Are my messages and calls private?

Yes. Direct messages, group chats, and squad chats are private and are not scanned by automated moderation or read by moderators. Voice and video calls connect directly between devices (peer-to-peer). Only public surfaces, like stream and tournament chat, are moderated. Privacy controls for who can reach you live in Settings, then Privacy.

Privacy in your conversations is a core promise, so it is worth being precise about what that means and where the lines are.

Your private chats are not moderated

Direct messages, group chats, and squad chats are private spaces. They are not run through the automated content checks that public posts go through, and they are not read by moderators. Nobody is sitting in the middle of your private conversations. That is also why there is no "report this message for review" button inside a private chat, because there is no review of private chats.

Where messages live

• Your private message contents are delivered over a dedicated, secure connection rather than being stored alongside ordinary app data for moderators to query.
• They are kept private to you and the people in the chat.
• They are not used to build a public profile of you, and they are not surfaced anywhere public.

Calls

One-to-one voice and video calls connect directly between the two devices (peer-to-peer). The audio and video flow between you and the other person rather than being recorded and stored by VERGR.

What is public, and therefore moderated

To keep public spaces safe, the surfaces that everyone can see are moderated. These are not your private chats:

• Posts and other public content.
• Live-stream chat.
• Tournament spectator chat and stream tips.

Controlling who can reach you

Privacy is also about who is allowed to start a conversation in the first place. In Settings, then Privacy, you can limit who can message you, turn message requests on or off, control read receipts, and manage blocked users.

Honesty matters here: private chats are kept off public and moderated systems, but you should not treat them as a place for secrets that would be catastrophic if a device were lost or compromised. Standard account security still applies.