Draft for legal review

Privacy Notice

Preview draft · October 3, 2026

This draft describes the product’s current data handling. It has not been approved by an attorney and must receive legal review before public launch.

Information collected

Unvillaged collects account details such as email address and password credentials handled by Supabase Auth, your public screen name and profile choices, conversations and messages you submit, Village relationships, blocks, reports, support requests, notification choices, broad location information, Local participation, billing status from Stripe, and identity-verification workflow status. Unvillaged does not store identity document images in its application database.

How information is used

Information is used to provide conversations, private messaging, people discovery, Membership, Local, notifications, support, moderation, security, fraud prevention, and service operations. Unvillaged does not create fake member activity and does not sell personal information.

What other members see

Members see your screen name and information you choose to share. You control whether city, region, or no location appears. Postal codes, email addresses, billing identifiers, identity provider references, private reports, and staff notes are not member-visible. Availability and short status are limited to the intended Village audience and expire.

Service providers

Supabase provides authentication, database, storage, and related infrastructure. Vercel hosts the web application. Stripe processes payments and subscription management. An approved transactional email provider may deliver account and return notifications. These providers process data under their own terms and privacy obligations.

Scout and AI processing

When you use Scout, the text in that Scout chat is sent through Vercel AI Gateway to OpenAI to generate an answer. Google may process the same text as a fallback if the first provider is unavailable. Scout does not receive member profiles, private conversations, reports, billing details, or account records, and Scout chats are not saved as member conversations by Unvillaged.

OpenAI and Google may retain prompts and responses for limited safety and abuse-monitoring periods under their API policies. Do not send Scout passwords, payment information, identity documents, health or legal details, precise location, or anything else you consider sensitive. Use Support when a request requires a person or account-specific help.

Safety, moderation, and legal needs

Reports and operational audit records are used to investigate safety and policy concerns. Information may be preserved or disclosed when reasonably necessary to prevent harm, investigate abuse or fraud, comply with law, or protect the service and its members. Identity verification only confirms workflow status and must not be treated as a safety endorsement.

Retention and deletion

You can delete your account in Settings. The process removes your sign-in, private profile information, private messages, saved relationships, photo records, and active membership data. Public conversation contributions remain with an anonymous deleted-member label to preserve replies and historical context. Minimal hashed deletion receipts, security records, financial records, and legally required records may remain for limited operational or compliance purposes.

Your choices

Settings include profile sharing, message permissions, location visibility, notification preferences, blocked members, photo controls, and account deletion. You can ask for help or raise a privacy concern through Support. Legal review must add a formal privacy contact, jurisdiction-specific rights, and required request timelines before public launch.