Privacy Policy

1. What we collect

Account: your email address and an encrypted password, handled by our authentication provider.

Profile: display name, date of birth, gender if you provide it, country and city if you provide them, a short bio, profile photo, the languages you speak and are learning with your proficiency, plus your interests and learning goals.

Location: if you choose to share it, your device's location is read to work out your city and country, using your device's own location services, and is sent to our servers to place you approximately. It is rounded on arrival to an approximate position (about one kilometre), and only that approximate position is stored. Your exact coordinates are not kept. Neither the approximate position nor any coordinates are ever shown to another member — see “What other people can see” below for what is shown instead.

Content: messages you send, voice notes, images shared in chat, corrections and reactions.

Technical: a device push token if you enable notifications, and diagnostic data needed to keep the service running.

2. Why we use it

To create and run your account, suggest compatible language partners, show you nearby partners if you enable location sharing, deliver your messages, send notifications you have enabled, keep the service safe, and meet legal obligations.

3. What other people can see

Your display name, photo, age, languages, interests, goals and bio are visible to other members. Your date of birth is never shown; only your age is derived from it. Your city and country appear only if you turn on location sharing in Privacy settings; your precise location and coordinates are never shown to anyone, under any setting. If you keep location sharing off, other members see your local time instead of a place. Your online status and last-active time appear only if you turn them on. Your email address is never shown to other members.

4. Who we share it with

We do not sell your data. We use processors to run the service: a hosting and database provider, a push notification provider, and error monitoring. Processors act on our instructions. Message translation is not currently available. If it is introduced, the text of a message you choose to translate would be sent to a translation provider for that purpose only, and this policy would be updated first.

5. Advertising

The free version of Peerify may show a small number of clearly labelled ads in the Discover and Community lists. They are provided by Google AdMob. Peerify Plus is ad-free, and ads are not shown in chats.

To deliver, limit and measure ads, Google may collect and process data from your device: your IP address (which can indicate your approximate location), device and app identifiers, diagnostic and performance data, and how you interact with ads. Google uses this data under its own privacy policy. We ask Google for non-personalised ads, and Peerify does not ask for permission to track you across other companies' apps and websites. We do not give advertisers your messages, profile, email address or precise location.

Where the law requires it, for example in the EEA, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, you are asked for your choice before any ad is requested, and you can change it at any time in Settings, Privacy, "Ad privacy choices".

How Google uses data from apps that use its services: policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. Google Privacy Policy: policies.google.com/privacy.

6. Notifications

Push notifications are optional and controlled per category in Settings. You can turn them off at any time in the app or in iOS Settings.

7. Retention and deletion

You can delete your account at any time in Settings. Deletion permanently removes your profile, photo, media and account. Messages you sent to other people are anonymised rather than removed, because they form part of another person's conversation. Reports and moderation records are retained for safety and abuse prevention.

See Deleting your account for the exact steps.

8. Your choices

You can edit or remove profile information at any time, control what is visible in Privacy settings, block or report other members, opt out of analytics in Settings, and delete your account.

9. Children

Peerify is for adults. It is not directed at anyone under 18, and we remove accounts found to belong to minors.

10. International transfers

Your data may be processed in countries other than your own by the providers named above, with appropriate safeguards.

11. Changes

We may update this policy. Material changes will be notified in the app before they take effect.

12. Contact

Privacy questions can be sent to our support team.