The short version: we do not know who you are, and we do not keep what you write. Every post is permanently deleted 24 hours after it is created.
NEXT24 has no sign-up. You never give us an email address, phone number or password.
You may choose a username, and you do not have to. It is a label this device writes onto the posts it makes from then on — nothing is reserved, nothing is verified, and two people can choose the same one. Leave it alone and your posts carry a rotating “Anonymous #00000” instead. Changing it does not rename anything you have already published; those posts keep the name they were written under.
To store your posts and enforce who is allowed to delete them, the app creates an anonymous account the first time you open it. That account is a random identifier generated on our servers. It is not derived from your device hardware, your phone number, or anything else about you, and it is not shared with anyone. It exists so that your posts can be yours, and so that nobody else can delete or edit them.
Because an account exists, you can delete it. See deleting your account.
A post may carry one image, and only if you choose to attach one. Text-only posts remain the norm and nothing changes for them.
Posts and comments are public to everyone using the app for as long as they live, which is never more than 24 hours. Do not post anything you would not want read by strangers. Posts by official NEXT24 accounts are labelled as such and may last longer; this is stated on the post itself.
A post can link a video hosted on YouTube or Instagram. NEXT24 never downloads, copies, re-uploads or stores that video, and never plays it from our own servers. We store the link, the platform's own video id, and nothing else. Both are played by the platform's own embedded player, inside the app.
Videos start playing when you scroll to them. When a linked video is substantially on screen it begins playing on its own, always muted. That means your device connects to YouTube or Instagram at the moment the video scrolls into view — not only when you tap it. From that point they receive what a visit to their own site would give them, including your IP address, and their privacy policies apply rather than ours: Google and Instagram.
Only one video is ever playing, and only while it is on screen: scrolling away stops it. Nothing is requested for a video you never scroll to, and nothing at all — not even a thumbnail — is requested for a post marked 18+ until you choose to reveal it.
Sound stays off until you ask for it, by tapping a video or the sound switch beneath it. That choice then applies to the videos you scroll to afterwards, for as long as the app stays open. It is not remembered between sessions and is not stored anywhere.
YouTube videos are loaded through youtube-nocookie.com, Google's player without its tracking cookie. NEXT24 does not add anything to, remove anything from, or run any code inside either platform's player, and shows no advertising of its own on top of it. Linked videos expire with the post that carries them, after 24 hours, exactly like every other post.
Content is stored with Supabase, which hosts it on infrastructure operated by Amazon Web Services. It is transmitted over HTTPS in every case.
Posts, their comments, and every engagement record attached to them — including any poll on the post and every vote cast in it — are permanently deleted 24 hours after the post is created. This is automatic and unconditional, and it is enforced by the database rather than by a scheduled clean-up that could be skipped. Deleted means removed, not hidden: there is no archive to restore from.
We record aggregate counts of activity — how many posts were written, how many were read. There is no third-party analytics SDK in the app, and no per-person behavioural profile is built or retained.
NEXT24 shows two kinds of advertising.
Our own ads are first-party and contextual. They are sold and served by us, chosen by where they sit in the feed rather than by anything inferred about you, and advertisers receive aggregate impression and click counts only.
Google AdMob fills feed slots we have not sold ourselves. AdMob is a third-party advertising SDK operated by Google, and it collects data from your device to serve and measure ads — including your device’s advertising identifier, IP address and general device information. That data is handled under Google’s privacy policy, not this one.
Where the ads are. Banner and native advertisements appear between posts, between LIVE sessions and inside a LIVE chat. A full-screen advertisement can appear after you publish a post, and one can appear when you leave a LIVE chat. All of them come from AdMob and everything in this section applies to each of them. None is required in order to post — if an advertisement is ready when you publish it is shown, and if it is not the post goes up regardless — and there is a minimum interval between any two full-screen advertisements.
Advertising partners. AdMob may offer an ad request on to other advertising networks so that more than one buyer can compete for the slot — a process Google calls mediation or bidding. NEXT24 currently has Meta Audience Network enabled as one of those partners. NEXT24 does not send anything to Meta itself: the request goes to AdMob, and AdMob decides whether to offer it onward. Anything a partner receives that way is handled under that partner’s own privacy policy — for Meta Audience Network, the Meta Privacy Policy. Partners can change over time; this section names the ones enabled today.
