Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 12, 2025

Vibers respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains what personal data we collect, how we use it, and what your rights are under GDPR.

📊 Data We Collect

1. Registration Data

  • • First and last name
  • • Email
  • • Password (encrypted)
  • • Date of birth
  • • Profile photo (optional)

2. Profile Data

  • • Bio and description
  • • Interests and hobbies
  • • Languages spoken
  • • Social media links (optional)
  • • Occupation (optional)

3. Geolocation Data

  • Real-time location: Continuous background tracking (if authorized)
  • Smart update: Only if you move at least 500 meters
  • Precise GPS coordinates: Saved in database for distance calculation
  • Public city: Other users only see the city, never your exact location
  • Usage: Smart event matching, distance sorting, personalized suggestions
  • Control: You can disable it anytime from browser settings

ℹ️ Smart Tracking: We use watchPosition() to automatically update your location. Optimized to save battery: updates only if you move significantly (>500m) and 5-minute GPS cache.

4. Usage Data

  • • Events created and participations
  • • Event chat messages
  • • Reviews and ratings
  • • Activity statistics

🤖 5. Data for Artificial Intelligence (Vibers AI)

To provide you with personalized suggestions, we collect and analyze:

  • Events viewed: Which events you opened and for how long
  • Discarded events: Events you rejected and the reason (if provided)
  • Behavioral patterns: Preferred categories, price range, location type
  • Participation history: Events you attended with details (title, description, category, price)
  • Saved events: Events you saved for later

🔒 How it works:

  • • Your data is analyzed by AI models (Anthropic Claude, OpenAI) via Vercel AI Gateway
  • • Analysis happens in real-time and no sensitive data is saved on AI servers
  • • Suggestions are generated based on your behavioral patterns
  • • The more you use Vibers, the more accurate and personalized the suggestions become
  • • You can disable AI suggestions anytime from settings

ℹ️ AI Privacy: Data sent to AI providers (Anthropic, OpenAI) is anonymous and doesn't include personally identifiable information. It's only used to generate suggestions and is not stored or used for AI model training.

🎯 How We Use Data

  • Provide the service: Account management, event creation, user matching
  • Improve experience: Personalized suggestions, smart matching
  • Communications: Event notifications, updates, support
  • Security: Fraud prevention, content moderation
  • Analytics: Anonymous statistics to improve the service

🔒 How We Protect Data

  • Encryption: Passwords and sensitive data encrypted
  • HTTPS: Secure connections
  • Secure database: Limited and monitored access
  • Regular backups: Protection against data loss
  • Moderation: Reporting and ban system

👥 Data Sharing

Your data is shared only in these cases:

  • Other users: Only public profile data (name, photo, bio)
  • Event participants: Information necessary for organization
  • Third-party services: Analytics (Google), Maps (OpenStreetMap), AI (Vercel, Anthropic, OpenAI)
  • Legal obligations: Only if required by competent authorities

⚠️ We never sell your data to third parties for commercial purposes.

⚖️ Your Rights (GDPR)

You have the right to:

  • Access: Request a copy of your data
  • Rectification: Correct inaccurate data
  • Erasure: Delete your account and data
  • Portability: Export your data
  • Objection: Object to specific processing
  • Restriction: Limit processing

To exercise these rights, contact us at: privacy@vibers.wtf

⏱️ Data Retention

  • Active account: Until account deletion
  • Deleted account: 30 days (backup), then permanent deletion
  • Chat messages: Until event completion + 90 days
  • Security logs: 12 months

👶 Minors

Vibers is reserved for users at least 16 years old. We do not knowingly collect data from minors under 16. If we discover that a minor under 16 has provided data, we will delete it immediately.

🔄 Policy Changes

We may update this Privacy Policy. We will notify you via email for substantial changes. Continuing to use Vibers after changes means you accept them.

📧 Contact

For privacy questions: