Privacy policy

1. Who is responsible for your data

Femby is published by Femcorp (Ben Clavier, EI), the controller of your data. For any question or request, contact us through the “Contact Femby” form (Settings) or femby.support@gmail.com.

2. The data we use, and why

• Account: the email address and identifier sent by Apple or Google when you use “Continue with Apple / Google” (never your password), date of birth (to check you are an adult), language, and when you gave your agreements (terms, rules, sensitive data).
• Profile: first name or nickname, a Femby code (one per person, the same in both spaces, visible only to you and to moderation, which uses it to find your account), description, photos, and the information you choose to add (identity, who you’re looking for, orientation, role, tags, interests, languages, height, weight, body type, star sign, education, family plans, love languages, pets, exercise).
• Profile voice note (Love & Friendship, optional): up to 3 short recordings of your voice (30 seconds each), with an effect if you choose one. Other members can listen to them, and so can moderators (with your real voice). Your voice is never used to recognise you.
• Location: an approximate position, to show distance and nearby profiles. Your exact position is never shown; distance is rounded.
• Messages: texts, photos, GIFs, shared locations, voice messages and private albums you send, to run the messaging.
• Activity: likes, favorites, profile visits, matches, last login and “online” status (which some plans let you hide).
• Safety: reports (with a copy of the reported content), blocks, screenshots detected in private spaces, and your messages to us.
• Subscription: plan and dates. Payment is handled by Apple or Google: we never see your bank details.
• Device: an identifier to send you notifications, if you accept them. The Face ID / fingerprint lock stays on your phone: we never receive your face or fingerprint.

3. Sensitive data

Your gender identity, your orientation and some Casual meetups information may reveal your sex life: this is sensitive data. We only use it with your explicit consent, asked before you fill it in. You can withdraw this consent at any time (Settings → Privacy): this information is then erased.

4. Legal basis

• The contract: creating your account, showing your profile, running matches, messaging and your subscription.
• Your consent: sensitive data, location, notifications and personalized ads. You can withdraw it at any time.
• Our legitimate interest: members’ safety, fighting fake profiles, scams and abuse.
• The law: age verification and requests from the authorities.

5. Who can see your data

• Other members see your public profile in the relevant space. Love & Friendship and Casual meetups are separate: no link is shown between your two profiles.
• Your messages, chat photos and albums are only visible to the people you send them to.
• Our technical providers, only to run the service: data hosting (Supabase, Cloudflare, in the European Union), Apple and Google (purchases, notifications), Google AdMob (advertising, see section 13), Expo (sending notifications), KLIPY (GIF search: only your search words are sent), Sightengine (automatic check of profile photos, not albums or chats), Resend (sending emails), RevenueCat (subscription tracking).
• Moderation, only to handle a report made in the app or sent by e-mail. For a report by e-mail, the person reporting gives their Femby code: moderation then sees the list of people they talked to and opens only the conversation they point to.

We never sell your data.

6. Where your data is

Your data is hosted in the European Union. Some providers (Apple, Google, Expo, Resend, RevenueCat) may process data outside the European Union, with the safeguards required by the GDPR (standard contractual clauses). GIF search (KLIPY) and the map (Google Maps) also go through providers outside the European Union, with the same safeguards.

7. How long

An account unused for 2 years is deleted automatically, with all its content; we warn you with a notification 30 days before (unless a subscription is active). Your data is kept as long as your account exists. If you delete your account, your profile, photos, messages and albums are deleted. A deleted conversation disappears on your side; it is erased for good once both people have deleted it. A message deleted “for everyone” disappears on both sides. In both cases, a hidden copy of the erased texts is kept for 30 days, only for moderation if one person reports the other, then erased. We only keep, when needed: reports and their copies (1 year at most, for members’ safety), proof of your agreements, and what the law requires us to keep. A profile voice note is erased as soon as you delete it, or with your profile.

