privacy policy
Cliqx - Privacy policy
United States and Canada (excluding Quebec)
Circle 8, Inc.
Effective Date: August 15th 2026
Contents
Privacy Overview and Commitments
1. Scope, Availability, and Responsibility
2. Personal Information We Collect
3. Sources of Personal Information
4. How We Use Personal Information
5. User Content, Audiences, and Messages
6. Contacts, Invitations, and Referral Messages
7. Analytics, Diagnostics, Website Data, and Device Permissions
8. How We Disclose Personal Information
9. No Sale, Targeted Advertising, or AI Training
10. Retention and Deletion
11. Security and Cross-Border Processing
12. Your Choices and Privacy Rights
13. United States and California Disclosures
14. Canadian Privacy Rights
15. Teen and Children’s Privacy
16. Safety, Moderation, and Legal Process
17. Third-Party Links and Services
18. Changes to This Policy
19. Contact Us
Cliqx is a social networking app operated by Circle 8, Inc. This Privacy Policy explains what Circle 8, Inc. (“we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, how we use and disclose it, how long we keep it, and the rights and choices available to you. It applies to the Cliqx mobile application, websites, invitation pages, and related services (collectively, the “Service”).
Privacy Overview and Commitments
The following commitments describe the public-launch configuration. They should be read together with the detailed qualifications in this Policy:
• No advertising sale or behavioral sharing. We do not sell personal information, share it for cross-context behavioral advertising, or display third-party targeted advertising at launch.
• No bulk contact upload. Your contact list remains on your device. Only the specific people you deliberately choose to invite are transmitted to Cliqx.
• No content-based advertising or generative-AI training. We do not use private messages or other User Content for advertising, commercial profiling, or training generative artificial-intelligence models.
• Real deletion with defined limits. Regular posts are designed to expire after approximately 30 days. In-app account deletion removes the account from active systems immediately, subject to recipient-held copies, shared conversation structures, backups, vendor records, safety records, legal holds, and the other limits described below.
• Account-linked mobile diagnostics. We use Datadog to collect mobile performance, interaction, resource, error, and crash information. In the public-launch configuration, these diagnostics may be collected for each session and linked to your account through an internal user identifier and profile information, including your name and email address where available. We use this information to operate, secure, troubleshoot, and improve Cliqx—not for advertising or cross-app tracking.
If a material change affects these commitments, we will update this Policy and provide notice, consent, or choices where required by law before using personal information for a materially incompatible new purpose.
1. Scope, Availability, and Responsibility
1.1 Scope
This Policy applies to personal information processed by us when you use the Service, visit a Cliqx website or invitation page, communicate with us, submit a report or request, or receive an invitation from a Cliqx user. It does not apply to information another user, Apple, a telecommunications carrier, a device manufacturer, or another independent service processes under its own privacy policy.
1.2 Territorial Availability
The Service is offered in the United States and Canada, excluding Quebec. Cliqx is not offered to Quebec residents. We may infer a coarse country, state, or province-level region from an internet protocol address or use telephone-country information to apply availability, legal, security, fraud-prevention, or communications rules. We do not request precise device location for this purpose.
1.3 Responsible Organization
Circle 8, Inc. is responsible for the personal information described in this Policy. Our Privacy Officer may be contacted at Info@circle-8.co and 8 The Green Ste B, Dover, DE 19901, United States.
2. Personal Information We Collect
2.1 Account and Profile Information
We collect information you provide to create and maintain an account, including your mobile telephone number, verification and account identifiers, name, birth year, gender selection, profile photo, biography, username, privacy and notification settings, blocked-account list, and other profile information you choose to provide. An email address is not required for ordinary phone-based account creation, but we receive an email address if you contact us by email.
2.2 User Content and Communications
We collect User Content you create or send through Cliqx, including posts, stories, comments, reactions, saves, reposts, photos, videos, voice notes, audio, messages, group and crew information, captions, profile media, and related metadata such as sender, recipients, audience, timestamps, content type, delivery status, and interaction status.
