thevibe.chat

Privacy Policy

Effective date: July 9, 2026

This policy explains what The Vibe (thevibe.chat) — operated under the trade name “The Vibe” by its founder, Masud Uddin Ahmed, pending formation of a corporate entity — collects, why, and the choices you have. The short version: we collect the minimum needed to run a safe, adults-only club network — and we never touch your location.

1. We never collect your location

The Vibe is built with a strict no-geography rule. We do not request, collect, store, infer, display, or match on GPS coordinates, IP-derived city data, street addresses, or any other location indicators. Friend and club discovery runs exclusively on the interest tags you choose.

2. What we collect

  • Account data: email address and a hashed password (managed by Supabase Auth).
  • Profile data you provide: username, display name, bio, avatar choice, and interest (“vibe”) tags.
  • Verification outcome only: after Didit verifies your ID and liveness, we store a boolean “verified” flag and your age in years. We never receive or store your ID document, photo, legal name, or date of birth in our database.
  • Content: messages you send in clubs, reports you file, votes you cast, and companion designs you create.
  • Billing: subscription status via Stripe. Card details are handled entirely by Stripe and never touch our servers.
  • Push subscriptions: if you opt in, the browser push endpoint needed to deliver notifications.

3. How we use it

  • Operating clubs, chat, governance, and discovery matching;
  • Age-gating and keeping minors off the platform;
  • Generating AI companion replies (recent club messages are sent to Google’s Gemini API to compose responses);
  • Moderating user-created companion designs before publication;
  • Safety review of reports and enforcement of our rules;
  • Processing subscriptions through Stripe.

4. Processors we rely on

  • Supabase — database, authentication, and realtime infrastructure;
  • Didit — identity and age verification (your ID is processed under Didit’s privacy policy; we receive only the outcome);
  • Google (Gemini API) — AI companion message generation;
  • Stripe — payments;
  • Cloudflare — hosting and network delivery.

5. What we don’t do

  • We do not sell or rent your personal information.
  • We do not run third-party advertising or ad trackers.
  • We do not use your private club messages to train AI models.

6. Retention and deletion

Content is kept while your account is active. You may request account deletion at any time by emailing thevibechatapp@gmail.com; we delete your profile, memberships, messages, and push subscriptions within 30 days, except records we must keep for legal, safety, or billing-dispute reasons.

7. Your rights

Depending on where you live (including under the New York SHIELD Act and, where applicable, GDPR/CCPA-style laws), you may have rights to access, correct, export, or delete your data, and to object to certain processing. Contact thevibechatapp@gmail.com to exercise them.

8. Security

Data is protected with encryption in transit, row-level security in our database, secret-scoped server APIs, and least-privilege service keys. No system is perfectly secure; we will notify affected users of any breach as required by law.

9. Children

The Service is not for anyone under 18. We use mandatory document-based age verification, and we delete accounts found to belong to minors.

10. Changes and contact

We will announce material changes in-app or by email 14 days in advance. Questions: thevibechatapp@gmail.com · The Vibe (d/b/a of Masud Uddin Ahmed), United States.