Scope
This Privacy Policy applies to the Wristy iOS application and the services that support it. Wristy is a social platform for watch-focused profiles, posts, articles, circles, comments, messaging, notifications, and watch-library organization.
This policy is based on the product behavior present in this build of Wristy. It is intended to describe the data that Wristy collects, stores, and uses to operate the service.
Information You Provide
When you create or use a Wristy account, you may provide account identifiers and profile information such as your email-backed sign-in identity, username, display name, profile photo, bio, affiliations, and favorite watches.
You may also provide user content and watch-related data, including posts, captions, comments, article drafts and published articles, direct messages, circle chat messages, announcements, watchbox entries, wish-list entries, worn-history entries, tagged users, and brand requests.
If you operate a brand or organization account, you may also provide an organization name, organization badge photo, and badge design settings such as background style, color palette, and overlay image.
Information Generated Through Use
Wristy stores service metadata needed to operate the product, such as account creation timestamps, follower and following relationships, follow request states, circle memberships, circle request states, direct message request states, post tag request states, organization request states, likes, reactions, comment counts, post counts, article counts, notification settings, push notification tokens, and reminder settings.
Wristy also stores media paths and thumbnails, timestamps, post expiration dates, message read timestamps, username and circle handle change timestamps, feed mirror records, moderation-relevant identifiers, and other operational records required to display content, sync conversations, and maintain features such as comments, tagging, notifications, and watch libraries.
When you use direct messages, Wristy stores thread metadata including participant lists, last message previews, read timestamps per participant, and per-sender bubble styling preferences. Message reactions (emoji and participant mappings) are also stored.
Content Visibility
Some information on Wristy is meant to be shared with other users. Your username, display name, profile photo, profile text, organization badge, posts, articles, comments, circle activity, watch lists you choose to share through the product, and similar social content may be visible inside the service.
Direct messages, message requests, and access-limited features are intended to be shown only to the participants, invited users, or authorized service operators needed to run Wristy, but no internet service can promise absolute confidentiality or perfect security. Do not use Wristy to store information that requires guaranteed secrecy.
How Wristy Uses Information
- Create and manage accounts, usernames, and organization profiles.
- Host and display profiles, posts, comments, circles, messages, and articles.
- Operate watchbox, wishlist, worn-history, and brand-request features.
- Process follow requests, post tag requests, direct message requests, circle join requests, and organization requests.
- Manage post expiration and content lifecycle.
- Send push notifications, friend and circle requests, message alerts, and activity notices.
- Enforce username and circle handle change cooldown periods.
- Prevent abuse, enforce platform rules, investigate misuse, and protect users and the service through moderation tools including bans, account interventions, and forced username changes.
- Maintain app reliability, troubleshoot bugs, and support core product operations.
Service Providers and Infrastructure
Wristy uses third-party infrastructure to operate the service. The code in this build shows use of Google Sign-In, Firebase Authentication, Firestore, Cloud Functions, App Check, and Firebase Messaging. Media uploads are handled through signed URLs backed by Cloudflare R2.
These providers may process data on Wristy's behalf to authenticate users, store records, deliver notifications, and serve uploaded media. Wristy does not state in this policy that your content is sold to data brokers or licensed to third parties for training their AI models.
On-Device Storage
Wristy stores certain data locally on your device for product performance and draft protection. The code in this build stores article drafts and archives locally, caches selected media, stores temporary upload files, keeps limited recent-selection state in user defaults, and saves some post history on-device.
Local device storage helps Wristy preserve drafts and speed up the experience, but content saved on your own device remains subject to the security of that device.
Permissions
Wristy may request access to your camera so you can capture content for posts, access to your photo library so you can choose media, and permission to send notifications so the app can deliver activity and reminder alerts.
If you deny a permission, some features may not work or may work only in a limited way.
Sale of Data and AI Training
Wristy does not describe itself in this build as selling personal information to data brokers.
Wristy also does not describe itself in this policy as licensing user content to third parties for training their generative AI models.
Content Moderation Data
Wristy may store moderation-related fields on your account, including ban status, ban notice messages, intervention status and messages, and flags indicating whether a username change has been required. These fields are maintained by service operators and are read-only from the client.
Reports, moderation decisions, and enforcement records may be retained as long as needed to operate the service and enforce rules.
Retention and Deletion
Wristy keeps account records, user content, and operational logs for as long as reasonably needed to run the service, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce rules, and preserve backups and security records. Posts that reach their expiration date may be removed automatically, but cached or backed-up copies may persist for a limited period.
Deleting content or an account may not instantly remove every cached, backed-up, or locally stored copy. Some information may persist for a limited period in backups, logs, or on devices where drafts or media were saved.
Security
Wristy uses technical and organizational measures that are intended to protect user data, but no system is perfectly secure. Networked services can experience bugs, unauthorized attempts, service-provider issues, or configuration errors.
You are responsible for protecting access to your own device and account credentials.
Children and Eligibility
Wristy is not intended for children under 13. If local law requires a higher minimum age, that higher age applies.
If you believe a child has used the service in a way that violates this policy, use the support contact provided for Wristy to request review.
Policy Changes
Wristy may update this Privacy Policy as the product changes. If a material update requires a new acceptance flow, Wristy may ask you to review and accept an updated version before continuing to use affected features.