2.3 Connections, Social Graph, Activity, and Units
We collect information about Circle, Network, partner, crew, group, and conversation relationships; invitations; blocks; connection actions; mutual relationships; feature interactions; scores; Units earned or spent; catalog selections; unlocks; attempts; balance adjustments; and suspected manipulation. We use this information to determine audiences, operate social features, personalize ordering and suggestions, provide safety controls, and administer Units.
2.4 Selected Invitees
If you grant contacts permission, the address book is read locally on your device to populate a picker. We do not upload the full address book. When you deliberately select someone to invite, we receive the selected person’s name and telephone number, the inviter’s account identifier and name, invitation status, message-template information, country treatment, delivery events, registration match, opt-out status, consent-confirmation status, consent-disclosure version, and confirmation timestamp.
2.5 Device, Network, Website, and Technical Information
We collect technical information such as internet protocol address, device model, operating-system type and version, app version, language, time zone, mobile carrier, browser information, push-notification token, session and request identifiers, network and resource performance, crash and error data, security events, authentication events, standard server logs, referral page, invitation token, and page interactions. Cliqx websites and invitation pages may use necessary cookies or local storage for security, routing, preferences, and basic operation. We do not use third-party advertising pixels at launch.
2.6 Reports, Safety, Support, and Legal Requests
We collect reports, the reported account or content, reasonably related context, block information, reviewer notes, enforcement decisions, appeals, safety communications, and information you provide when contacting support, privacy, legal, copyright, or arbitration channels. We also retain records of the Terms version accepted, acceptance time, and arbitration opt-out status.
2.7 Information We Do Not Intentionally Collect
At public launch, Cliqx does not intentionally collect precise GPS location, facial-recognition templates, biometric identifiers, health information, government identification numbers, payment-card data, financial-account information, or purchased advertising-profile data. The app contains no advertising, attribution, or social-media tracking SDKs. Users may nevertheless choose to include sensitive information in User Content; share thoughtfully because authorized recipients may retain or disclose it.
3. Sources of Personal Information
We collect personal information directly from you; from your device when you grant permission or use a feature; automatically from the Service, servers, websites, invitation pages, security systems, and diagnostics; from other users who invite, connect with, message, or report interactions involving you; from service providers; and from legal, safety, security, and fraud-prevention sources where permitted by law.
4. How We Use Personal Information
We use personal information to provide, secure, personalize, administer, and improve Cliqx, including to:
• create, authenticate, maintain, and secure accounts; verify telephone numbers; maintain sessions; prevent account takeover; and support sign-in;
• deliver posts, stories, messages, media, notifications, invitations, and other communications to the intended audience;
• create and maintain Circle, Network, partner, crew, group, and conversation relationships;
• rank and order connections, posts, suggestions, notifications, and features using relationship, engagement, recency, popularity, safety, integrity, and product-relevance signals;
• calculate scores, award or deduct Units, provide catalog features, correct errors, and detect manipulation;
• provide blocking, reporting, moderation, spam prevention, malicious-link controls, upload validation, and abuse-prevention features;
• investigate reports and appeals, enforce our Terms, protect minors, protect rights, and preserve evidence;
• send verification codes, service notices, security alerts, legal notices, and optional notifications;
• measure reliability, diagnose errors, improve performance, test features, and understand aggregate feature use;
• comply with law, court orders, regulatory duties, preservation obligations, and valid legal process; and
• support a merger, financing, acquisition, reorganization, bankruptcy, sale of assets, or other corporate transaction, subject to appropriate safeguards.
We may use aggregated or de-identified information for lawful analytics, research, security, and service improvement. We maintain information treated as de-identified without attempting to re-identify it, except to test whether de-identification controls are effective or as otherwise permitted by law.
5. User Content, Audiences, and Messages
5.1 Audience-Based Sharing
We disclose User Content and profile or relationship information to the audience you select or to participants in the feature you use. Depending on the feature, this may include your Circle, your Circle and Network, a partner, a crew, a group, selected recipients, or another audience expressly displayed in the Service.
5.2 Recipients Can Retain or Re-Share Information
Cliqx’s access controls cannot prevent a recipient from taking a screenshot, recording a screen, photographing a device, downloading content where available, quoting a message, or sharing information outside Cliqx. We cannot control information after another user independently copies or discloses it.
