Privacy Policy

Blipze, operated by Vadlamudi Vamshi Krishna (“Blipze”, “we”, “us”), is a social platform for people, Blips, polls, groups, topics and nearby conversations.

• Account data: email, authentication data, display name, username and avatar.
• Social content: Blips, images, polls, comments, groups and reports sent to social-content moderation.
• Activity: follows, reactions, votes, memberships, notifications and timestamps.
• Optional view counting: after you allow it and service counting is enabled, Blipze links eligible viewing activity to your signed-in account to help creators understand their reach through totals and unique-account counts. Blip appearances can include scrolls, repeats and your own views; eligible Flash openings can also contribute. Signed-out, undecided and declined accounts do not contribute optional views. This choice does not grant permission to disclose a named viewer list, and we do not use it for advertising or cross-site tracking.
• Preferences: language and selected topics. Nearby location is not saved.
• Private profile data: any address or verification details previously provided remain access-controlled and are not part of the public profile.

Your username, display name, avatar, Blips, public comments, public groups and aggregate social counts may be visible to others. Email, phone, residential address, authentication identifiers, exact location, moderation notes and private preferences are not exposed in the public profile or public search.

Nearby is opt-in. If you choose to use your current location, the browser supplies coordinates for that request. Blipze compares them with public locality centroids on the server and does not store or display your device coordinates or save Nearby to your profile, cookies, or browser storage. You control the browser permission and can decline it. Topic preferences are private to your account, with a limited browser fallback for signed-out use.

Supabase Auth handles email/password and Google sign-in. Google sign-in uses the standard basic identity scopes needed to authenticate and create your profile; Blipze does not request Gmail, Drive, Contacts or Calendar access and never receives your Google password. Essential cookies and browser storage keep sessions and preferences working.

We use information to:

• create and secure accounts;
• publish and personalise the social experience;
• deliver Following, topic, group and Nearby feeds;
• operate moderation, safety and abuse-prevention controls; and
• respond to feedback and improve reliability.

We do not sell personal information or share it for advertising.

Blipze uses Supabase for authentication, database and file storage; Vercel for hosting and delivery; Google when you choose Google sign-in; and a configured geocoding provider for coarse Nearby lookup. Each provider processes the limited data needed to deliver its service under its own terms and privacy policy.

When you allow Blip view counting and service counting is enabled, private unique-account associations remain while the Blip and account exist. Temporary impression receipts and request budgets expire after 24 hours and are removed by bounded maintenance with a 48-hour target. Permanent deletion removes linked records; non-identifying historical totals may remain. This feature does not store IP addresses, location or device fingerprints in its counting tables. Offline, restricted or failed requests may be missed. Hosting and security logs are separate and may process network information.

Choose or withdraw optional counting in View privacy. After an off choice saves, your future activity does not add optional views or account associations, and view totals on your own and others’ Blips and Flashes are hidden for your account behind “Views off”. Other people who allow counting can still add views to your content. Allowing later does not add earlier activity. Switching off does not erase earlier committed records or historical totals and does not delete your account. You can request access to or removal of your private view-count associations through support@blipze.com; we verify your identity first. Erasure preserves your saved off preference. If you later allow measurement and view a Blip after erasure, your account can be counted anew. These are historical impression/account totals, not verified people or an exact lifetime census; failed or excluded appearances may be missed.

Flash one-view delivery, access checks and expiry operate independently of optional analytics. Flashes are available for 24 hours; their delivery records follow the existing cleanup lifecycle. Opening a Flash does not, by itself, grant optional counting or named-viewer disclosure permission. A saved Allow choice cannot activate service counting while its separate global control is off.

We use transport encryption, access controls and database row-level security. No online service can guarantee absolute security. We keep data while an account is active and as reasonably needed to operate the service, preserve conversation and moderation integrity, prevent abuse, and meet legal obligations.

The former public civic-reporting product has been retired. Its issue records, images, lifecycle history and moderation evidence remain preserved in access-controlled backend storage for integrity and operational reasons, but they are no longer exposed as public Blipze routes, search results, profile tabs or notifications. Previously supplied civic-report coordinates may exist in those historical records; this is separate from the coarse-only Blipze Nearby feature.

• Update your public profile and topic preferences in the app.
• Manage content and social relationships using the controls provided.
• Allow or stop optional Blip/Flash view counting and choose whether to see view totals in View privacy.
• Withdraw browser location permission in your browser settings.
• Revoke Google access in your Google Account settings.
• Request correction or deletion by emailing support@blipze.com. Requests are subject to identity verification, legal obligations, safety, moderation and record-integrity needs.

Blipze is intended for people aged 18 and above. Contact us if you believe a child’s personal information was submitted without appropriate involvement from a parent or guardian.

Questions about privacy? Email support@blipze.com. You can also read our Terms of Service and Cookie Use notice.