Privacy Policy

Flockie is operated by the Flockie team (“Flockie”, “we”, “us”). We are not yet publishing a registered entity or address; those details remain to be confirmed with counsel before public launch. We are the controller of the personal data described in this policy. For privacy questions or requests, write to hello@findflockie.com. Data protection officer and EU/UK representative, if required (to be confirmed)

This policy covers findflockie.com, the Flockie web app and its installable (PWA) version. It should be read with our Terms of Service and our Cookie and Storage Notice.

From X, when you connect it. Through Privy, we receive your X user ID, handle, display name and profile picture URL. We never receive or store your X password, and we don’t read your posts, followers or messages on X.

Email sign-in. Privy sends a one-time passcode to the email address you use to sign in. The API may receive a Privy-signed identity token during sign-in, but Flockie does not use or store your email address in its own account records.

Account and sign-in. Your Privy user ID, the address of your embedded wallet, account status, sign-in times, and the policy versions you accepted.

Your profile. Display name, optional pronouns, gender, date of birth (others only ever see your age), city or region and country, bio, interests, and up to six photos. We re-encode photos to strip camera metadata, including GPS location, before storing them.

Preferences and availability. The modes you use (Dating, Friends), the genders you’d like to meet in Dating mode, your preferred age range, region and language, how many Drops you’re available for at once, and whether you’ve paused.

Drops and connections. The Drops you open or appear in, who you were introduced to and when, extension requests and responses, your Keep choices, and reward allocations.

Conversations. Messages you send and receive are delivered and stored by our chat provider, Stream. Our own database stores no chat text. The only exception: when our safety screening holds back or blocks a message before delivery, we keep a short excerpt (up to 500 characters) for moderators to review.

Payments and wallet. Wallet addresses, amounts, transaction hashes, the random on-chain identifiers of your Drops and extensions, and payment status. We don’t see or store any private keys.

Safety and moderation. Reports you make or that concern you (the reason, any details you add, and the IDs of any messages attached as evidence), blocks, moderation actions, appeals, and the automated screening results for messages (which rules matched and a score, without the text).

Device, security and risk signals. IP address and basic request information in our security logs and rate limits. To prevent fraud, ban evasion and fake accounts, we record salted, one-way hashes of device, network and wallet identifiers. We never keep the raw values of these signals.

Notifications. If you turn on notifications, the push subscription your browser gives us (a delivery endpoint and encryption keys) and your notification preferences. Message previews are off by default.

Events. If you register for an Event: the Event, your registration details (display name, company, role, what you’re building, what you’re looking for, interests, whether you’re open to meetings), and the free times you share. Calendar contents are never collected. If you book or receive a professional meeting at an Event: its time, length, agenda, status, amount and payment records, and any no-show or problem report.

Activity signals. Counts and times derived from how you use Flockie (for example whether and how quickly conversations get replies, how many messages were exchanged, Keeps, reward allocations received, extensions, event meetings, and reports, blocks or moderation outcomes). Not message text.

Support. Anything you send us when you contact support.

Information from others. Reports other members make about you, and the evidence attached to them.

We don’t collect precise location, contacts, or your activity on other websites, and we don’t buy data about you.

Some of what you tell us may reveal sensitive information, such as your sexual orientation (for example, the genders you’d like to meet in Dating mode). We use it only to find mutually compatible introductions, we never show your preferences to other members, and we never put them on-chain. You can change your preferences or switch to Friends mode at any time. Legal basis for special-category data, e.g. explicit consent under the GDPR (to be confirmed)

How matching uses activity signals. Beyond mutual eligibility, matching uses engagement, reliability and reputation signals from your activity on Flockie (such as conversation follow-through, Keeps, reward allocations received, event meetings, and safety history) to weigh who is likelier to be introduced. These signals are internal: we never show them to you or to other members, they only make an introduction more or less likely, they never override anyone’s preferences or safety rules, and they never decide anything about your account on their own.

We don’t sell your personal information, we don’t share it for cross-context behavioural advertising, and we don’t use private chat content to profile you for growth or marketing. Automated screening can hold or block a message, or briefly pause an account pending review, but serious and lasting decisions — such as a ban — are always made by a person, and you can appeal them.

• People in your Drops see your connection card: display name, age, city, approved photos, bio and interests. If you connected X, your handle and profile link stay hidden until you and the other person Keep each other permanently. There is no public profile and no way to browse members.
• The other person in a conversation sees the messages you send them.
• Your Keep is private. No one is ever told whether you kept them unless you kept each other.
• Reward allocations aren’t shown to participants while a Drop is running. After settlement, each participant can see what they received.
• At an Event, your registration details are shown only to the people you’re connected with through that Event’s Event Packs; there is no attendee list. Your free times are never shown as such: the Event Pack opener you’re connected with only sees start times you’re free for. A professional meeting is visible only to its two people.
• We never show your date of birth, your preferences, your wallet balance, or any score or value attached to you.

