F-Chat Rising does not collect any personal information about you, your computer, or anything else, other than what is necessary to connect you to F-Chat.
No data about your sessions, chats, characters, passwords, et cetera, is shared with the F-Chat Rising developers.
## Connectivity
F-Chat Rising connects to the following hosts:
*`f-list.net`– FChat, FList, profiles, character search, authentication, character images, etc.
Your character name, password, messages, and any other private data is only sent to `f-list.net`; the other services are queried anonymously.
Your IP address will be exposed to all of these services.
## Link Previews
When the 'Link Preview' feature is used, F-Chat Rising will connect to the URL being previewed and any other hosts that are linked from the page being previewed.
* F-Chat Rising uses [@cliqz/adblocker](https://github.com/ghostery/adblocker) to block as many ads and trackers as possible.
* Using the Link Preview feature will expose you to similar risks that opening a link in your web browser does.
* If you are concerned about your security or privacy, consider disabling the link preview feature in F-Chat Rising settings.
* In some cases F-Chat Rising uses 'proxy services' that help formatting Link Previews. For example:
* Twitter previews are proxied through `api.fxtwitter.com`
