Show my streak on my profile

• Automatic deletion of answers

  Method

  A period between 30 minutes and 24 hours, when answering or as the profile default; the timer restarts with each new follow-up pair

• Delete a question or answer

  Method

  From the menu on the question or answer; when an answer is deleted, the whole conversation is deleted

• Block someone

  Method

  From a question (blocks the asker and their IP for 30 days) or from their profile

• Turn off notification previews

  Method

  Settings > Notifications

• Turn off analytics cookies

  Method

  Settings > Questions & privacy > Cookies or Cookie Preferences at the bottom of the page

• Download your data

  Method

  Settings > Download your data; can be requested once every 24 hours and downloaded for 7 days

• Delete your account

  Method

  Settings > Delete account; immediate and permanent with email confirmation

• Exercise your KVKK rights

  Method

  kvkk@whispi.io; free reply within 30 days

What the download file does not include: IP addresses, session history, consent records, notifications and reports. For requests concerning these data, you may apply to kvkk@whispi.io.

Two important consequences of deleting your account: all questions asked to you and your answers are deleted too; the questions you asked others, however, remain anonymously on those profiles. Your username is not given to anyone else for 30 days.

Children: Whispi is closed to people under 18. If it is found that someone under 18 has opened an account, the account is closed; if you become aware of such a case, please report it to support@whispi.io.

Changes: We present changes that affect your rights or the processing of your data for your explicit acceptance at sign-in; we announce other significant changes with an in-app notification; for minor corrections only the date and version at the top are updated.

Contact: support@whispi.io for general questions, kvkk@whispi.io for requests about your personal data. The postal address and company details are in section 1 of the Privacy Notice.

This page is version 1.0 and is effective as of November 13, 2026.