This Privacy Policy sets out how we, TelePlus. “TelePlus”, use and protect your personal data that you provide to us, or that is otherwise obtained or generated by us, in connection with your use of our cloud-based messaging services (the “Services”). For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, ‘we’, ‘us’ and ‘our’ refers to TelePlus, and ‘you’ refers to you, the user of the Services.
TelePlus has two fundamental principles when it comes to collecting and processing private data:
TelePlus is a cloud service based on Telegram api. This Privacy Policy therefore should be read in conjunction with Telegram privacy which are available at https://telegram.org/privacy.
TelePlus is a cloud service based on Telegram api.
Telegram is a communication service. You provide your mobile number and basic account data (which may
include profile name, profile picture and about information) to create a Telegram account.
To make it easier for your contacts and other people to reach you and recognize who you are, the screen
name you choose, your profile pictures, and your username (should you choose to set one) on Telegram are
always public. We don't want to know your real name, gender, age or what you like.
We do not require your screen name to be your real name. Note that users who have you in their contacts
will see you by the name they saved and not by your screen name. This way your mother can have the
public name 'Johnny Depp' while appearing as 'Mom' to you and as 'Boss' to her underlings at work (or
the other way around, depending on how these relationships are structured).
You can add your birthday (with or without the year) to your Telegram profile if you wish to do so. You can granularly choose which users are able to see it on your profile (by default, your Contacts), and they will be shown a reminder on the day. We may use data about your age to determine your eligibility for accessing age-specific content.
When you enable 2-step-verification for your account or store documents using the Telegram Passport
feature, you can opt to set up a password recovery email. This address will only be used to send you a
password recovery code if you forget it. That's right: no marketing or “we miss you” bullshit.
From September 2022, we may ask some users to provide an email address to receive login codes via email
instead of SMS (with an option to use 'Sign in With Google' / 'Sign in with Apple'). In this case, we
will receive an email address which will be stored separately from the recovery email, and will only be
used to send you authentication codes when you log in to your account. The login email address will be
stored until it is changed or the account is deleted.
Telegram is a cloud service. Telegram store messages, photos, videos and documents from your
cloud
chats on our servers so that you can access your data from any of your devices anytime without having to
rely on third-party backups.
All data is stored heavily encrypted and the encryption keys in each case
are stored in several other data centers in different jurisdictions. This way local engineers or
physical intruders cannot get access to user data.
Secret chats use end-to-end encryption. This means that all data is encrypted with a key that only you and the recipient know. There is no way for us or anybody else without direct access to your device to learn what content is being sent in those messages. We do not store your secret chats on our servers. We also do not keep any logs for messages in secret chats, so after a short period of time we no longer know who or when you messaged via secret chats. For the same reasons secret chats are not available in the cloud — you can only access those messages from the device they were sent to or from.
When you send photos, videos or files via secret chats, before being uploaded, each item is encrypted with a separate key, not known to the server. This key and the file’s location are then encrypted again, this time with the secret chat’s key — and sent to your recipient. They can then download and decipher the file. This means that the file is technically on one of Telegram’s servers, but it looks like a piece of random indecipherable garbage to everyone except for you and the recipient. We don’t know what this random data stands for and we have no idea which particular chat it belongs to. We periodically purge this random data from our servers to save disk space.
In addition to private messages, Telegram also supports public channels and public groups.
All public chats are cloud chats. Like everything on Telegram, the data you post in public communities
is encrypted, both in storage and in transit — but everything you post in
public will be accessible to everyone.
Telegram uses phone numbers as unique identifiers so that it is easy for you to switch from
SMS and other messaging apps and retain your social graph. We ask your permission before syncing your
contacts.
Telegram store your up-to-date contacts in order to notify you as soon as one of your contacts signs up
for
Telegram and to properly display names in notifications. We only need the number and name (first and
last) for this to work and store no other data about your contacts.
Telegram automatic algorithms can also use anonymized sets of phone numbers to calculate the approximate
number of potential contacts an unregistered phone number may have on Telegram. When you open the
'Invite friends' interface, we display the resulting statistics next to your contacts to give you an
idea of who could benefit most from joining Telegram.
You can always stop syncing contacts or delete them from Telegram servers in Settings > Privacy &
Security > Data Settings.
If you share a location in a chat, this location data is treated like other messages in
cloud or secret chats respectively.
If you share your Live Location in any chat or turn on ’Make Myself Visible’ in People Nearby,
Telegram
will use your data to display your location to those users with whom you are sharing it, even when
the
app is closed – for as long as you keep these optional features activated.
The only cookies we use are those to operate and provide our Services on the web. We do not
use cookies for profiling or advertising. The cookies we use are small text files that allow us to
provide and customize our Services, and in doing so provide you with an enhanced user experience.
Your browser should allow you to control these cookies, including whether or not to accept them and how
to remove them. You may choose to block cookies with your web browser, however, if you do disable these
cookies you will not be able to log in to Telegram Web.
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.
If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please contact us at [email protected].