5.3 Messages Are Not End-to-End Encrypted
Messages are encrypted in transit and protected using our service security controls, but they are not end-to-end encrypted. Message content is stored in a form that authorized personnel may be technically capable of accessing. We do not routinely read private messages. We may access message content when reasonably necessary to operate or troubleshoot the Service with authorization, investigate a report, address abuse or safety, protect rights, preserve evidence, or comply with law.
5.4 No Advertising, Commercial Profiling, or Generative-AI Training
We do not use private-message content or other User Content for advertising, targeted advertising, or commercial profiling, and we do not use User Content to train generative artificial-intelligence models. Limited automated processing may identify technical attributes, such as whether a message includes media or a link, to provide product functionality.
5.5 Reports and Context
When content or a message is reported, authorized reviewers may access the reported material and reasonably related context needed to understand the report, protect users, enforce our Terms, or comply with law. We use role-based access and operational controls to limit this access.
6. Contacts, Invitations, and Referral Messages
6.1 On-Device Contact Picker
If you permit contacts access, Cliqx uses the device address book only to populate an on-device picker. The full address book is not transmitted to Cliqx, hashed for contact matching, or used to create a shadow social graph. You choose each person whose information is sent.
6.2 How Invitation Information Is Used
For a selected invitee, we process the name and telephone number supplied by the inviter, the inviter’s name and account identifier, invitation link or token, message-template version, country classification, timestamps, delivery result, registration match, opt-out status, consent-confirmation status, consent-disclosure version, and confirmation timestamp. We use this information to send and manage the requested invitation, prevent duplicate or prohibited messages, match an accepted invitation to a new account, detect abuse, document messaging consent, and document compliance.
6.3 United States and Canadian Messages
For United States and Canadian numbers outside Quebec, a given Cliqx member may send no more than one SMS invitation to the same recipient. Cliqx does not send automated invitation reminders, recurring invitation sequences, or marketing follow-ups. Canadian referral messages identify the referring user by full name, state that the message resulted from a referral, identify Cliqx, and include an unsubscribe method. We do not send invitation messages to Quebec numbers or known Quebec residents.
6.4 Twilio
We use Twilio to deliver Cliqx invitation texts. Twilio receives the destination number, rendered message, sender or messaging-service information, status-callback information, and delivery metadata needed to manage the message—not unrelated profile information. A name displayed in the invitation is necessarily part of the message body.
· We do not share, sell, or provide mobile information, including mobile phone numbers, or messaging consent data to third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes.
· A given Cliqx member may send no more than one SMS invitation to the same recipient.
· Message frequency varies based on invitations initiated by Cliqx members. Message and data rates may apply.
6.5 Opt-Out and Suppression
Recipients may unsubscribe by replying STOP where supported. Replying STOP blocks all future Cliqx SMS to that number unless the recipient affirmatively opts back in. We maintain a minimized suppression record to enforce that choice. A non-user may also contact Info@circle-8.co regarding invitation information.
7. Analytics, Diagnostics, Website Data, and Device Permissions
7.1 Essential Operational Logs
We collect essential server, authentication, security, delivery, and reliability logs to operate and protect the Service, detect failures and abuse, investigate incidents, and maintain performance. These logs may contain account identifiers, internet protocol addresses, request information, device and app information, delivery events, and error details. We apply filtering and access controls intended to exclude message text, post text, contact contents, authentication credentials, and uploaded media from routine logs.
7.2 Mobile Analytics and Diagnostics
We use Datadog for mobile real-user monitoring, performance measurement, interaction and network-resource tracking, error detection, and native crash reporting. In the public-launch configuration, Datadog is enabled for production sessions and may receive an internal user identifier, your name, your email address where available, device and app information, screens and interactions, network-resource information, errors, performance data, and crash data. These diagnostics are linked to your account. We use them to operate, secure, troubleshoot, and improve Cliqx—not for advertising or cross-app tracking.
7.3 Collection and Support Diagnostics
In the public-launch configuration, Datadog real-user monitoring is configured to collect all production sessions rather than a sample. We may later reduce or otherwise adjust collection based on operational needs and will update this Policy and applicable platform disclosures if our practices materially change.
