# Couch Live Privacy Policy
*Last Updated: 10/12/2021*
## Summary:
In this Privacy Policy, we explain what data may be accessible to Couch Live or others when you use [Couch Live](https://couch.live).
## Details:
### Your presence and communications are sent to Couch Live and other Room participants.
- **Avatar data**: We receive and send to others in the Room the name and likeness of your Avatar, its position in the Room, and your interactions with objects in the Room.
- **Custom Avatars**: You may create a custom avatar. If you create an account, Couch Live will store your custom avatar, associated with your account.
- **Stock Avatars**: If you choose one of the regular avatars, you may login to store information about your avatar with Couch Live.
- **Voice data**: If your microphone is on, Couch Live receives and sends audio to other users in the Room. Couch Live does not record or store the audio. *Be aware that once you agree to let Couch Live use your microphone, it will stay on as long as you remain in a Couch Live Room, unless you turn it off.*
### Couch Live receives data you create and share with Couch Live.
- **Avatars You Create**: Couch Live receives 3D Avatar information, and the name of the Avatar in order to process and display the Avatar in a Room.
### Couch Live receives technical and interaction data to improve performance and stability.
- **Account data**: You do not need to create an account to use Couch Live. If you decide to create an account with your email address, we receive your email address to correspond with you. If you decide to use a third-party authentication provider to create your account (Facebook, Google, or Twitter), we receive the email address associated with that account.
- **Technical data**: We receive and store data about Rooms and Avatars; the type of device you use to interact with Couch Live, as well as its operating system, language, the name and version of browser; and other data to load and operate the Room.
- **Interaction data**: We receive data about your interactions with the Couch Live service itself such as the number of Room invites sent, the maximum number of users in a particular room at one same time, the start and end time of a user’s interaction with Couch Live, the amount of time a user interacts with Couch Live through Virtual Reality, the first time in a particular month or day that a user begins to use Couch Live. Couch Live uses third party services to store and analyze these operational messages. We also also use Google Analytics, which places a cookie on your device, to obtain metrics on how users engage with our websites. This helps us to improve site content.
- **Error Data**: In order to diagnose problems, Couch Live sends logs of error messages (which include the response time for requests, the page you were on when you encountered the error, your operating system, browser information, and may include your IP address).
- **Account Deletion**: Once you've created an account you can delete it and its associated data by clicking the "Delete Account" button on [https://couch.live/room?profile](https://couch.live/room?profile)