This policy explains what information Wylde collects, how we use it, and the choices you have. Wylde is a movement-based introduction app for adults 18+, operated by Tosemum Holdings LLC, Arizona, USA. We do not sell your personal information and we do not show ads.
1. Information we collect
- Account: email address and a password (stored by our authentication provider in hashed form — we never see your plain password), and one-time verification codes sent by email.
- Profile: display name, date of birth (used to compute and show your age; your birth date itself is never shown to other users and cannot be changed after signup), photos, bio, activity interests, intensity level, availability, and city.
- Location: if you grant permission, your device's location; otherwise the city you enter, converted to coordinates. See Section 3 for how location is protected.
- Activity on Wylde: likes, intros, matches, messages, blocks, and reports you send or receive.
- Device & technical data: basic app and device information needed to run the service (e.g., session tokens, error logs).
2. How we use information
- To operate the core service: showing profiles, computing compatibility, delivering intros and messages, and showing approximate distance;
- To keep users safe: processing blocks and reports, enforcing our Terms, preventing abuse;
- To communicate with you: transactional emails such as password-reset codes (we do not send marketing email without your consent);
- To maintain and improve the app, including fixing errors.
3. How your location is protected
Wylde is built so other users can never see your exact location:
- Other users only ever see an approximate distance band (for example, "2–5 mi") — never coordinates, never an exact distance.
- Distances are computed from grid-snapped points (roughly 1.4-mile cells), so even the band is based on an approximation of your position.
- Positions shown on the radar/map view are schematic and decorative — they do not reveal your real direction or exact location.
4. Message visibility (how intros work)
When you send someone an intro before matching, they can read your messages. Their replies are not visible to you until they match you back — and the app tells both sides this. Once matched, both of you see the full conversation. If either person deletes their account, the match closes; messages already delivered remain visible to the other person, no longer linked to your identity (see Section 6).
5. Who we share information with
We share personal information only with the service providers that run Wylde, and only so they can provide their service to us:
- Supabase — database, authentication, and encrypted file storage (photos are stored in a private bucket and served through short-lived signed links);
- Resend — transactional email delivery (e.g., password-reset codes);
- Expo / EAS — app build and update infrastructure;
- Apple / Google — app distribution and, if purchases are ever added, payment processing.
We may also disclose information if required by law, to enforce our Terms, or to protect the safety of users or the public. We do not sell personal information and have not sold it. If Wylde is ever acquired or merged, user information may transfer as part of that transaction under this policy's protections.
6. Retention and deletion
- While your account is active, we keep the information above to run the service.
- When you delete your account (Settings → Account → Delete account), your profile is anonymized and your photos are deleted: your name, bio, birth date, location, and activities are removed, and you disappear from Discover, the map, and search. Messages you already sent remain in the other person's conversation history, no longer linked to an identifiable profile.
- Safety exception: if one of your photos is attached to an open safety report, it is retained until that report is resolved, then deleted.
- Backups and logs are retained for a limited period as part of routine database operations, then cycle out.
7. Your rights and choices
- Access and correction: you can view and edit your profile in the app at any time (photos, name, bio, activities, availability, radius).
- Deletion: the in-app delete-account flow removes your data as described in Section 6, without needing to email anyone.
- Location permission: you can decline or revoke location access in your device settings; the app will use your entered city instead, and distance features become approximate.
- State privacy rights: depending on where you live (for example, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Texas, Virginia and other states with consumer privacy laws), you may have rights to access, delete, correct, or obtain a copy of your personal information, and to non-discrimination for exercising them. You can exercise these in-app as above or by emailing us. We do not sell personal information or share it for cross-context behavioral advertising, so there is nothing to opt out of on that front.
8. Security
We use industry-standard measures appropriate to a service of our size: passwords are hashed by our authentication provider; database access is protected by row-level security rules; photos live in a private bucket accessible only through short-lived signed links; and location is only ever exposed to other users as approximate bands. No system is perfectly secure, but the service is designed so that even our own database queries cannot reveal your exact location to another user.
9. Age
Wylde is for adults 18 and older. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 18. If we learn an account belongs to someone under 18, we will delete it. If you believe a minor is using Wylde, contact us at the address below.
10. International users
Wylde is operated from the United States and information is processed in the United States. If you use Wylde from outside the U.S., you understand your information will be transferred to and processed in the U.S. If we expand to regions with additional requirements (such as the EEA/UK), we will update this policy and our practices accordingly before doing so.
11. Changes to this policy
We may update this policy. If changes are material, we will notify you in the app or by email before they take effect. The effective date at the top always reflects the current version.
12. Contact
Tosemum Holdings LLC · Arizona, USA · privacy@wyldeapp.com