7.4 Device Permissions
Cliqx may request contacts access to display an on-device invite picker; camera access to take profile photos or capture photos and videos you choose to share; photo-library access to select media; photo-library save access when you choose to download media; microphone access to record voice notes or video with sound; and notification access to deliver alerts you enable. You can change permissions in device settings. Disabling a permission may prevent the associated feature from working. Cliqx does not request precise-location permission.
8. How We Disclose Personal Information
8.1 To Other Users
We disclose your profile, relationship information, User Content, messages, activity, and other information to users according to the feature, audience, and settings you choose. Interaction information such as reactions, reposts, comments, group membership, relationship status, or delivery status may be visible to relevant users.
8.2 Service Providers
We disclose personal information to providers that process it for us under contractual and operational restrictions. Key providers at launch include Amazon Web Services for hosting, storage, content delivery, and media processing; MongoDB Atlas for database hosting; Google Firebase for push notifications; Twilio for telephone verification and invitation text-message delivery; Datadog for diagnostics and monitoring; and Expo/EAS for application builds, submissions, and over-the-air software updates. We may replace or add providers as the Service evolves and require providers to use information only for authorized services, legal compliance, security, and limited operational purposes consistent with applicable law.
8.3 Legal, Safety, Security, and Rights Protection
We may access, preserve, and disclose information when we reasonably believe it is necessary to comply with law or valid legal process; protect a person from death, serious injury, exploitation, or other substantial harm; investigate fraud, abuse, or security incidents; enforce our Terms; protect our rights or the rights of users or others; establish, exercise, or defend legal claims; or respond to emergencies. We may challenge or narrow requests where appropriate and legally permitted.
8.4 Corporate Transactions
We may disclose information in connection with a financing, merger, acquisition, reorganization, bankruptcy, sale of assets, or similar transaction. We will require the recipient to handle personal information consistently with applicable law and provide notice where required.
8.5 At Your Direction, With Consent, or in De-Identified Form
We may disclose information when you direct us to do so, select an audience, use an integration, request an invitation or support action, or otherwise consent. We may also disclose information aggregated or de-identified so that it cannot reasonably be linked to an individual, subject to legal restrictions and commitments not to re-identify it.
9. No Sale, Targeted Advertising, or AI Training
At launch, we do not sell personal information, share it for cross-context behavioral advertising, use it for targeted advertising, display third-party ads, or conduct profiling that produces legal or similarly significant effects. We do not knowingly sell or share information of users under 18, offer privacy-related financial incentives, or use private messages or other User Content to train generative-AI models. Units are a product feature, not payment for personal information.
Because we do not engage in sale, targeted-advertising sharing, or cross-context advertising tracking, there is no advertising opt-out required for those practices at launch. If our practices change in a way that creates an opt-out right, we will provide the required mechanism and honor legally recognized opt-out preference signals where applicable.
10. Retention and Deletion
10.1 Retention Principles
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Policy, including providing the Service, honoring choices, maintaining security, preventing abuse, resolving disputes, enforcing agreements, and complying with law. Retention periods are targets and may vary because of technical dependencies, provider configurations, restoration processes, safety needs, disputes, or legal requirements. We periodically review retention and may shorten periods as systems mature.
Category
Intended retention
Regular posts and related feed-delivery records
Approximately 30 days from creation, unless deleted earlier or preserved for a report, safety matter, dispute, or legal requirement.
Stories
Approximately 24 hours from ordinary user access, subject to technical deletion delays, reports, backups, and legal preservation.
Messages and conversations
Until deleted through available features, affected by account deletion as described below, or no longer reasonably necessary to provide the Service. Messages already delivered may remain visible in other participants’ conversation histories.
Unaccepted invitations and selected invitee information
For the period reasonably necessary to deliver and administer the invitation, match an invitee who joins, prevent duplicate or prohibited messages, process opt-outs, investigate abuse, resolve disputes, and comply with law.
SMS delivery and compliance records
For as long as reasonably necessary to document message initiation and delivery, administer suppression and opt-outs, investigate complaints, resolve disputes, and comply with telecommunications and other legal obligations.
