Version 2026-08-09

Solmeera Privacy Policy

Effective August 9, 2026

Solmeera is a faith-centered dating service for Christian adults. This Privacy Policy explains, in plain language, what information we collect, how we use it, who we share it with, and the choices you have.

If anything here is unclear or you'd like a copy of your data, please email privacy@solmeera.com.

1. Who we are

Solmeera is published by Solmeera LLC, a Massachusetts limited liability company. Our address is:

Solmeera LLC
82 Wendell Avenue, Suite 100
Pittsfield, MA 01201

For privacy-specific questions: privacy@solmeera.com.
For general support: support@solmeera.com.

2. The information we collect

When you sign up and use Solmeera, we collect the following.

You give us, when you create an account and your profile:

• Your email address and password. Passwords are hashed with bcrypt; we never see them in clear text.
• Your first name and last name. You choose whether matches see your first name only or your full name.
• Your date of birth. We use it only to confirm you're 18 or older and to compute your age. We don't show your date of birth to anyone, and we don't return it from our servers to the app.
• Your gender (man, woman, or another option), and the gender(s) you'd like to be matched with.
• Your Christian denomination (Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant, or "Respectful of faith") and how often you attend services.
• Your marital status, whether you have children, and your hopes about children.
• Up to six profile photos.
• Short written reflections — your bio (up to 600 characters) and answers to three faith and values prompts.
• Your phone number, if and when you choose to verify your phone. We use it only to confirm you're a real person reachable at a real mobile number, and to keep one person from running many accounts. We store your number in a scrambled (hashed) form plus the last four digits for display — never the full number in readable form.
• Your approximate location. We never store your exact GPS coordinates. Your phone converts your location, on your phone, into a wider area (a "geohash") and then offsets that area randomly within a privacy radius before sending anything to us. Other users see your distance as a range, never as a precise mile.
• Your general location within the United States. You confirm you're in the U.S. before you create an account, and you choose which U.S. state you're in from within the app. We use this to keep Solmeera U.S.-only for now and to offer matching within your state. This is a coarse location you tell us directly — we don't work it out from your GPS or your IP address.

We capture automatically, when you use the app:

• A device push token, so we can deliver notifications when you ask us to.
• Crash and error data through Sentry. Crash reports contain technical information — stack traces, device model, operating system version — never your messages, photos, or profile content. This helps us fix bugs.
• Activity signals — when you were last active, when you swipe, like, pass, match, or message someone, and when you report or block another user. We use these to keep matching working, to keep your feed fresh, and to improve safety. We never include the content of your messages or your bio in these signals — only the structural facts (e.g., "user A liked user B at time T").
• Your IP address and user-agent string each time you give or withdraw a consent — for example, when you accept these terms, accept the Privacy Policy, change a privacy setting, or enable or disable same-gender matching. This is part of our consent record (see Section 6).
• When you verify your phone, the date and time you agreed to receive the verification text, and the IP address you agreed from. This is part of our consent record (see Section 6).

We do not collect, ever:

• Your contacts.
• Your background location. We don't track you when the app is closed.
• Your browsing history outside Solmeera.
• Biometric data. Solmeera does not collect or process biometric identifiers of any kind.
• Medical records, fitness data, or financial account information. We don't believe anything we collect is "consumer health data," but some state laws define that term broadly — our Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy at solmeera.com/health-data-privacy explains your rights in those states.
• Sensor data (accelerometer, gyroscope, microphone audio) beyond what's strictly required to render the app.

3. Sensitive personal information (religion and orientation)

To match you with other Christians, we ask about your faith and (optionally) the gender(s) you'd like to be matched with. Several US state privacy laws — including those of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, Texas, Oregon, and a growing number of other states — treat religion and sexual orientation as Sensitive Personal Information. We treat it as sensitive everywhere, regardless of where you live.

We collect and use this information only with your explicit consent, and only for the purposes you signed up for: finding you compatible matches, showing your profile to people you've chosen to be visible to, and keeping the community safe.

When you create your account, you accept this Privacy Policy by ticking a box. We log that consent — the time, your IP address, your user agent, and the version of this policy — so we can prove you gave it. You can view your own consent history any time in Settings → Privacy & Legal → My consent history.

If you choose to be matched with someone of the same gender, we ask you for separate, explicit consent first. We treat that preference as Sensitive Personal Information and process it only to suggest matches. You can change your matching preference, or withdraw consent, at any time in Settings → Matching Preferences.