We use carefully chosen service providers (“processors”) who handle data on our instructions and under contract. Data processing agreements with each processor (to be confirmed)

Other disclosures.

• The Base network is a public blockchain, not a processor. What we write there is public (see section 7).
• X remains the controller of your X account; its own privacy policy applies.
• Legal and safety. We may disclose information when the law requires it, to respond to valid legal process, or when we believe in good faith that it’s necessary to prevent death or serious harm, to protect a child, or to report suspected child sexual exploitation to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) or the relevant authority. Requests from authorities go to hello@findflockie.com and are reviewed by our safety lead and counsel.
• Business transfers. If Flockie is involved in a merger, acquisition or sale of assets, your information may transfer as part of it, under the same protections.

Drop payments, extensions, reward settlements and event meeting payments are recorded on the Base network. Those records contain only: wallet addresses, amounts, random 32-byte identifiers for Drops, extensions, Events and meetings, timestamps (including a meeting’s scheduled start and end), and events such as “settled”, “released” or “refunded”.

Never on-chain: your name, X handle, photos, profile, gender, preferences, messages, Keep choices, reports, Event registration details or free times, meeting agendas, or anything that says who was introduced to whom. An event meeting payment does show the two wallet addresses involved, like any payment between two wallets.

Blockchain records are public and permanent. Nobody — including us — can delete or change them, even after you delete your account. Anyone who already knows your wallet address could link it to Flockie transactions, so treat your wallet address like other personal details and share it thoughtfully.

Legal holds. When content is part of a serious report (for example suspected exploitation, trafficking, threats or solicitation), we preserve the relevant evidence beyond these periods for as long as the investigation or the law requires. We don’t claim a message is deleted instantly: backups and safety systems may keep copies for a limited time before they’re overwritten.

• Download your data. Settings → Privacy & data → Download your data gives you a JSON copy of your profile, preferences, photos, Drops, connections, payments, reports, Event registrations and free times, and event meetings.
• Correct it. Edit your profile, photos and preferences at any time.
• Delete your account. Profile → Delete account (see section 10).
• Disconnect X. Profile → X connection. You won’t be able to take part in new Drops while X is disconnected.
• Control notifications. Choose categories, keep message previews off (the default), and opt in or out of marketing. Safety and account notices are always on.
• Block and report anyone you’ve been introduced to.

Depending on where you live, you may also have the right to access, correct, delete or port your data, to object to or restrict certain processing, to withdraw consent, and to complain to a data-protection authority. We’ll respond to requests within the time the law requires and won’t discriminate against you for making one. Region-specific rights, e.g. GDPR/UK GDPR, US state privacy laws such as the CCPA/CPRA, and verification procedure (to be confirmed)

Deleting your account, which is available in the app at any time:

• signs you out on every device and removes you from matching straight away;
• deletes your profile, photos, preferences and availability, withdraws your Event registrations (clearing their details and free times) and deletes the internal activity signals used for matching;
• cancels your pending event meeting requests (payments are refunded in full); meeting payment records are kept as payment records;
• unlinks your X account (so you could start a new account with it later, unless your account was banned or blocked for age);
• closes your conversations and asks our chat provider to erase your chat user;
• cancels pending notifications and removes your push subscriptions.

What we keep. A minimal account record (an internal ID, status and dates), the policy versions you accepted, payment and settlement records, audit logs, and — if you were involved in a serious report — the evidence under legal hold. If your account was banned or blocked for being under 18, we keep enough to stop the same login from starting over. Retention of X handle and display name in unlinked X records after deletion (to be confirmed) On-chain records can’t be deleted.

We encrypt data in transit and at rest with our providers, verify every sign-in token on our servers, keep moderation access separate from support access, record every privileged staff action in an append-only audit log, and store photos privately behind short-lived links. No system is perfectly secure; if we learn of a breach that affects you, we’ll tell you as the law requires. Please report vulnerabilities to hello@findflockie.com.

Flockie is only for people aged 18 and over. We don’t knowingly collect data from anyone under 18. If we learn that an account belongs to someone under 18, we block it and delete the data we don’t need to keep for safety or legal reasons. If you believe a minor is using Flockie, report it from the app or email hello@findflockie.com.

Our providers may process data in countries other than yours, including the United States. Transfer mechanisms, e.g. Standard Contractual Clauses or the EU–US Data Privacy Framework, and hosting regions (to be confirmed)

When we change this policy, we update the version date at the top. If the change is material, we’ll tell you in the app before it takes effect and, where required, ask for your consent again.

• Privacy questions and requests: hello@findflockie.com
• Legal and law-enforcement requests: hello@findflockie.com
• Security: hello@findflockie.com