STOP and suppression records
For as long as reasonably necessary to ensure that an opted-out number is not contacted again, unless the recipient affirmatively opts back in.
User-media objects
Until the associated content or account is deleted and the media is removed through our active deletion and storage-reconciliation processes, subject to backups, reports, disputes, safety needs, and legal preservation.
Routine backups
Until overwritten or expired through our backup-rotation processes. Backups are maintained for system recovery and are not used to restore deleted content to ordinary user access.
Reports, reviewer notes, and enforcement records
For as long as reasonably necessary to investigate and document reports, administer appeals, identify repeat or serious abuse, protect users, preserve evidence, resolve disputes, and comply with law.
Security and fraud-prevention records
For as long as reasonably necessary to detect and address security threats, account misuse, fraud, abuse, investigations, disputes, and legal obligations.
Terms-acceptance and arbitration records
For as long as reasonably necessary to document the agreement between us and the user, administer arbitration opt-outs, establish or defend legal rights, and comply with recordkeeping obligations.
Vendor logs and authentication records
According to the applicable provider’s configured retention periods and our operational and legal requirements. We seek to minimize, delete, or de-identify these records when they are no longer needed.
Legal holds
Until the relevant hold, investigation, claim, or legal obligation ends, after which ordinary deletion practices resume.
10.2 In-App Account Deletion
You may initiate permanent account deletion from within the app. The process is designed to be irreversible and to remove your account from active systems without a grace-period soft delete. It removes relationships and invitations, authored posts and other active content, conversation memberships, crew memberships, push tokens, profile information, the account record, and the linked authentication account. If you administer a crew, the Service may transfer administration to another eligible member or dissolve a crew with no other members.
10.3 Shared Conversations and Recipient Copies
A shared conversation may remain for other participants after your account is removed. Messages you sent to other users may remain visible to those recipients because they form part of the recipients’ conversation history. Your account and conversation membership are removed, and conversations with no remaining participants are deleted. Other participants’ messages and records remain theirs. Other User Content you authored is removed from active systems as technically implemented, but copies another user independently downloaded, screenshotted, quoted, recorded, or shared outside Cliqx are not under our control.
10.4 Media, Backups, and Provider Records
Associated active media records are removed through account deletion, and orphaned stored media is removed through our active deletion and storage-reconciliation processes. Routine backups expire through our backup-rotation processes and are used for system recovery, not to restore content you deleted to ordinary user access. Datadog records, authentication audit records, carrier records, and other provider records expire under configured provider schedules. We may retain minimized records for opt-outs, security, fraud prevention, Terms acceptance, legal claims, and legal obligations as described above.
10.5 Content-Level Deletion and Expiration
Where a feature permits content-level deletion, deletion removes the content from ordinary access subject to delivery status, caches, backups, reports, legal preservation, and copies retained by recipients. Regular posts are designed to be automatically and permanently deleted after approximately 30 days. Stories are designed to expire from ordinary access after approximately 24 hours. Expiring content may remain temporarily in technical systems after it is no longer visible to users.
11. Security and Cross-Border Processing
11.1 Security Measures
We use administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect personal information, including access controls, least-privilege production access, encryption in transit, protected cloud storage, network controls, secrets management, monitoring, and incident-response procedures. No system is perfectly secure, and we cannot guarantee that unauthorized access, disclosure, loss, alteration, or misuse will never occur.
You can help by protecting your device and telephone account, keeping verification codes confidential, using device security, and promptly reporting suspected account compromise to Info@circle-8.co. If a security incident affects personal information and notification is required, we will notify affected individuals and regulators as required by applicable law.
11.2 Where Information Is Processed
Our primary production infrastructure and data stores are located in the United States, including Amazon Web Services and MongoDB Atlas infrastructure in the eastern United States. Google Firebase, Twilio, Datadog, Expo/EAS, and other providers may process information in the United States, Canada, or other countries where they operate. Information processed in another jurisdiction may be subject to that jurisdiction’s laws and lawful access by courts, law enforcement, or national-security authorities.
