Privacy Notice

Account information can include name, email, authentication identifiers, role, and self-selected village. Optional community profiles can include photo, bio, profession, business, skills, availability, social links, visibility choices, blocked users, and temporary named-venue check-ins.

The active beta can hold account details, private app feedback, resident-submitted business listings and reviews, and interactions required to view community information. Partner inquiries and suggestions are stored privately for the admin team. Signup records include the email/SMS consent wording and timestamp; SMS delivery is not active. Preserved prototype records may also include posts, comments, messages, connection requests, help requests, gig posts, saved items, volunteer logs, and safety reports, but those features are paused and are not active launch services. The Base44 hosting platform may also process technical logs, device/browser information, security events, and service metadata.

Information is used to authenticate accounts, present available community information, receive private beta feedback, protect the service, troubleshoot, and improve reliability. Partner inquiry and suggestion notifications are sent when the admin recipient is configured. The launch candidate does not offer an active notification inbox, messaging service, or official HOA records or payment service.

Member profiles default to private. Members choose whether to enable their profile and which individual fields to display to signed-in members. Login email, communication preferences, private SMS number and residency-review records are not included in shared profiles. Profile images use private storage with short-lived links; a person who can view an image may still save a copy. Removing or hiding an image stops new shared links; existing links can work for up to one minute.

Earlier CommunityProfile records, Network Nearby and direct messaging remain separate paused features. The new member profile does not automatically publish information from those earlier records.

Email codes confirm access to an email account. A residency declaration does not grant verified-resident status. Members may submit a redacted utility bill, HOA statement, or driver’s license through Verify Residency. The photo and submitted address are private to administrators. Cover unrelated account numbers, balances, birth dates, license numbers and barcodes before uploading.

After an administrator reviews the name, address and LARMAC boundary, the app deletes the active proof object before granting approval. Rejected proof is also deleted when the decision is recorded. The address, decision, reviewer, review time and audit record remain. This does not promise immediate deletion from provider backups. If you previously sent proof by email, those documents are not automatically erased by the upload workflow. Use private Feedback for a review correction, appeal, or deletion request.

Members choose email or SMS community updates during account setup and can later withdraw either or both in Account. Signup choices are temporarily held in this browser tab until email verification and sign-in. They are cleared when signup finishes or you sign out, and drafts older than 48 hours are rejected and cleared when reopened. The app then records these choices separately from field visibility. SMS delivery is not active yet. Email-verification and account-security messages are separate from community updates.

The Bubble newsletter is a separate, optional email subscription. The signup form is part of this app: submitting it stores your email address, and a first name if you add one, in The Bubble's own records so we can send the Thursday edition. No outside newsletter provider receives the address from this form, and we never sell it. Newsletter signup does not create a community account or opt you into SMS. The local guide is open to everyone, and each newsletter includes an unsubscribe link.

Launch payment processing is disabled. The app may link to official agencies, member websites, social networks, or other third parties; their privacy practices apply after you leave The Bubble. Future Stripe sponsorship or paid-listing processing will require an updated notice before activation.

Members can edit their account profile, remove its image, and change individual display choices in Account. Other paused content features remain unavailable. Signed-in members can submit an access, correction, or deletion request through Feedback, but no response time is promised. Some records may need limited retention for security, abuse prevention, dispute handling, or legal obligations. A documented retention schedule, deletion SLA, backup-deletion process, named request owner, and public privacy contact are not yet finalized and remain launch gates.

The launch beta is intended for adults and is not designed to collect children's personal information. Do not upload child identity, schedules, precise location, or access credentials. Reasonable safeguards are being developed, but no online service can guarantee absolute security; cross-account authorization, monitoring, backup, and incident-response evidence remain required before public launch.