Privacy Policy
Last updated: November 2026
The short version: Dipity never sells your data, never shows ads, and you control exactly what each connection can see. Dipity never shows your exact live location or what city you are currently in when away from a connection — we only surface HERE (when you are at the same place, within ~250m) and NEAR (when you are in the same metro area, within ~50km) to the specific connections you choose to share those levels with.
1. Who we are
Dipity ("we," "our," or "us") is a social discovery app for iOS. Our website is getdipity.app. You can contact us at privacy@getdipity.app.
2. What data we collect
We collect only what's necessary to make Dipity work:
- Account & card data: Your name, phone number, profile photo, and any contact card fields you choose to add (such as work/personal email, social handles, or birthday) — shared only on the cards you grant to connections.
- Home city: The city you set as your home base.
- Proximity location (optional): When you enable location permissions, Dipity stores your latest coordinates on our secure servers solely to compute coarse proximity tiers for connections you have enabled sharing for: HERE (within ~250m) and NEAR (within ~50km). We never display your exact coordinates, street address, distance, movement speed, or current city name when away from a connection, and we do not store historical GPS route tracks. Stale coordinates older than 72 hours are automatically cleared.
- Travel plans & local plans: Dates, cities, and optional event details for trips and plans you create or import.
- Contacts (optional): When you grant Contacts permission, Dipity hashes your contacts' phone numbers on your device (SHA-256) to find friends already on Dipity. If you add or import contacts into your personal Dipity contact list, the contact names, phone numbers, and notes you choose to save are stored in your private contact book on our servers.
- Walkie & AI assistant messages (optional): Ephemeral voice, video, text, and photo messages you send in Walkie overlap channels, or queries you send to the in-app AI assistant or business card scanner. Walkie messages are automatically purged after 24 hours.
- Google Calendar data (optional): If you explicitly connect Google Calendar, Dipity reads calendar events matching your trip/plan filters and, when you opt in, writes Dipity trips/plans to your selected calendar.
- Push notification tokens: To deliver proximity, plan, and connection alerts.
3. How we use your data
- To let connections you choose know when you are HERE or NEAR
- To send you notifications about travel and plan overlaps with connections, plus your optional Daily Dip summary
- To maintain your account, contact cards, and connections
- To transcribe Walkie voice/video messages, scan business cards, and power the optional Walkie AI assistant when you invoke those features
- To improve app reliability and performance
We never use your data for advertising, and we never sell or share your data with third parties for their commercial purposes.
4. Google API Services Limited Use Disclosure
Dipity's use and transfer to any other app of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. Specifically, Google Calendar data is used solely to import travel/plan events into Dipity and (when requested by you) export your Dipity trips/plans to your Google Calendar. We never use Google user data for advertising or for training generalized AI/ML models, and we never share your Google Calendar refresh tokens or raw calendar events with other users.
5. Your privacy controls
Dipity gives you granular control over what each connection can see:
- Per-connection proximity sharing: Like Find My, each person independently chooses which connections can see when they are NEAR (visiting or in the same home city) or HERE (at the same place) — no one sees your proximity tier unless you enable that level for them
- Incognito mode: Pauses your location, trips, online status, and incoming proximity notifications globally while hiding your own nearby dashboard; connections see that you are in Incognito mode until it expires or you exit
- Hide from specific connections: Silently pauses all proximity and trip sharing with an individual connection (indistinguishable from not sharing)
- Choose which contact card (Work, Personal, Social) and whether to share interests or travel plans per connection
- Mute notifications, mute specific spots from Here alerts, or lock specific contacts behind a passcode
- Block or remove a connection or contact at any time
6. Data storage and security
Your data is stored in Google Firebase (Firestore, Realtime Database, and Cloud Storage), hosted in the United States. We use Firebase Authentication for secure sign-in. Data in transit is encrypted via HTTPS/TLS.
7. Data retention and deletion
You can delete your account at any time from within the Dipity app (Account → Delete Account). When you delete your account, your profile, connections, messages, media, and OAuth tokens are immediately erased from our active databases and storage buckets. Stale proximity coordinates older than 72 hours are automatically purged, and ephemeral Walkie messages and media expire automatically after 24 hours.
8. Children's privacy
Dipity is not intended for users under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.
9. Third-party services
We use the following third-party service providers to operate Dipity features:
- Google Firebase (Google Cloud) — authentication, database, cloud functions, storage, analytics, and push notifications
- Google Gemini AI & Cloud Vision — optional Walkie voice/video transcription, AI persona chat, calendar trip extraction, and business card OCR
- Google Places & Maps APIs — city and venue search and geocoding
- Apple WeatherKit, NOAA/NWS, USGS & NASA POWER — Daily Dip 10-day weather forecasts, severe weather/earthquake alerts, and 5-year historical trip almanacs (queried from our servers using rounded city-level coordinates at ~1.1 km precision, never linked to your identity)
- LiveKit — real-time audio/video transport for live Walkie sessions
- RevenueCat — optional Tip Jar / Supporter in-app purchase processing
- Apple Push Notification Service (APNs) — push notifications on iOS
10. Changes to this policy
We may update this policy from time to time. We'll notify you of significant changes via the app. Continued use of Dipity after changes constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.
11. Contact us
Questions about this policy? Email us at privacy@getdipity.app.
Dipity is owned and operated by SAS42 Productions, LLC.