Privacy Policy

We collect only what we need to run a country community, keep it safe, and let you use the features you choose.

• Account and profile — name, email, password hash, handle, bio, photo, home country, optional gender, country community, optional place label, and settings you pick.
• Content you create — posts, comments, messages, reports, and photos you upload.
• Face verification — if you ask for a verified badge, a short live video from your camera (usually about 15 seconds), plus the time and the review result. The video is never shown on your public profile.
• Place labels — optional neighborhood or city text. We do not require GPS.
• Usage and device — session cookies, sign-in tokens, approximate online signals from activity, and basic logs (IP, browser, time) used to run and secure the Service.
• Google sign-in — if you use it, we receive the identifier, name, email, and photo Google allows.

• Create and secure your account.
• Show the country feed, People, search, and topics.
• Run messaging after a connection is accepted, and send notifications.
• Run optional face verification and show a badge.
• Moderate reports and protect safety.
• Keep the product reliable, prevent abuse, and follow the law.

Where GDPR or a similar law applies, we rely on:

• Contract — to provide the Service you signed up for.
• Legitimate interests — safety, fraud prevention, and product operation, balanced against your rights.
• Consent — optional face verification, and any non-essential cookies or marketing we may offer.
• Legal obligation — when we must keep or disclose data.

We do not share face verification recordings with other users.

• Infrastructure partners — hosting, email, media storage, and realtime delivery, under confidentiality duties.
• Other users — what you choose to show: public profile, posts, and messages to accepted connections. A verified badge may be visible. The verification video is not.
• Law and safety — when the law requires it, or to protect people and the platform.

We use essential cookies and local storage to keep you signed in and to protect against cross-site request forgery.

If we run paid ads, we may use Meta Pixel to measure whether a page view or a registration happened. Meta may set its own identifiers. We use this for campaign measurement, not to sell your data.

If we add optional analytics later, we will update this page and ask for consent where the law requires it.

We keep your data while the account is open. After you delete the account from Settings → Profile, we delete or anonymize the profile and content within a reasonable time, except limited records we must keep for law, disputes, or security — for example an abuse case or a backup cycle.

• Rejected verification video is deleted after any appeal window we offer, or when the account is deleted.
• Approved video is stored privately for authorized review and is not shown to other users. We may keep a note that verification happened without keeping the video forever.

We may process data outside the country you live in. When the law requires a safeguard, we use tools such as standard contractual clauses or an equivalent.

Depending on where you live, you may ask to access, correct, delete, restrict, or receive a copy of your personal data, and to object to some processing.

• Most profile fields can be edited in Settings.
• Account deletion is in Settings → Profile.
• For other privacy requests, email privacy@meetlocale.com. We may need to confirm it is you.

We use encryption in transit, access controls, and monitoring. No system is perfectly safe. Use a strong unique password, and turn on two-factor authentication if you use a password account.

Meet Locale is not for anyone under 18, and we do not knowingly collect their data. If you think a child has an account, write to privacy@meetlocale.com and we will delete it.

We may update this policy. The new text will appear here with a new date. If a change is material, we may also tell you in the app or by email.