privacy policy
Circle is a social network, designed to need less of your data. This Privacy Policy explains what Company-1-Inc (“Company-1-Inc,” “Circle,” “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 Circle 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 Circle.
• 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 Circle—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.