Privacy Policy

Last updated November 14, 2026

InvitedIn is an invitation-only iPhone app where members chat, join groups and meet at events. It’s operated by INVITEDIN LLC (“we”, “us”). This policy explains what we collect, why, who sees it and the choices you have. Questions go to support@invitedin.app.

1. What we collect

• Account details: your email address, which we confirm and send your sign-in codes to; your phone number, only if you add it; your first and last name, if you give them; confirmation that you’re 18 or older; and who invited you, from the invite link you used.
• Your profile: your display name, your photos, the details you choose to add, and the badges you earn.
• Your face photo and face check, if you verify (section 2).
• Your approximate location, only if you turn it on, and only while you use the app (never in the background). It’s used in two ways:
  • Events near you: your iPhone’s location, rounded to about half a mile, to measure how far events are from you. We keep only the latest one. If you’d rather not share it, you can pick a city instead.
  • Nearby, only if you choose Show me on Nearby: we turn your location into an area (a hexagon on a fixed map grid, about half a mile across in the busiest cities and up to about 4 miles across where fewer people live) and keep only that area and its center, never your exact location. We keep only the latest one, and delete it when you stop showing on Nearby or delete your account. (Area sizes come from population data, not from who uses InvitedIn: Kontur Population, CC BY 4.0.)
• What you share: messages, photos and videos; posts (text, photos and videos, who you sent them to, and whether they disappear after 24 hours), and the reactions and comments on them; events, RSVPs, comments and polls; event check-ins (when you checked in and who scanned your code); the groups you create or join; nominations you make or receive and your votes on them; and the invites you send. A post sent to those nearby keeps only your Nearby area and its center at the time you post, never your exact location.
• Safety records: blocks and reports you make or that are made about you, and the screenshots and screen recordings the app detects (section 6).
• Profile views: when you open another member’s profile, which profile and when (once a day per profile), kept 7 days, unless you turn off Viewer counts.
• How you use the app: your device’s push notification token, the app version, and when and how you use the app’s features, such as when you last opened it.
• App diagnostics: when the app crashes, freezes, starts slowly or a request to our server fails, the app sends a report so we can fix it: Apple’s technical report (where in the app it happened, the app and iOS versions and the iPhone model) and counts of failed requests. These reports aren’t linked to your account and contain nothing you wrote or shared.
• Purchases, if InvitedIn ever sells anything: only Apple’s transaction records. Apple handles payment; we never receive or store your card details.

2. The face check

To become Verified you confirm your email, add a photo of your face and pass a short face check. Here’s exactly what happens and what’s kept:

• Your face photo is checked to make sure it shows exactly one face, then kept in private storage of its own. No member ever sees it. We keep it until you replace it or your account is deleted.
• The live check: your camera captures a few seconds of your face while the screen flashes colors. The capture goes straight to Amazon Web Services’ Face Liveness service, which confirms you’re a live person, not a photo, video or mask, and gives back one still image, which we compare with your face photo.
• What we keep: whether the check passed, two scores (how sure it is that you’re live, and how closely the faces match) and when it happened, until your account is deleted.
• What we never keep: the video, the still image, or any template or measurements of your face. Neither we nor Amazon Web Services save them. We don’t use your face to identify you anywhere else, and we never sell or share it.

3. How we use it

• To run your account, sign you in and keep it secure.
• To show your profile and what you share to the members you share it with, and to deliver messages and notifications.
• To verify members and keep fake accounts out.
• To keep members safe: we check photos and videos automatically (graphic violence and hate symbols are refused everywhere; in profile, group and event photos, posts, Open and Approval groups and comments on Open and Approval events, clearly sexually explicit ones are refused and ones that may be explicit wait for our team to approve them; sexually explicit ones we allow are hidden behind a cover, except in 1:1 chats and Hidden groups; and location data is removed from the photos you share), check every photo and video against known child sexual abuse images with Microsoft’s PhotoDNA (a match is blocked, the account is suspended and it’s reported to NCMEC), look into reports, enforce our Terms of Service and meet our legal duties.
• To understand how the app is used and improve it.

We don’t sell your information, show you ads, or track you across other companies’ apps and websites.

4. Text messages

If you add your phone number and choose to get sign-in codes by text, we text you one-time passcodes when you ask for them; see our SMS Terms. We use your phone number only to send those codes and to secure your account. No mobile information will be shared with third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes. Text messaging originator opt-in data and consent are excluded from every kind of sharing described in this policy and will not be shared with any third parties.