We do not sell your sensitive personal information. We do not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising. We don't use it to infer anything about you beyond the matching service you asked us to provide. Because we use Sensitive Personal Information only to deliver the service you requested, the California right to "Limit the Use" of Sensitive Personal Information doesn't change anything we do — we already process this information for that purpose only.

Washington and Nevada have consumer-health-data laws written broadly enough that some everyday information can arguably fall within them. We don't believe anything we collect is consumer health data, but we publish a separate Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy at solmeera.com/health-data-privacy describing your rights under those laws.

4. How we use your information

We use the information we collect to:

• Match you with other Christians who are compatible with your faith, age range, location, and preferences.
• Show your profile to other users who are inside your stated preferences and whose preferences include you.
• Let you message your matches and receive replies.
• Help you write a stronger profile, when you ask. When you tap "Suggest," you're choosing to send a short prompt — including your demographic context and your current bio — to Anthropic Claude to generate a suggestion. Anthropic does not train on this data. The suggestion is held in your phone's memory until you tap "Save" to add it to your profile. We don't post anything without you accepting it.
• Send you push notifications you've opted into — for new matches and new messages, separately toggleable.
• Understand how the app is used, if you opt in to optional analytics. Analytics is off by default — nothing is collected unless you turn it on in Settings. If you do, we see which screens you visit and key actions you take, tied to your account ID. Your messages, photos, faith path, and matching preferences are never included, and you can turn it off again at any time.
• Screen photos for safety before they appear on your profile, using AWS Rekognition automated content moderation. Every photo is checked before it's published. A photo flagged for human review stays hidden until a person looks at it — there is no fixed timeline for that review. Photo screening is limited to 20 checks per account per day; reaching that limit is not a rejection — your remaining photos are simply screened the next day. We have opted out of AWS using our content to develop or improve AI services, so photos sent for screening are not used to train Amazon's models; AWS processes each photo only as needed to return the screening result.
• Verify your phone number, when you choose to verify, so we can keep Solmeera free of fakes and bots. We send a one-time code by text and confirm your number is a real mobile line. We use a service provider, Twilio, to send that text. We never share your phone number or mobile opt-in information with third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes — we share it only with Twilio, solely to deliver your verification code.
• Process subscriptions through Apple App Store and Google Play.
• Keep the community safe by reviewing reports and removing accounts that violate our Terms of Service.
• Respond to your support requests.
• Comply with legal obligations.

We do not run ads in Solmeera. We do not engage in cross-app tracking — we don't ask for permission to track you across other companies' apps and websites because we don't track you that way. We do not sell your personal information to data brokers, marketers, or anyone else, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising.

5. Who we share your information with

We share information only with the service providers below, and only as necessary for them to do their job.

In addition, we may share information when we are required by law (a valid subpoena, court order, or legal process), to enforce our Terms of Service or this Privacy Policy, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of our users or the public — including reporting apparent child sexual abuse material to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, as we are required to do under federal law (18 U.S.C. § 2258A).

6. Your choices and rights

Access, correction, and deletion. You can see and edit your profile any time inside the app. To delete your account and all the information associated with it, go to Settings → Account → Delete Account, type "DELETE" to confirm, and tap delete. Your data — your profile, photos, messages, matches, swipes, activity signals, and consent history — is deleted from our live systems immediately, and the process typically completes within minutes. A few copies can outlive that moment in places outside our live systems: our image delivery network clears its copies within about a minute, but because photos are served with long-lived caching for performance, a web browser you used may keep a cached copy until it expires it, and the devices of people who already viewed your photos can keep cached copies for a while (roughly up to a week on iOS; on Android, until the device clears space). The safety-related retention described in Section 7 also applies — for example, a record that an account was banned for abuse, the legally required preservation of apparent child-exploitation evidence, and a minimal record that your deletion was carried out.

A note about subscriptions. Deleting your Solmeera account does not automatically cancel an active App Store or Google Play subscription. Subscriptions are billed by Apple and Google, not by us. To stop being billed, cancel the subscription in your device's Settings before deleting your account.

Web-based deletion. If you've already deleted the app, you can request deletion at solmeera.com/delete-account.

Withdraw consent. You can change your consent any time:

• For your faith path — clear it while editing your Profile. While it's cleared, your profile is paused and doesn't appear in matching; re-select a path any time to resume.
• For matching with a particular gender — change your selection in Settings → Matching Preferences.
• For optional analytics — turn the toggle off in Settings; collection stops immediately.
• For our overall data processing — sign out (which forces re-acceptance the next time you sign in) or delete your account. Because telling us who you'd like to meet is intrinsic to a matching service, fully withdrawing consent to that collection means deleting your account.
• For consumer-health-data rights in Washington and Nevada — see our Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy at solmeera.com/health-data-privacy.

See your consent history. Settings → Privacy & Legal → My consent history.

State-law privacy rights. Depending on where you live, you may have the right to know what personal information we have about you, to correct it, to delete it, to opt out of any "sale" or "sharing" (we don't do either), and to limit the use of Sensitive Personal Information (we already restrict it to the matching service). To exercise these rights, email privacy@solmeera.com from the email address associated with your account. We respond within the timeframe required by your state's law (45 days in California; similar in most other states). We don't discriminate against you for exercising your rights.

We try to verify that requests are coming from you (and not from someone trying to access your data). If we can't verify a request, we'll let you know and explain what we need.

7. Data retention and account deletion

We keep your account information for as long as you have an account. When you delete your account, we delete:

• Your profile, photos, bio, and prompt answers
• Your matches, messages, and swipe history
• Your activity signals (impressions, views, likes, passes, matches, reports, blocks)
• Your push tokens
• Your AI-usage records
• Your subscription event history and entitlement record
• Your consent history
• Your phone verification information (the hashed number, the last four digits, and the date you verified)

We may retain limited records longer when we have a legal reason — for example, a record that an account was reported and banned for safety violations, or transaction records we're required to keep for tax or accounting.

Photo moderation records. Each time a photo is screened, we keep an audit record containing the automated results returned for each generated size of the photo (the full list of labels and confidence scores, including ones that didn't trigger anything), the version of the moderation model that produced them, and the photo's storage path. These records exist so we can review moderation decisions and handle appeals. They are kept for as long as your account exists and are deleted with your account. A photo that is rejected, or that is flagged as apparent child sexual abuse material, is moved to a restricted quarantine store rather than published — see the preservation paragraph below for the one case that outlives your account.

Phone verification records. To prevent fraud and stop banned users from returning, we keep a limited, scrambled record that a phone was used to verify an account. When you delete your account, the readable parts (the last four digits and verification date) are removed; a non-reversible, scrambled marker may be retained for fraud prevention. This marker cannot be turned back into your phone number.

Child-safety evidence preservation. If automated screening or human review identifies apparent child sexual abuse material, federal law (18 U.S.C. § 2258A, as amended by the REPORT Act) requires us to report it to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and to preserve the related evidence. That evidence — the content, the moderation results, and the account and storage identifiers needed to make the report meaningful — is held in a restricted store that only our safety processes can access, kept for one year, and then purged. It survives account deletion. This is the one case where deleting your account does not delete everything.

Deletion record. When you delete your account, we keep a minimal record that the deletion happened and was verified: the account identifier (which no longer maps to any profile once your data is gone), the date, whether the deletion was self-service or admin-assisted, counts of the storage objects removed, and whether we verified your storage was left empty. We keep this record for two years — so we can prove your deletion was carried out if you or a regulator ever ask — and then remove it.

Backups. Standard database backups age out on a rolling basis — typically within about a week — so deleted information also drops out of backups as they rotate. Deleted information no longer appears in the live system.

8. Children

Solmeera is intended only for adults aged 18 and older. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 18, and we don't allow accounts for users under 18.

If you believe a minor has registered for Solmeera, or that an image or profile of a minor appears on Solmeera, please email safety@solmeera.com immediately with enough information for us to find the account. We will remove it without delay and, where appropriate, report to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) and to law enforcement.

9. Security

We protect your information using a layered approach:

• All traffic between your device and our servers uses TLS encryption.
• Data is encrypted at rest in our database and storage.
• Passwords are hashed with bcrypt. We never see them in clear text.
• Every database table uses Row-Level Security so that, even if a query were misrouted, you can read and write only your own information.
• Sensitive operations — such as granting subscription tier or moderating photos — happen only on our server, never on your device, and require server-side credentials we never embed in the app.
• Our crash and error monitoring (Sentry) receives no message content, photos, or profile content — crash reports contain stack traces and device information, plus your account ID only if you've opted into analytics.

No system is perfectly secure. We work hard to protect your information; please use a strong, unique password and tell us right away at privacy@solmeera.com if you believe your account has been accessed without your permission.

10. Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time — to reflect new features, new service providers, or changes in the law.

When we make material changes, we will:

• Update the Effective Date at the top of the policy.
• Show you a summary of what changed and ask you to accept the new version the next time you open the app.

The current version is dated Effective August 9, 2026. If you have questions about how an earlier version applied to your account, email privacy@solmeera.com.

Solmeera LLC · 82 Wendell Avenue, Suite 100 · Pittsfield, MA 01201 · privacy@solmeera.com