Privacy Policy

1. What we collect

• · Account: the email address you sign up with, used only for magic-link sign-in.
• · Profile: whatever you choose to add — pseudonym, bio, interest tags, boundaries, what you're looking for, and a free-text location (e.g. "Denver" or "Capitol Hill") that you type yourself.
• · Messages: the content of chats you participate in, for as long as your chat's retention setting keeps them (see Section 3).
• · Reports and blocks: if you report or block another member, we keep a record of that action so we can act on it.

2. What we do NOT collect

• · No precise location. We never geocode your location text into coordinates, and we never ask for or store GPS/device location. Your location field is exactly what you typed, nothing more.
• · No ID or selfie verification. We do not collect government ID, a selfie, or any other formal age-verification document. Age is self-attested at signup (see the Terms of Service).
• · No photos or images at all. CasualMeet has no photo upload or image-sharing feature anywhere — profiles and messages are text only.

3. Message retention

Every chat has a retention setting, chosen by either participant, that applies to the whole chat for everyone in it:

• · A day-count: 90 days by default, or a shorter window of 60 or 30 days, or
• · Burn-after-reading: messages are deleted 1 minute, 5 minutes, or 1 hour after being opened by their recipient.

Once a message passes its retention window, it is permanently deleted from our systems. You can also delete your own messages or entire chats manually at any time, independent of the retention setting.

4. How we use your data

We use your data only to operate CasualMeet: to show your profile to other members (subject to your settings), to deliver messages, to enforce retention and deletion, and to review reports. We do not sell your data, and we do not use it for advertising or share it with third parties except the infrastructure providers necessary to run the service (hosting, database, email delivery).

5. Account and data deletion

You can delete your account at any time. Deleting your account removes your profile immediately. Messages you've sent remain subject to the retention settings of the chats they're in, but are removed from your own view.

6. Security

We take reasonable measures to protect your data, but as a small, solo-operated project, we cannot guarantee the same security posture as a larger company. Please avoid sharing information in your profile or messages that you would be uncomfortable having exposed in a breach.

7. Contact

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