5. Who sees it

• Other members see your display name, whether you’re Verified, your profile photos, the details you choose to show, your badges, and what you share with them. Your name, email address, phone number, face photo and exact location are never shown to members. If you choose Show me on Nearby, members who also show on Nearby (only people in your groups, unless you choose Everyone) see that you’re in your area, the area’s outline on a map, and roughly how far away you are, unless you hide your distance. They never see your exact location, and you show only while you also see them. An event’s place, picked by its host, is shown to everyone who can see the event, with its map point rounded to about a quarter mile.
• Your posts are seen by the people you send them to: My groups only reaches members who share a group with you; Those nearby (only while you show on Nearby) reaches members whose Nearby distance covers your area, never your exact location. Posts show in the Feed for 7 days, and a post set to disappear after 24 hours is gone for everyone after a day. Anyone who can see a post sees its reactions and comments, and can report it or hide it for themselves; blocked members never see each other’s posts.
• Viewed you: members with Viewer counts on can see who opened their profile in the last 6 hours, plus views they haven’t looked at yet from the last 7 days. With Viewer counts off, the profiles you open aren’t recorded (your earlier views are deleted), views of your profile aren’t recorded either, and you don’t see who viewed yours. Views by our team are never counted, and blocked members never see each other’s views.
• Nominations and votes: in a group where members vote on who joins, the group sees a nominee’s profile only after the nominee accepts (or asked to join). Who nominated someone is shown only to the nominee, and votes are blind: no member sees how anyone voted or the counts, only the result. A nominee and members who blocked each other never see each other’s votes.
• InvitedIn on the web (our website app, also run by INVITEDIN LLC): if you were a member there, we check whether your confirmed email belongs to a web member who set up their account, using only a coded fingerprint of it (a keyed hash), never the email itself. If it does, your Verified status, your Founding Member badge and your place in the matching group (Bros, Lotus Boys or the Lobby) carry over. Nothing else is exchanged either way, and deleting your account deletes the match.
• Service providers who run parts of InvitedIn for us, under contract and only for that purpose: Amazon Web Services (hosting, storage, email, text messages, and the face and photo checks) and Apple (push notifications and purchases). Microsoft’s PhotoDNA checks photos and video frames against known child sexual abuse images: we send Microsoft only a digital fingerprint of each photo, never the photo itself.
• The law and safety: when the law requires it, or to protect someone’s safety. We report child sexual abuse material to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), as US law requires.
• A new owner, if INVITEDIN LLC is sold or merged, under this policy.

6. Disappearing media and screenshots

In a 1:1 chat, either person can turn on disappearing messages. Each message then disappears for both people a set time after the other person sees it (1 hour, 24 hours, 3 days or 1 month), and we delete it and its photos or videos from our servers, unless it’s reported: then we keep it, hidden from both people, for review. Unread messages don’t disappear, and turning it off or changing the time only affects new messages.

A photo or video sent to disappear after one or two views is deleted from our servers once it’s been viewed, or after 7 days if it isn’t, unless it’s reported: then we keep it for review and, where the law requires, for reports to the authorities.

When the app detects a screenshot or screen recording, we record when it happened and in which chat or on whose profile, and tell the people whose content was captured. The second one pauses the account until we review it. The app also hides its content in the app switcher and while the screen is recorded, mirrored or shared.

7. How we protect it

Everything is encrypted in transit and at rest. Your name, email and phone number are encrypted again with keys only a few parts of our system can use, and your face photo is kept in storage of its own. Only the people who run InvitedIn can reach your information, and only when they need to. No system is perfectly secure; if a breach affects you, we’ll tell you as the law requires.

8. How long we keep it

We keep your information while you have an account. When you delete it, your profile is hidden right away, and 7 days later (unless you sign back in to keep it) we delete your profile, photos, face photo and face check results, personal details, messages, posts, comments and reactions. Anything left in backups is purged within 30 days after that. We keep only what safety or the law requires, such as reports, blocks and what we’ve reported to NCMEC.

When someone asks for a sign-in code for an email address or phone number that has no account, we send no code, keep that address (encrypted), the reason and when it was tried for 30 days, and may email that address once a day explaining how to join. We never text a phone number about it.

9. Your choices and rights

• Edit your profile and choose which details show.
• Turn Viewer counts on or off (the gear in Nearby, Chats or Profile).
• Accept or decline any nomination to a group (Profile, Groups you have been nominated for).
• Choose who sees each post, set it to disappear after 24 hours, or delete it any time (Profile, then My posts); hide anyone’s post from your Feed.
• Stop text messages by replying STOP; your codes come by email instead.
• Turn notifications off in your iPhone’s Settings.
• Turn location off in your iPhone’s Settings, or pick a city in the Feed instead.
• On Nearby (the gear), choose who sees you (your groups or everyone), hide how far away you are, or turn off Show me on Nearby, which deletes your area at once.
• Delete your account in the app (Profile, then the gear, then Delete account).
• Ask for a copy of your information, or to correct or delete it, at support@invitedin.app. Depending on where you live, you may have further rights under local law, and we honor them.

10. Age

InvitedIn is only for adults 18 or older. If we learn that someone under 18 has an account, we remove it.

11. Where your information is kept

Your information is stored in the United States. If you use InvitedIn from elsewhere, it’s handled there.

12. Changes

If we change this policy, we’ll update the date above and tell you in the app before a significant change applies to you.

13. Contact

INVITEDIN LLC, New York, NY · support@invitedin.app