SocialParty Privacy Policy

This policy explains what information SocialParty collects, how we use it, and the choices you have. SocialParty is an app for discovering local, time-bound events at venues and coordinating plans with friends.

1. Information We Collect

Information you provide

• Account: You can create an account two ways:
  • Sign in with Apple: we receive a name and an email address from Apple. Apple lets you hide your real email and use a private relay address instead; if you do, we only ever see the relay address.
  • Email and password: you provide an email address and choose a password. We store your password only as a salted, one-way hash — never in plain text. To confirm the address is yours we email you a verification code (and a tap-to-verify link), and you can request a password-reset code by email if you forget it.
  In either case we assign you a username (@handle) and you may set a display name.
• Guest access: You can browse nearby public events without an account ("Continue as a guest"). In guest mode we do not create a profile or collect your name, email, or password; we issue a temporary, anonymous access token to your device. We still process your device's location to load the current feed (see below) and keep standard server logs.
• Profile: An optional profile photo you upload and an optional birthday you provide.
• Content you create: Venues and events you add, event cover photos and venue cover photos you upload, descriptions, hours, and contact details for venues you own.
• Social activity: Friend requests and friendships, groups you create or join and their invites, events you mark interest in ("going"), event invitations, and the dates/time-periods you mark yourself available.
• Invitations by email: If you invite someone to SocialParty by email, we collect the email address you enter in order to send that invitation and to prevent abuse (rate-limiting and avoiding duplicate sends). We do not use these addresses for marketing, and the recipient can opt out of further invitations using the link in the email.
• Reports: Information you submit when reporting a venue, event, or user.

Information collected automatically

• Location: To show nearby events, the app sends your device's location (latitude/longitude) when you load the events feed. For signed-in users we store your most recent location and the time it was recorded to power "nearby event" notifications. For guests we use location only to fetch the current feed and do not store it. We do not continuously track your location in the background.
• Device & push tokens: A push-notification token for your device and whether it is a development or production device, so we can deliver notifications.
• Server logs: Standard request logs, which may include your IP address, the actions you take, and timestamps.

Information from Apple

• Sign in with Apple: Identity token used to authenticate you.
• Subscriptions: If you purchase a subscription (e.g., to claim a venue), Apple processes the payment. We receive subscription status and identifiers from Apple, not your payment card or financial details.

2. How We Use Information

We use your information to: create and secure your account; verify your email address and let you reset a forgotten password; send transactional emails such as verification and password-reset messages; show you nearby and relevant events; operate friends, groups, availability, and invitations; deliver notifications you've enabled; process and manage subscriptions and venue claims; moderate uploaded images and respond to reports; maintain security and prevent abuse; and comply with legal obligations.

3. Information Visible to Other Users

SocialParty is social by design, so some information is shown to others:

• Public to any signed-in user: your username, display name, and profile photo; and venues and public events you create. An event shows how many people in total are going, but that count is anonymous — no one can see who is attending unless they are your friend.
• Visible to your friends only: your upcoming events, your birthday (if you provide one), your available dates, and the fact that you're going to an event (your friends see you by name in an event's attendee list; users who aren't your friends never do).
• Visible to group members only: group membership, group invitations, and events tied to a group.
• Uploaded images (profile, venue, and event photos) are served from public web URLs, so anyone with the link to an image can view it.

4. Content Moderation

To keep explicit or graphic content off the platform, uploaded images are screened in two ways:

• On your device: When iOS "Sensitive Content Warning" is enabled, images are checked on your device using Apple's Sensitive Content Analysis. This check runs entirely on your device — the image is not sent anywhere for it.
• On our server: A reduced-size copy of each uploaded image is sent to Amazon Web Services (Amazon Rekognition) for automated content-moderation analysis. AWS analyzes the image to detect explicit, violent, or otherwise prohibited content and returns labels to us. Images that fail moderation are rejected and not stored.

5. How We Share Information

We do not sell your personal information. We share it only with:

• Service providers that operate the app on our behalf:
  • Apple — authentication (Sign in with Apple), push notifications (APNs), and subscription processing (App Store).
  • Amazon Web Services — automated image moderation, as described above (processed in the United States region).
• Other users, as described in Section 3.
• Legal and safety — when required by law, to enforce our terms, or to protect the rights, safety, and security of users or the public.

Verification and password-reset emails are sent from our own mail infrastructure; we do not share your email address with a third-party email or marketing provider.

6. Data Retention

We keep your information for as long as your account is active. If you delete your account, we remove your personal profile and credentials (including any stored password hash) and, for Sign in with Apple, revoke your Apple authorization. Note that venues and events you created remain on the platform but become unattributed ("ownerless"). Email addresses you enter to invite people to SocialParty are retained for up to 90 days for spam-prevention purposes and then automatically deleted, and the invitations you sent are removed immediately if you delete your account. Server logs and backups are retained for a limited period and then deleted on a rolling basis.

7. Your Choices and Rights

• Account deletion: You can delete your account at any time from Settings in the app, which removes your account and, for Sign in with Apple, revokes your Apple authorization. You can also request deletion from the web, without the app, at socialparty.io/delete-account — we email a confirmation link to your account's address, and your account is deleted once you confirm.
• Password: If you signed up with email and password, you can reset it from the sign-in screen ("Forgot password?").
• Profile photo: Add, change, or remove it in Settings.
• Notifications: Turn notification types on or off in Settings, or disable them in your device's iOS settings.
• Location: Manage location access in your device's iOS settings; declining it limits the nearby-events features.
• Subscriptions: Manage or cancel through your Apple ID subscription settings.
• Regional rights: Depending on where you live (e.g., the EEA/UK under GDPR, or California under CCPA/CPRA), you may have rights to access, correct, delete, or port your data, and to object to or restrict certain processing. To exercise these, contact us at privacy@59burnham.com.

8. Data Security

We protect your data with measures including encrypted connections (HTTPS), token-based authentication with short-lived access tokens, and least-privilege access to our systems. No method of transmission or storage is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

9. Children

SocialParty is not directed to children under 18, and we do not knowingly collect information from them. If you believe a child has provided us information, contact us and we will delete it.

10. International Users

We operate from the United States, and our service providers (including AWS) may process data in the United States. If you use SocialParty from outside of the United States, you consent to the transfer and processing of your information there.

11. Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy from time to time. We'll post the new effective date here and, for material changes, provide notice in the app.

12. Contact

Questions or requests: privacy@59burnham.com.