8. Your rights

You can access, correct, erase and retrieve your data, object to some uses, restrict its use and withdraw your consent. Much of this can be done right in the app (Edit my profile, Settings, Delete my account). For the rest, write to us through the “Contact Femby” form (Settings) or femby.support@gmail.com and choose “My personal data”: we reply within one month. You can also contact your data protection authority (in France: the CNIL, www.cnil.fr). To get a copy of your data: Settings → Download my data.

9. Security

Encrypted connections, encrypted passwords, data access limited by rules checked on our servers, private files opened only through temporary links, screenshots blocked or flagged in private spaces. No system is perfect: we will tell you if an incident affects you.

10. Phone permissions

Femby only asks for a permission when you use the feature: location (nearby profiles and distance), photos (adding photos), camera (taking a photo), microphone (voice messages), notifications (new messages and matches). Each one is optional and can be changed at any time in your phone settings. The microphone is also used to record your profile voice note and to film videos for your private albums.

11. Adults only

Femby is for people aged 18 and over. Accounts belonging to minors are deleted. To check this, we use your date of birth and, if your phone supports it, the age information from Apple or Google: your phone itself asks whether you agree to share it with Femby. We then receive only “18 or over” or “under 18”, never your date of birth. We keep this result, its source (Apple or Google) and its date for as long as your account exists. If your phone indicates that you are under 18, access to Femby is blocked. This information is used only to check your age, never for advertising, profiling or analytics, and it is never sold or passed on. If you refuse to share it, only your date of birth is used.

12. Changes

If this policy changes significantly, we will let you know in the app before the change applies.

13. Advertising

Femby shows two kinds of ads, from Google AdMob: (1) in Love & Friendship, for free accounts only, an ad shown as a profile card, marked “Sponsored”, about every 8 cards (never with Premium or Unlimited); you skip it with a swipe and it only opens if you tap it; (2) optional videos you choose to watch to get something (likes, profiles, “Seen”, boost), on a neutral screen. Google uses an advertising identifier from your phone: personalized ads are only used with your consent, asked through Google’s consent window, which you can change at any time (Settings → Ad choices); on iPhone, the app also asks you. No profile data, messages or sensitive data are ever shared with ad networks. For rewarded videos, Google only confirms to us that a video was watched.

14. Depending on your country

• United States: we do not sell your data or share it for cross-site targeted advertising (except AdMob ads, with your consent). The app does not track anyone across sites, so it does not respond to “Do Not Track” signals. Depending on your state (California, Colorado, Virginia…), you can ask to access, correct or delete your data via the “Contact Femby” form (Settings) or femby.support@gmail.com.
• Canada and Quebec: the person in charge of the protection of personal information is Femcorp (Ben Clavier, EI), reachable via the “Contact Femby” form (Settings) or femby.support@gmail.com. You can complain to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada or to the Commission d’accès à l’information du Québec. Your information is stored outside Québec (in the European Union) and some providers are located elsewhere (section 6); before this transfer, we assessed that it remains adequately protected, in particular under the GDPR.
• Brazil (LGPD): our data protection officer (encarregado) is Femcorp (Ben Clavier, EI), reachable via the “Contact Femby” form (Settings) or femby.support@gmail.com. You can also contact the ANPD.
• Mexico and Latin America: you can exercise your rights of access, rectification, objection and deletion via the “Contact Femby” form (Settings) or femby.support@gmail.com, or contact your country’s data protection authority.
• Australia and New Zealand: you can complain to the OAIC (Australia) or the Privacy Commissioner (New Zealand). Your data is processed outside your country (European Union, United States), with the safeguards described above.
• India (DPDP): our Grievance Officer is Femcorp (Ben Clavier, EI), reachable via the “Contact Femby” form (Settings) or femby.support@gmail.com; we reply within 30 days. You can also contact the Data Protection Board of India.
• Thailand and Singapore (PDPA): our data protection officer (DPO) is Femcorp (Ben Clavier, EI), reachable via the “Contact Femby” form (Settings) or femby.support@gmail.com. You can also contact your country’s data protection authority.
• Switzerland, Israel, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Africa and other countries: you have the rights described in this policy; write to us via the “Contact Femby” form (Settings) or femby.support@gmail.com, or contact your country’s data protection authority.