Private messaging questions
Answers about private dating messages, temporary contact links, QR codes, disposable contact forms, expiry, and protecting your real contact details.
Create a Contactable token and share the public link or QR code. They can send a message through the token without seeing your phone number, email address, WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, or other personal contact details.
Yes. Contactable is useful when you want someone to reach you but you are not ready to share your real number. You can accept or decline the first request, keep the chat temporary, and destroy it whenever you want.
Yes. The public page only shows the intent and message form. Your email address is not displayed and the core product does not require accounts for basic use.
Yes. Each token gives you a QR code that opens the private message request page. It works well for events, dating, selling items, collecting something, lost property, or letting someone contact you once.
You see the request on your private owner page. You can accept it to open a temporary chat, decline it, or destroy the chat completely.
Yes. The owner can use Destroy Chat from the manage page. The requester can also destroy the temporary thread from their side.
Yes. You choose a lifetime when creating the token. When it expires, the token and messages are removed by the cleanup process.
Public tokens use three random short words and lookups are rate-limited. The owner manage link is much longer and private. Message access is tied to the token flow and the active browser session.
Message bodies are encrypted before being stored in the database, but Contactable is not end-to-end encrypted. The server application decrypts messages to show them to the correct owner or requester page.
It is for anyone who wants short-term contact without giving away permanent details: dating, marketplace sellers, event organisers, freelancers, drivers, delivery meetups, community groups, and people handling lost property.