Personalised ads. Where applicable law permits it, and where you have given any consent that law requires, ads may be personalised. A personalised ad can be chosen using information that Google and its advertising partners already hold about you, which may include activity in other apps and on other websites. NEXT24 does not build that profile, does not receive it, and cannot see it — but we no longer claim that no such profile is used, because when you have consented, it may be.
Non-personalised ads. Where personalisation is not permitted, or where the required consent has not been given, ad requests are marked non-personalised: they are chosen from context and coarse signals rather than from a profile of your behaviour. This is also what happens if the consent check cannot be completed for any reason, such as being offline.
Your consent choices. Where the law requires consent — in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and certain US states — NEXT24 uses Google’s User Messaging Platform (UMP) to present the choice and record your answer before any ad is requested. If consent is required and has not been given, no ad request is made at all. Your answer is stored on your device by the Google Mobile Ads SDK, not by us.
Advertising identifiers. Advertising providers may process your device’s advertising identifier and similar technical information, to the extent your device settings, your consent choices and applicable law allow. You can reset or delete that identifier at any time in Android Settings → Privacy → Ads, and you can opt out of ad personalisation there. Those settings sit outside this app and apply to every app on your device.
Third-party processing. Google and any advertising partner it works with process the information they receive as independent controllers, under their own privacy policies rather than this one. We have no access to that data and cannot delete it on your behalf; deleting your NEXT24 account removes what we hold and nothing they hold.
Notifications concern only posts you wrote: when somebody likes one, and when somebody comments on one. There is also an optional morning update. Any of it can be turned off in Settings, and Android’s own notification settings override ours.
A like or comment notification is delivered through Google’s Firebase Cloud Messaging, using Expo’s push service. To reach your device it carries the notification’s text and a reference to the post — never your identity, and nothing identifying whoever did the liking or commenting.
The morning update is scheduled by your phone for itself. It involves no server and no network, and it continues to work with notifications from us switched off entirely.
A notification is never sent for something you did to your own post.
A LIVE session is a room with a chat, run by an admin. Messages you send there are stored while the room is open and deleted the instant it closes — deleted, not hidden. Nothing is archived and there is no transcript. The poll results outlive the room by 24 hours so that people can see how it finished, and then the session, its poll and its votes are removed together.
Messages are checked on our servers before they are accepted, in the same way posts and comments are. Phone numbers and email addresses are refused, including forms written to slip past a simple check, because a live chat is a place where strangers can see what you type.
A host may place a live-score page or another web page above the chat. That page is loaded from whoever runs it, exactly as a YouTube video is: your device connects to that site, it sees what an ordinary visit would show it including your IP address, and its privacy policy applies rather than this one. We add nothing to it and run no code inside it, and it is confined to the address the host set, so nothing on that page can navigate the app elsewhere.
Where a host attaches a cricket match, the score is fetched by our server rather than by your phone. Nothing about you is sent to the scores provider: it is asked about a match, and the answer is a line of text that everybody in the room sees.
Sharing a post produces a link to our public share page and nothing else — no identifier for you, no reference to the device you shared from, and nothing about who wrote the post beyond the name already shown on it.
Opening that link on a phone with NEXT24 installed goes straight to the app. Without the app it opens a page carrying the NEXT24 name that offers the Play Store, and that page never receives the post: it reads the identifier out of the address you opened and does nothing else with it. The post is fetched by the app, from our servers, under the same rules as any other post — which is why a shared link to an expired post says it is no longer available rather than showing it.
The preview a messaging app generates for that link is deliberately generic. It names NEXT24 and says posts disappear after 24 hours, and it never quotes the post: a preview cached by a messaging service does not expire when the post does.
You can report any post or comment, and block any author. Reports are reviewed by our moderators and are not attributed back to the reporter. Blocking hides that author’s content from you everywhere in the app; because posting is anonymous, you are not told who they are and they are not told they have been blocked.
Reported content is retained for as long as it takes to review it, and never beyond the post’s own 24-hour lifetime.
You can delete your account and everything it owns from Settings → Your account → Delete account in the app. Full instructions are on the account deletion page.
NEXT24 is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from them. If you believe a child has used the app, contact us and we will remove the content.
If this policy changes in a way that affects what we collect, the app will say so before the change takes effect, and the date at the top of this page will be updated.
Questions about this policy, or about data we hold: next24official@gmail.com