11.3 Canadian Transfers
For Canadian users outside Quebec, we remain accountable for personal information transferred to service providers for processing. We use contractual, security, access, and vendor-management measures intended to provide a comparable level of protection, subject to applicable law. Contact our Privacy Officer at Info@circle-8.co for information about service-provider practices or cross-border processing.
12. Your Choices and Privacy Rights
12.1 In-App Controls
You may edit available profile information, select audiences for posts and stories, manage relationships, block users, delete available content, control notifications, revoke contacts permission in device settings, and permanently delete your account through the Service. Some information is required to maintain an account or provide a requested feature.
12.2 Access, Correction, Portability, and Deletion
Depending on applicable law, you may have rights to confirm whether we process your personal information; access it; correct inaccurate information; obtain a portable copy of certain information; delete information subject to exceptions; withdraw consent where processing depends on consent; limit certain uses of sensitive information; use an authorized agent; and appeal a denied request. We will not discriminate against you for exercising an applicable privacy right.
12.3 Submitting and Verifying a Request
Submit a request through any in-app privacy request tool we make available or contact Info@circle-8.co. Describe the right you wish to exercise and provide information reasonably necessary to identify your account. We may verify a request through your authenticated account, telephone verification, or another method proportionate to the sensitivity of the information. Do not send a verification code, password, or highly sensitive content by ordinary email.
12.4 Authorized Agents and Appeals
An authorized agent may submit a request where law permits. We may require evidence of the agent’s authority and direct verification with you unless the agent holds legally sufficient power of attorney. If we deny a request and applicable law provides an appeal right, you may appeal by replying to the denial or contacting Info@circle-8.co with “Privacy Appeal” in the subject line. We will explain the result and any regulator contact required by law.
12.5 Invitation Recipients
A non-user who receives an invitation may opt out through the message, including by replying STOP where supported, and may contact Info@circle-8.co to request information about or deletion of invitation data, subject to minimized suppression and compliance records that we must retain to honor the opt-out or meet legal obligations.
13. United States and California Disclosures
13.1 State Privacy Rights
Depending on your state and whether its privacy law applies to us, you may have the rights in Section 12. We do not sell personal information, share it for behavioral advertising, use it for targeted advertising, or conduct legally significant profiling at launch.
13.2 California Categories
During the preceding 12 months, we have collected the following categories of personal information as described in Section 2: identifiers, such as name, telephone number, username, account identifiers, device identifiers, IP address, and push token; customer-record or contact information, such as selected invitee name and telephone number and support contact information; protected-classification characteristics, such as birth year or age range and gender selection; commercial or program information, such as Units earned and spent and catalog selections; internet or other electronic-network activity, such as feature use, interaction metadata, website or invitation-page activity, logs, errors, performance, and security events; approximate geolocation inferred from IP, not precise GPS location; audio, electronic, visual, and similar information, such as photos, videos, voice notes, messages, posts, stories, and profile media; inferences, such as relationship, recency, popularity, safety, ranking, and feature-relevance signals; and sensitive personal information as defined by applicable law, which may include authentication information, private communications, and information a user chooses to provide that reveals sensitive traits.
We collect these categories from the sources in Section 3, use them for the purposes in Section 4, and disclose them to the recipient categories in Section 8. We retain each category under the periods and criteria in Section 10. During the preceding 12 months, we have not sold personal information or shared it for cross-context behavioral advertising and have not knowingly sold or shared the personal information of consumers under 18. We do not use sensitive personal information to infer characteristics about users or for purposes outside those reasonably necessary to provide, secure, and administer the Service.
13.3 California Rights and Direct Marketing
California residents may have rights to know, access, correct, and delete personal information and obtain information about categories, sources, purposes, retention, and disclosures, subject to statutory exceptions and applicability thresholds. Because we do not sell or share personal information, we do not provide a “Do Not Sell or Share” link at launch. We also do not disclose information for third parties’ own direct marketing or offer a privacy-related financial incentive.
14. Canadian Privacy Rights
14.1 Accountability and Consent
For Canadian users outside Quebec, we process personal information in accordance with applicable federal and provincial private-sector privacy laws. We identify purposes at or before collection, seek meaningful consent where required, limit collection, use, and disclosure to appropriate purposes, use reasonable safeguards, and remain accountable for information transferred to service providers.
