Privacy Policy
Coterie ("we," "us," or "our") is a private membership service for long-form conversation. This Privacy Policy explains how information is handled when you use the Coterie mobile app and related features (the "Service"). For privacy questions, data rights, support, or account deletion, contact us at feedback@coterietie.com.
Coterie is available to people in the United States. Those outside the United States are not meant to use the Service; if you do so anyway, you act on your own and the handling of information is still governed by this Policy and applicable law.
1. Information we collect
Depending on how you use the Service, the following categories of information may be collected:
- Account information. The identifier provided by Sign in with Apple, the email address you choose to share through Apple's relay, and your display name.
- Profile information. Your birth year, used to confirm you are 18 or older; your selected subjects; and a one-line bio. We do not collect an avatar photo or gender.
- User content. Notes, essays, replies, images, invitations, room notes, messages, Talk Cards, reports, and blocks.
- Images. Photos you choose from your photo library to attach to posts or messages. The app accesses only the photos you select.
- Device and technical information. A random identifier generated when the app is installed, your network connection, and the IP address seen when the app reaches our gateway. This is not an advertising identifier, and we do not collect your device model or operating-system version.
- Safety and support information. What you include in reports, blocks, and support requests.
The current build does not use the camera, read contacts, access location, send push notifications, or include advertising, analytics, or crash-reporting tools.
2. How we use information
Information is used to provide and run the Service, create and authenticate your account, display your profile and content, support long-form conversation, review reports, investigate abuse, keep the Service secure, and meet legal obligations. Any new purpose that requires consent will be presented before the relevant processing begins.
3. How we share information
We do not sell personal information. We may share information with categories of service providers that host, operate, or help moderate the Service on our behalf, and with Apple for Sign in with Apple. They are not permitted to use information for their own purposes. The agreements we have with them require that it stays confidential, that it is used only for the work we give them, and that the level of care they apply is at least as strong as the protection in this Policy.
Information may also be shared as required by law, to respond to legal process, to protect someone's safety, to investigate fraud or abuse, or in connection with a corporate transaction such as a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.
4. Identifiers and similar technologies
The app is native and does not use browser cookies. The install-generated identifier and authentication tokens are used to keep you signed in, separate accounts, and secure the Service. This version does not display third-party advertising or use advertising identifiers, and you can control device-level tracking settings through your operating system.
5. Data retention
Information is kept for as long as necessary to provide the Service, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. When you schedule account deletion, the account is hidden and then permanently removed after a notice period, except where we are required or permitted to retain information.
6. Your rights
You may access, correct, or delete information through the app or by contacting feedback@coterietie.com. You may delete individual notes, withdraw Talk Cards, block members, and schedule account deletion. Depending on where you live, you may also have rights to obtain a copy of your information, opt out of sale or sharing, and receive equal treatment for exercising these rights.
California residents may have rights under the CCPA/CPRA, including the right to know, delete, correct, opt out of sale or sharing, and not be discriminated against. We may ask for reasonable information to verify a request and will respond as applicable law requires.
7. Children's privacy
Only adults 18 and over may use Coterie. We are not aware of gathering information from anyone younger than 13. Let us know at feedback@coterietie.com if you think a child has given us information, and we will take care of it.
8. International data transfers
Information may be processed in jurisdictions outside your country of residence, where data-protection laws may differ. Where required, we apply appropriate safeguards for such transfers.
9. Security
We use administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect information, including encrypted connections where information is transmitted. Even so, no electronic system is completely risk-free, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
10. Policy updates
We may revise this Policy as the Service develops. When a change is significant, we will tell you about it in the app or through the published policy channel, and the new effective date will be shown.
11. Contact
For privacy, support, deletion, data-rights, or complaints, contact feedback@coterietie.com.