Effective Date: September 7, 2026
SoCaly (“SoCaly,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, when we may share it, and the choices available to you when you use the SoCaly mobile application and related services.
SoCaly is intended only for users who are 18 years of age or older.
Depending on how you use SoCaly, we may collect the following categories of information.
When you create or use a SoCaly account, we may collect information such as:
Name
Email address
Account or user identifier
Age or age-related information
Profile information you choose to provide
We use this information to create and authenticate your account and provide SoCaly's features.
You may choose to provide information for your SoCaly profile, such as:
Profile photos
Gender
Dating or matching preferences
Interests
Biography or profile descriptions
Profile prompts and responses
Other information you choose to display on your profile
Some of this information may be considered sensitive information under applicable privacy laws.
Information you choose to include on your profile may be visible to other SoCaly users.
SoCaly may use location information to determine whether you are within a region where SoCaly is available and to provide location-based features.
This may include approximate or coarse location information, such as your general area or county.
We do not use location information for third-party advertising or cross-app tracking.
We may collect content that you upload, create, send, or share through SoCaly, including:
Profile photos
Photos or other media sent through supported features
Community posts
Comments
Polls
Profile content
Reports submitted to SoCaly
Other content you choose to provide
Content that you intentionally post publicly or within community areas of SoCaly may be visible to other users.
SoCaly may store messages and related information when you communicate with other users through the app.
Messages are associated with the accounts participating in the conversation and are used to provide SoCaly's messaging functionality, safety features, and moderation tools.
SoCaly provides voice calling features. When you use voice calling, the app may access your device's microphone and transmit audio as necessary to provide the call.
SoCaly does not use voice-call audio for advertising or tracking.
We may collect information about actions you take within SoCaly, such as:
Likes and dislikes
Swipes
Matches
Reactions
Saved content
Blocks
Reports
Community interactions
Other actions necessary to operate SoCaly features
This information may be associated with your SoCaly account.
We may collect device-related identifiers or tokens necessary to operate features such as:
Push notifications
Message notifications
Match notifications
Community notifications
Incoming call notifications
Voice calling
For example, a notification or VoIP token may be associated with your account so that SoCaly can deliver a notification or incoming call to the correct device.
We do not use these identifiers for third-party advertising or cross-app tracking.
If you purchase a subscription, virtual currency, or other digital product through SoCaly, we may receive information about the transaction, such as:
Product purchased
Subscription or entitlement status
Transaction status
Purchase history
Information necessary to restore purchases
Purchases are processed through Apple's App Store. SoCaly does not receive your complete payment card information.
We use RevenueCat to help manage purchases, subscriptions, entitlements, and purchase validation.
We may use information collected through SoCaly to:
Create and manage user accounts
Authenticate users
Display and operate user profiles
Provide discovery, likes, matches, and other social features
Personalize relevant app experiences
Provide private messaging
Provide voice calling
Provide community posts, comments, reactions, and polls
Process and restore purchases
Deliver push and incoming-call notifications
Enforce blocks, reports, suspensions, and bans
Investigate abuse, fraud, safety concerns, and violations of our rules
Protect the security and integrity of SoCaly
Maintain and improve app functionality
Respond to support requests
Comply with applicable laws and legal obligations
SoCaly does not use your personal information for third-party advertising.
SoCaly does not sell your personal information to advertisers.
SoCaly does not use the personal information described in this policy for cross-app or cross-website advertising tracking.
We may share information with service providers when necessary to operate SoCaly.
These may include:
Supabase — provides backend services such as authentication, databases, storage, and other infrastructure used by SoCaly.
RevenueCat — provides purchase, subscription, entitlement, and purchase-validation services.
Apple — provides services including App Store purchases, device functionality, push notifications, and other iOS platform services.
Expo and related infrastructure providers — may be used to support application functionality and notification delivery.
These providers may process information only as necessary to provide their services to SoCaly and are subject to their own privacy and security practices.
We may also disclose information when required by law or when reasonably necessary to protect users, enforce our policies, investigate abuse, or protect the rights and safety of SoCaly or others.
Certain information is designed to be shared with other SoCaly users.
For example, other users may be able to see information you choose to make part of your profile, including your name, photos, profile information, interests, and other profile content.
Community posts, comments, and similar content may also be visible to other users.
Private messages are intended for the users participating in the conversation, subject to applicable safety, moderation, legal, and security requirements.
Please avoid sharing information through SoCaly that you do not want others to receive or view.
SoCaly may process reports, blocks, messages, profiles, community activity, and other relevant information to:
Investigate reports
Prevent harassment or abuse
Detect fraudulent or harmful activity
Enforce our Terms of Service and Community Guidelines
Suspend or ban accounts when appropriate
Protect users and the SoCaly community
We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to operate SoCaly, provide requested services, protect the safety and security of our users, resolve disputes, enforce our agreements, and comply with applicable legal obligations.
Some information may remain temporarily in system backups, security logs, transaction records, or other records where retention is necessary for operational, fraud-prevention, security, or legal purposes.
You may request deletion of your SoCaly account from within the app.
When an account deletion request is successfully completed, SoCaly will delete or de-identify account information as appropriate, subject to information we are required or permitted to retain for security, fraud prevention, financial, legal, or other legitimate purposes.
Deleting your SoCaly account does not automatically cancel an Apple App Store subscription.
If you have an active subscription, you must manage or cancel it through your Apple ID/App Store subscription settings.
For additional assistance with account or data deletion, contact:
socaly.app@gmail.com
Depending on where you live, you may have rights relating to your personal information, including the ability to request:
Access to certain personal information
Correction of certain information
Deletion of your information
Information about how your data is used
Other rights provided by applicable law
You can also modify certain profile information directly within SoCaly.
To submit a privacy request, contact:
socaly.app@gmail.com
We may need to verify that you are the account owner before completing certain requests.
We use reasonable technical and organizational measures designed to protect information handled through SoCaly.
However, no online service, application, database, or method of electronic transmission can guarantee absolute security.
Users should protect their login credentials and should not share passwords or account-access information with others.
SoCaly is intended exclusively for adults who are 18 years of age or older.
People under 18 are not permitted to create or use a SoCaly account.
If we become aware that an account belongs to a person under 18, we may remove the account and associated information as appropriate.
If you believe a person under 18 is using SoCaly, please contact:
SoCaly may collect your mobile phone number when you voluntarily request phone verification. Your phone number is used to send authentication or verification messages related to your SoCaly account.
We do not sell or share your SMS opt-in data or personal information with third parties for marketing purposes.
We may update this Privacy Policy as SoCaly changes or as required by law.
When we make changes, we may update the effective date shown at the top of this policy. Continued use of SoCaly after an updated policy becomes effective may be subject to the updated policy.
If you have questions, concerns, or privacy requests regarding SoCaly or this Privacy Policy, contact us at:
SoCaly Support
Email: socaly.app@gmail.com