14.2 Access, Correction, and Withdrawal
You may request access to personal information under our control and correction of inaccurate or incomplete information, subject to lawful exceptions. We may need to verify identity and may redact information about another person, privileged information, security-sensitive information, or information that law permits us to withhold. Where processing depends on consent, you may withdraw consent subject to legal or contractual restrictions and reasonable notice. Withdrawal may prevent us from providing a feature or the Service where the information is necessary for it.
14.3 Complaints and Regulators
Direct a Canadian privacy question or complaint to our Privacy Officer at Info@circle-8.co and 8 The Green Ste B, Dover, DE 19901, United States. We will investigate and respond within a reasonable period. You may also contact the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada or an applicable provincial privacy regulator, including the privacy regulators of Alberta or British Columbia where appropriate. The Service is not offered in Quebec.
15. Teen and Children’s Privacy
15.1 Age 16 and Older
Cliqx is intended only for people age 16 and older. We collect birth year to apply the age requirement and age-appropriate features. Users under the age of majority must have parent or guardian permission where required by law, but a minor’s acceptance does not by itself bind a parent or guardian who did not separately assent.
15.2 Under-16 Accounts
We do not knowingly permit children under 16 to maintain accounts. If we learn that a user is under 16, we may suspend and delete the account and associated personal information, subject to limited retention for safety, legal compliance, reporting, disputes, or prevention of repeated underage registration. Contact Info@circle-8.co to report a suspected underage account.
15.3 Children Under 13
The Service is not directed to children under 13. If we obtain actual knowledge that we collected personal information from a child under 13 without legally sufficient parental consent, we will take steps to delete it and address the account, subject to legally permitted retention.
15.4 Teen Data Practices
At launch, we do not sell or share teen personal information for targeted advertising, display third-party ads, collect precise location, use facial recognition, or use User Content for generative-AI training. We use safety, moderation, relationship, and feature signals to operate Cliqx, not to make legal or similarly significant decisions about teens.
16. Safety, Moderation, and Legal Process
16.1 Reports and Enforcement
We review reports and respond as appropriate based on their nature, severity, and available information. We may prioritize urgent safety matters, request additional information, and take proportionate action based on the circumstances.
16.2 Automated Integrity Controls
We may use lightweight automated controls to detect clearly prohibited terms, spam, repetitive abuse, malicious links, invalid uploads, and other platform-integrity risks in usernames, profiles, posts, comments, group names, and other publicly or network-visible content. Private one-to-one messages are not routinely scanned for moderation at launch, but reported messages and reasonably related context may be reviewed.
16.3 Serious Harm and Child Safety
We may disclose and preserve information relating to apparent child sexual exploitation, credible threats, imminent danger, sexual extortion, missing persons, or other serious harm. We may report apparent child sexual exploitation to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and contact law enforcement, emergency responders, or other appropriate authorities as required or permitted by law.
16.4 Legal Process
We assess legal requests for facial validity, scope, jurisdiction, and legal basis. We may preserve information after receiving a valid preservation request or when litigation is reasonably anticipated. We may notify an affected user before disclosure unless prohibited, impracticable, or reasonably likely to create risk of harm, fraud, obstruction, or compromise of an investigation.
17. Third-Party Links and Services
Cliqx may link to external sites or services that process information under their own terms and privacy policies. We are not responsible for their independent practices, including those of Apple, carriers, device and operating-system providers, and app stores.
18. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Policy to reflect changes in the Service, vendors, law, or our practices. We will post the revised Policy and update the effective date. If a change is material, we will provide prominent or advance notice and obtain consent where required. We will not retroactively use previously collected personal information for a materially incompatible purpose without appropriate notice or consent.
19. Contact Us
Privacy Officer
Circle 8, Inc.
8 The Green Ste B, Dover, DE 19901, United States.
Email: Info@circle-8.co
Copyright matters: Info@circle-8.co
For a privacy request, include enough information to identify your account and the right you wish to exercise. Do not send authentication codes, passwords, or highly sensitive content by ordinary email.