FAMD · MADE BY PEEL LLC
Privacy Policy
Famd helps adults discover and connect with other families in their area. We designed Famd to collect only the information reasonably necessary to provide the service.
1. Who may use Famd
Famd is intended only for individuals who are 18 years of age or older and located in the United States. Children may not create Famd accounts. Adults provide any limited child information themselves; it is not collected directly from children.
2. Information we collect
Depending on the features you use, we may collect account information from Apple or Google such as your name, email address, authentication identifiers, and information needed to maintain and secure your account. We do not receive your Apple or Google password.
You may provide adult profile information such as your first name, age or age range, general household information, city, ZIP code, neighborhood or general area, interests, activities, work status, how long you have lived in an area, an abstract family avatar, and other information you choose to provide.
- For children: age, gender, and interests only. Famd does not require children’s names or photographs.
- For location: approximate device location with permission, or manual city and ZIP entry. Famd does not require precise GPS for core matching and does not intend to show a home address or exact real-time location.
- For matches: an optional adult profile photo or last name that you choose when to share.
- For chat: text messages needed to provide messaging. Famd chat does not support sending photos or files.
3. How we use information
- Create and maintain accounts; provide family discovery, matching, and messaging; provide approximate geographic matching; and personalize your experience.
- Provide support, investigate reports, prevent fraud, harassment, abuse, and misuse, and enforce our Terms and Community Guidelines.
- Maintain and improve Famd, analyze reliability and performance, comply with legal obligations, and protect Famd, our users, and others.
4. How matching works
Famd may use information about you, your family, your general location, your interests, and children’s ages, genders, and interests to help identify families who may be compatible. Certain details may be used privately for matching or filtering without being displayed publicly. Famd does not guarantee compatibility, friendship, identity, safety, or the accuracy of information provided by another user.
5. How information is shared
Information on your profile may be visible to other users as part of discovery and matching. An adult photo or last name may only become available after a match or when you affirmatively choose to share it. Text sent through Famd chat is visible to the recipient.
Service providers may process information on our behalf for cloud database, authentication and storage, analytics, crash reporting, error monitoring, push notifications, infrastructure, and security. We may disclose information for legal, safety, security, fraud-prevention, or emergency reasons, and as part of a business transfer when permitted by law.
6. Advertising and sale of personal information
Famd does not contain third-party behavioral advertising. Famd does not sell personal information to advertisers. If practices materially change, we will update this policy and provide disclosures or choices required by law.
7. Retention and deletion
We retain information as reasonably necessary to provide Famd and meet legitimate legal, security, fraud-prevention, and safety needs. When you delete your account, we delete or de-identify associated personal information except information we reasonably need to retain. Limited information may remain temporarily in encrypted backups until overwritten through the normal backup lifecycle.
You can delete from account settings or use the instructions at famd.app/delete-account.
8. Your choices
- Edit your profile and control optional information.
- Choose whether to reveal certain information to matches, use manual location entry, and control push notifications.
- Unmatch, block, or report users, and delete your Famd account.
9. Children’s privacy and security
Famd is not directed to children. We ask adults not to provide children’s full names, contact information, or unnecessary identifying information. We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed to protect information, but no service can guarantee absolute security.
10. Contact us
Questions, privacy concerns, or requests may be sent to privacy@famd.app. General support is available at support@famd.app.